Monday, May 28, 2012

Exploring the Digital Landscape: Works by Carl Hoffner

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Carl Hoffner's artwork surrounds the viewer in a cacophony of color. His contemporary landscapes of the Central New York region vibrate with intense color. Says Hoffner, "In my work I explore the inherent abstractions and extraordinary color within Upstate New York’s wealth of natural beauty."

While Hoffner also works in traditional lithograph, the work being exhibited here is part of his digital portfolio. Hoffner uses the computer paired with a Wacom tablet, and Corel painter software to draw and paint directly on the computer. Hoffner explains, "I have found this to be a liberating artistic experience bringing back the play in my art as well as offering a chance to re-explore my passion for painting and color." The completed digital paintings are produced in limited editions using giclee inkjet printing technology.

Hoffner received his MFA from Syracuse University and a BFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art. He taught in the art department of OCC in the 1980s. His work is in collections in the United States and abroad including galleries in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Europe, United Kingdom, and Australia. Hoffner currently resides in Fayetteville, NY.

Larry Hoyt: Painting, Photgraphy, and Drawings
Westcott Community Art Gallery

Price: Free
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

For the Child in All of Us
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

A new collection of crafts made for children.

Pastoral: Landscape Photos by Alexander Gronsky
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Alexander Gronsky is a self-described landscape photographer with an uncanny ability to capture scenes in nature as elegant allegories that include rolling hills, spectacular lighting, and far reaching horizons. His skilled use of perspective and composition, reminiscent of centuries-old traditions in European landscape painting, draw the viewer's eye deep into the landscape and generate a sense of awe for each place. The photographs in this exhibit were taken along the outlying areas of Moscow where the human need to find solace away from the city collides with urban sprawl, and the fragility of nature.

Wounding the Black Male
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition was curated by English Professor Cassandra Jackson and Gallery Director Sarah Cunningham, both from The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). The exhibition was on view in the TCNJ Art Gallery in 2011. The central ideas of the exhibit are rooted in Jackson's most recent book, Violence, Visual Culture, and the Black Male Body (Routledge, 2010). Her book deals with the ways in which the black male body has been visually exploited, and the ways in which contemporary artists have called into question the paradigmatic construction of the black body in American society. The exhibit displays 31 photographs by 19 contemporary artists of African descent, 17 from the United States, two from Britain. Their work comments on the various representations of black bodies in Western visual culture. These artists confront stereotypes about black male appearance, sexuality, violence, and family, and highlight the ways that visual culture has contributed to the marginalization and exclusion of the black community.

Mission Modern: The Paintings of Darryl Hughto
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

This show seamlessly juxtaposes Darryl Hughto's contemporary land and seascape paintings with Dalton's Mission-era furnishings. Hughto's recent paintings are a continuation into the 21st century of a feeling for man in and of the land in the American painting tradition. The show reveals the ongoing nature of American art and culture from past to present.

Garden Art in Glass & Clay
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Stained glass garden art by Liz and Rich Micho
Carved stoneware lanterns by Lauren Ritchie

For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created "For Syracuse" as a site-specific installation that streams across the facade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms, and Survival" that challenge viewer's assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses, or lamenting the struggles of daily living Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed Truisms on one of Time Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her Survival Series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Exploring the Digital Landscape: Works by Carl Hoffner

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Carl Hoffner's artwork surrounds the viewer in a cacophony of color. His contemporary landscapes of the Central New York region vibrate with intense color. Says Hoffner, "In my work I explore the inherent abstractions and extraordinary color within Upstate New York’s wealth of natural beauty."

While Hoffner also works in traditional lithograph, the work being exhibited here is part of his digital portfolio. Hoffner uses the computer paired with a Wacom tablet, and Corel painter software to draw and paint directly on the computer. Hoffner explains, "I have found this to be a liberating artistic experience bringing back the play in my art as well as offering a chance to re-explore my passion for painting and color." The completed digital paintings are produced in limited editions using giclee inkjet printing technology.

Hoffner received his MFA from Syracuse University and a BFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art. He taught in the art department of OCC in the 1980s. His work is in collections in the United States and abroad including galleries in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Europe, United Kingdom, and Australia. Hoffner currently resides in Fayetteville, NY.

The Power and The Piety: The World of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibit, curated by History Professor Chris Kyle with Senior Director of Special Collections Sean Quimby, showcases the library's collection of illuminated manuscripts and early printed works, including a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible.

The title "The Power and The Piety," refers to extraordinary influence that secular monarchies and the Church had on the lives of everyday men and women. Richly illustrated late medieval psalters and books of hours exemplify the painstaking attention that the pious paid to their spiritual well-being. But the printing revolution made it possible for new ideas to spread more rapidly. Printed works like Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" (1651) signified the increasing power wielded by kings, queens and other secular authorities. As the Protestant Reformation and Scientific Revolution took hold of Europe, the power of the Catholic Church further waned. "The Power and the Piety" includes such important works as the first King James Bible (1611) and a second printing of Copernicus' "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" (1566), which argued in favor of a heliocentric, or sun-centered, universe.

The exhibition is arranged thematically, highlighting the overarching themes of power and piety, as well as English literature, music, architecture, science and fine bindings.

Larry Hoyt: Painting, Photgraphy, and Drawings
Westcott Community Art Gallery

Price: Free
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Structure and Space
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Chris Baker: gouache landscape and cityscape paintings
David Webster: ceramics
Jen Palmer: metal and stone jewelry
Richard Henry: oil and watercolor rural landscape paintings

For the Child in All of Us
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

A new collection of crafts made for children.

Wounding the Black Male
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition was curated by English Professor Cassandra Jackson and Gallery Director Sarah Cunningham, both from The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). The exhibition was on view in the TCNJ Art Gallery in 2011. The central ideas of the exhibit are rooted in Jackson's most recent book, Violence, Visual Culture, and the Black Male Body (Routledge, 2010). Her book deals with the ways in which the black male body has been visually exploited, and the ways in which contemporary artists have called into question the paradigmatic construction of the black body in American society. The exhibit displays 31 photographs by 19 contemporary artists of African descent, 17 from the United States, two from Britain. Their work comments on the various representations of black bodies in Western visual culture. These artists confront stereotypes about black male appearance, sexuality, violence, and family, and highlight the ways that visual culture has contributed to the marginalization and exclusion of the black community.

Pastoral: Landscape Photos by Alexander Gronsky
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Alexander Gronsky is a self-described landscape photographer with an uncanny ability to capture scenes in nature as elegant allegories that include rolling hills, spectacular lighting, and far reaching horizons. His skilled use of perspective and composition, reminiscent of centuries-old traditions in European landscape painting, draw the viewer's eye deep into the landscape and generate a sense of awe for each place. The photographs in this exhibit were taken along the outlying areas of Moscow where the human need to find solace away from the city collides with urban sprawl, and the fragility of nature.

Mission Modern: The Paintings of Darryl Hughto
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

This show seamlessly juxtaposes Darryl Hughto's contemporary land and seascape paintings with Dalton's Mission-era furnishings. Hughto's recent paintings are a continuation into the 21st century of a feeling for man in and of the land in the American painting tradition. The show reveals the ongoing nature of American art and culture from past to present.

Garden Art in Glass & Clay
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Stained glass garden art by Liz and Rich Micho
Carved stoneware lanterns by Lauren Ritchie

Living Collections
Echo

745 N. Salina St. (formerly Craft Chemistry)
Syracuse

A series of paintings portraying children's collections in unusual environments by Pennsylvania artist, Elody Gyekis.

For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created "For Syracuse" as a site-specific installation that streams across the facade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms, and Survival" that challenge viewer's assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses, or lamenting the struggles of daily living Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed Truisms on one of Time Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her Survival Series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

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Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Exploring the Digital Landscape: Works by Carl Hoffner

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Carl Hoffner's artwork surrounds the viewer in a cacophony of color. His contemporary landscapes of the Central New York region vibrate with intense color. Says Hoffner, "In my work I explore the inherent abstractions and extraordinary color within Upstate New York’s wealth of natural beauty."

While Hoffner also works in traditional lithograph, the work being exhibited here is part of his digital portfolio. Hoffner uses the computer paired with a Wacom tablet, and Corel painter software to draw and paint directly on the computer. Hoffner explains, "I have found this to be a liberating artistic experience bringing back the play in my art as well as offering a chance to re-explore my passion for painting and color." The completed digital paintings are produced in limited editions using giclee inkjet printing technology.

Hoffner received his MFA from Syracuse University and a BFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art. He taught in the art department of OCC in the 1980s. His work is in collections in the United States and abroad including galleries in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Europe, United Kingdom, and Australia. Hoffner currently resides in Fayetteville, NY.

The Power and The Piety: The World of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibit, curated by History Professor Chris Kyle with Senior Director of Special Collections Sean Quimby, showcases the library's collection of illuminated manuscripts and early printed works, including a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible.

The title "The Power and The Piety," refers to extraordinary influence that secular monarchies and the Church had on the lives of everyday men and women. Richly illustrated late medieval psalters and books of hours exemplify the painstaking attention that the pious paid to their spiritual well-being. But the printing revolution made it possible for new ideas to spread more rapidly. Printed works like Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" (1651) signified the increasing power wielded by kings, queens and other secular authorities. As the Protestant Reformation and Scientific Revolution took hold of Europe, the power of the Catholic Church further waned. "The Power and the Piety" includes such important works as the first King James Bible (1611) and a second printing of Copernicus' "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" (1566), which argued in favor of a heliocentric, or sun-centered, universe.

The exhibition is arranged thematically, highlighting the overarching themes of power and piety, as well as English literature, music, architecture, science and fine bindings.

Larry Hoyt: Painting, Photgraphy, and Drawings
Westcott Community Art Gallery

Price: Free
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Structure and Space
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Chris Baker: gouache landscape and cityscape paintings
David Webster: ceramics
Jen Palmer: metal and stone jewelry
Richard Henry: oil and watercolor rural landscape paintings

For the Child in All of Us
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

A new collection of crafts made for children.

Pastoral: Landscape Photos by Alexander Gronsky
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Alexander Gronsky is a self-described landscape photographer with an uncanny ability to capture scenes in nature as elegant allegories that include rolling hills, spectacular lighting, and far reaching horizons. His skilled use of perspective and composition, reminiscent of centuries-old traditions in European landscape painting, draw the viewer's eye deep into the landscape and generate a sense of awe for each place. The photographs in this exhibit were taken along the outlying areas of Moscow where the human need to find solace away from the city collides with urban sprawl, and the fragility of nature.

Wounding the Black Male
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition was curated by English Professor Cassandra Jackson and Gallery Director Sarah Cunningham, both from The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). The exhibition was on view in the TCNJ Art Gallery in 2011. The central ideas of the exhibit are rooted in Jackson's most recent book, Violence, Visual Culture, and the Black Male Body (Routledge, 2010). Her book deals with the ways in which the black male body has been visually exploited, and the ways in which contemporary artists have called into question the paradigmatic construction of the black body in American society. The exhibit displays 31 photographs by 19 contemporary artists of African descent, 17 from the United States, two from Britain. Their work comments on the various representations of black bodies in Western visual culture. These artists confront stereotypes about black male appearance, sexuality, violence, and family, and highlight the ways that visual culture has contributed to the marginalization and exclusion of the black community.

Mission Modern: The Paintings of Darryl Hughto
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

This show seamlessly juxtaposes Darryl Hughto's contemporary land and seascape paintings with Dalton's Mission-era furnishings. Hughto's recent paintings are a continuation into the 21st century of a feeling for man in and of the land in the American painting tradition. The show reveals the ongoing nature of American art and culture from past to present.

Take No Prisoners: Political Cartoons Over Time and Place
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Three well-known Central New York political cartoonists, Joe Glisson, Tim Atseff, and Frank Cammuso, are the featured cartoonists for an exhibition entitled "Take No Prisoners: Political Cartoons Over Time and Place." With insightful humor, these artists and their historic predecessors produced a wide variety of editorial cartoons that illustrated important issues of their time. Starting with cartoons from the Civil War era through the present day, "Take No Prisoners" is an opportunity to experience historic subjects as the current events they once were, and to see how election issues of the past compare with those of the present-day.

Timeless Imagery: Associated Artists of CNY's 85th Anniversary Exhibition
Onondaga Historical Association
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Since 1927, Associated Artists has sought to bring together the best artists and their art for the benefit of the central New York community. The exhibit at OHA will showcase 85 years of juried arts competition winning entries from regional artists. "Timeless Imagery" is an opportunity to observe in one gallery the history of Central New York's changing art scene.

Melding Time and Process: Works by Richard Harvey
Redhouse

Price: Free
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Exploring the psychological and emotive potential of the human face, Harvey creates figurative art inspired by a diverse range of art historical influences including Byzantine iconography, African sculpture, and Expressionist painting. Elements of typography, signage and graffiti reflect his background in graphic design.

Ekphrasis: A Marriage of Literary and Visual Arts
Szozda Gallery
CNY Pen Women

Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"Ekphrasis" combines literary and visual arts with special related events showcasing the esteemed works of Central New York Pen Women, local chapter of The National League of American Pen Women, Inc.

Chair for this year's Annual Pen Women's show is artist Yolanda Tooley who defines the name chosen as a "rhetorical device in which one medium of art relates to another medium." Included in the visual part of "Ekphrasis" are about 32 pieces rendered by 16 artists, and writings by eight poets whose works are framed for hanging, bringing the total wall pieces to around 40. Rachael Ikins coordinated the "Ekphrasis" readings.

Pen Women visual artists included in "Ekphrasis" are Jacqueline Adamo, Joan Applebaum, Sallie Bailey, Linda Bigness-Lanigan, Evelyn Dankovich, Jeanne Dupre, Joy Englehart, Roscha Folger, Marilyn Forth, Diana Godfrey, Wendy Harris, Mary Kester, Karen Kozicki, Mary Raineri, Joan Steir and Yolanda Tooley.

Pen Women letters/writers/poets are Sheila Byrnes, Janet Fagal, Mary Gardner, Rachael Ikins, Georgia Popoff, Nancy Keefe Rhodes, Bobbie Panek and Lorraine Arsenault.

Garden Art in Glass & Clay
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Stained glass garden art by Liz and Rich Micho
Carved stoneware lanterns by Lauren Ritchie

Living Collections
Echo

745 N. Salina St. (formerly Craft Chemistry)
Syracuse

A series of paintings portraying children's collections in unusual environments by Pennsylvania artist, Elody Gyekis.

For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created "For Syracuse" as a site-specific installation that streams across the facade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms, and Survival" that challenge viewer's assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses, or lamenting the struggles of daily living Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed Truisms on one of Time Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her Survival Series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

Thursday, May 31, 2012

Exploring the Digital Landscape: Works by Carl Hoffner

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Carl Hoffner's artwork surrounds the viewer in a cacophony of color. His contemporary landscapes of the Central New York region vibrate with intense color. Says Hoffner, "In my work I explore the inherent abstractions and extraordinary color within Upstate New York’s wealth of natural beauty."

While Hoffner also works in traditional lithograph, the work being exhibited here is part of his digital portfolio. Hoffner uses the computer paired with a Wacom tablet, and Corel painter software to draw and paint directly on the computer. Hoffner explains, "I have found this to be a liberating artistic experience bringing back the play in my art as well as offering a chance to re-explore my passion for painting and color." The completed digital paintings are produced in limited editions using giclee inkjet printing technology.

Hoffner received his MFA from Syracuse University and a BFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art. He taught in the art department of OCC in the 1980s. His work is in collections in the United States and abroad including galleries in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Europe, United Kingdom, and Australia. Hoffner currently resides in Fayetteville, NY.

The Power and The Piety: The World of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibit, curated by History Professor Chris Kyle with Senior Director of Special Collections Sean Quimby, showcases the library's collection of illuminated manuscripts and early printed works, including a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible.

The title "The Power and The Piety," refers to extraordinary influence that secular monarchies and the Church had on the lives of everyday men and women. Richly illustrated late medieval psalters and books of hours exemplify the painstaking attention that the pious paid to their spiritual well-being. But the printing revolution made it possible for new ideas to spread more rapidly. Printed works like Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" (1651) signified the increasing power wielded by kings, queens and other secular authorities. As the Protestant Reformation and Scientific Revolution took hold of Europe, the power of the Catholic Church further waned. "The Power and the Piety" includes such important works as the first King James Bible (1611) and a second printing of Copernicus' "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" (1566), which argued in favor of a heliocentric, or sun-centered, universe.

The exhibition is arranged thematically, highlighting the overarching themes of power and piety, as well as English literature, music, architecture, science and fine bindings.

Larry Hoyt: Painting, Photgraphy, and Drawings
Westcott Community Art Gallery

Price: Free
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Structure and Space
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Chris Baker: gouache landscape and cityscape paintings
David Webster: ceramics
Jen Palmer: metal and stone jewelry
Richard Henry: oil and watercolor rural landscape paintings

For the Child in All of Us
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

A new collection of crafts made for children.

Wounding the Black Male
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition was curated by English Professor Cassandra Jackson and Gallery Director Sarah Cunningham, both from The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). The exhibition was on view in the TCNJ Art Gallery in 2011. The central ideas of the exhibit are rooted in Jackson's most recent book, Violence, Visual Culture, and the Black Male Body (Routledge, 2010). Her book deals with the ways in which the black male body has been visually exploited, and the ways in which contemporary artists have called into question the paradigmatic construction of the black body in American society. The exhibit displays 31 photographs by 19 contemporary artists of African descent, 17 from the United States, two from Britain. Their work comments on the various representations of black bodies in Western visual culture. These artists confront stereotypes about black male appearance, sexuality, violence, and family, and highlight the ways that visual culture has contributed to the marginalization and exclusion of the black community.

Pastoral: Landscape Photos by Alexander Gronsky
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Alexander Gronsky is a self-described landscape photographer with an uncanny ability to capture scenes in nature as elegant allegories that include rolling hills, spectacular lighting, and far reaching horizons. His skilled use of perspective and composition, reminiscent of centuries-old traditions in European landscape painting, draw the viewer's eye deep into the landscape and generate a sense of awe for each place. The photographs in this exhibit were taken along the outlying areas of Moscow where the human need to find solace away from the city collides with urban sprawl, and the fragility of nature.

Mission Modern: The Paintings of Darryl Hughto
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

This show seamlessly juxtaposes Darryl Hughto's contemporary land and seascape paintings with Dalton's Mission-era furnishings. Hughto's recent paintings are a continuation into the 21st century of a feeling for man in and of the land in the American painting tradition. The show reveals the ongoing nature of American art and culture from past to present.

Timeless Imagery: Associated Artists of CNY's 85th Anniversary Exhibition
Onondaga Historical Association
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Since 1927, Associated Artists has sought to bring together the best artists and their art for the benefit of the central New York community. The exhibit at OHA will showcase 85 years of juried arts competition winning entries from regional artists. "Timeless Imagery" is an opportunity to observe in one gallery the history of Central New York's changing art scene.

Take No Prisoners: Political Cartoons Over Time and Place
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Three well-known Central New York political cartoonists, Joe Glisson, Tim Atseff, and Frank Cammuso, are the featured cartoonists for an exhibition entitled "Take No Prisoners: Political Cartoons Over Time and Place." With insightful humor, these artists and their historic predecessors produced a wide variety of editorial cartoons that illustrated important issues of their time. Starting with cartoons from the Civil War era through the present day, "Take No Prisoners" is an opportunity to experience historic subjects as the current events they once were, and to see how election issues of the past compare with those of the present-day.

Melding Time and Process: Works by Richard Harvey
Redhouse

Price: Free
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Exploring the psychological and emotive potential of the human face, Harvey creates figurative art inspired by a diverse range of art historical influences including Byzantine iconography, African sculpture, and Expressionist painting. Elements of typography, signage and graffiti reflect his background in graphic design.

Ekphrasis: A Marriage of Literary and Visual Arts
Szozda Gallery
CNY Pen Women

Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"Ekphrasis" combines literary and visual arts with special related events showcasing the esteemed works of Central New York Pen Women, local chapter of The National League of American Pen Women, Inc.

Chair for this year's Annual Pen Women's show is artist Yolanda Tooley who defines the name chosen as a "rhetorical device in which one medium of art relates to another medium." Included in the visual part of "Ekphrasis" are about 32 pieces rendered by 16 artists, and writings by eight poets whose works are framed for hanging, bringing the total wall pieces to around 40. Rachael Ikins coordinated the "Ekphrasis" readings.

Pen Women visual artists included in "Ekphrasis" are Jacqueline Adamo, Joan Applebaum, Sallie Bailey, Linda Bigness-Lanigan, Evelyn Dankovich, Jeanne Dupre, Joy Englehart, Roscha Folger, Marilyn Forth, Diana Godfrey, Wendy Harris, Mary Kester, Karen Kozicki, Mary Raineri, Joan Steir and Yolanda Tooley.

Pen Women letters/writers/poets are Sheila Byrnes, Janet Fagal, Mary Gardner, Rachael Ikins, Georgia Popoff, Nancy Keefe Rhodes, Bobbie Panek and Lorraine Arsenault.

Garden Art in Glass & Clay
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Stained glass garden art by Liz and Rich Micho
Carved stoneware lanterns by Lauren Ritchie

Flower Power
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

"Flower Power" presents an eclectic mix of styles and art media. This group exhibition celebrates the beauty of flowers and the vessels used to contain them. The show includes photography, wood, sculpture, fiber art, and ceramics. Participating artists include Justin Campbell, Suzanne Fluty, Jen Gandee, Bob Gates, Mary Giehl, Vicki Hartman, Dave LoParco, Colleen McCall, Kate Money, Melissa Montgomery, Brooks Oliver, Kala Stein, Dan Tracy, Jeanann Wieners, Pualani Wiley, and Errol Willett.

Celebrating 90 Years of Design at Syracuse University
XL Projects

Price: Free
XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

An exhibition of work by current students in the environmental and interior design and industrial and interaction design programs in the Department of Design. The programs are celebrating their 90th anniversaries.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours or email Andrew Havenhand, ahavenhand@yahoo.com.

Living Collections
Echo

745 N. Salina St. (formerly Craft Chemistry)
Syracuse

A series of paintings portraying children's collections in unusual environments by Pennsylvania artist, Elody Gyekis.

For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created "For Syracuse" as a site-specific installation that streams across the facade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms, and Survival" that challenge viewer's assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses, or lamenting the struggles of daily living Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed Truisms on one of Time Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her Survival Series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

An Evening with Ken Rudin, NPR's Political Junkie
WRVO

Price: $20, $15
Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Rudin will be talking with Grant Reeher of WRVO-FM and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.

Salt City Poetry Slam
ArtRage Gallery
Underground Poetry Spot

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Seneca Wilson and Mozart Guerrier from the Underground Poetry Spot host the Salt City Slam series.
Tonight's featured performer is Arthur Flowers, Syracuse University professor, award winning writer, griot, and performance poet. Flowers is guaranteed to give an electrifying performance!

Slammers and judges will be chosen at random each night. Competitors will have three minutes and two rounds to impress crowds and judges by earning scores for their performances.

For more information, contact Mozart Guerrier, Salt City Slams Project Manager, slamsaltcity@gmail.com or visit Underground Poetry Spot's website.

A Tomb With a View
Acme Mystery Company

Price: $32.50 (includes meal, show, tax and gratuities)
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

The mega-corporation Arrested Developments has come to the old Possum Estate, site of the tragic mining disaster oh, so many years ago, with the desire to turn it into a shopping mall. This has caused great concern among those living on (and below) the estate. In fact, the zombie descendants of the miners trapped in the disaster have hired a lawyer and are planning a class-action lawsuit. The local newspaper is going to have a field day with this one. Gather around, good townsfolk (and walking dead) you don't want to be ate, er, late.

John & Jen
Redhouse
Stephen Svoboda, director

Price: $25 regular, $15 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Just in time for Memorial Day weekend, pay tribute to our brave soldiers and their courageous families with this award-winning musical. Follow the story of Jen and her relationships with the two Johns of her life: her younger brother, who was killed in Vietnam, and his namesake, her son, who is trying to find his way in a confusing world. With a cast of only two people, John & Jen is a tour-de-force for two actors who travel from childhood through adolescence and beyond. Join us for a magical night exploring connections, commitments, and the healing of the human heart.

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Friday, June 1, 2012

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

Exploring the Digital Landscape: Works by Carl Hoffner

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Carl Hoffner's artwork surrounds the viewer in a cacophony of color. His contemporary landscapes of the Central New York region vibrate with intense color. Says Hoffner, "In my work I explore the inherent abstractions and extraordinary color within Upstate New York’s wealth of natural beauty."

While Hoffner also works in traditional lithograph, the work being exhibited here is part of his digital portfolio. Hoffner uses the computer paired with a Wacom tablet, and Corel painter software to draw and paint directly on the computer. Hoffner explains, "I have found this to be a liberating artistic experience bringing back the play in my art as well as offering a chance to re-explore my passion for painting and color." The completed digital paintings are produced in limited editions using giclee inkjet printing technology.

Hoffner received his MFA from Syracuse University and a BFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art. He taught in the art department of OCC in the 1980s. His work is in collections in the United States and abroad including galleries in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Europe, United Kingdom, and Australia. Hoffner currently resides in Fayetteville, NY.

The Power and The Piety: The World of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibit, curated by History Professor Chris Kyle with Senior Director of Special Collections Sean Quimby, showcases the library's collection of illuminated manuscripts and early printed works, including a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible.

The title "The Power and The Piety," refers to extraordinary influence that secular monarchies and the Church had on the lives of everyday men and women. Richly illustrated late medieval psalters and books of hours exemplify the painstaking attention that the pious paid to their spiritual well-being. But the printing revolution made it possible for new ideas to spread more rapidly. Printed works like Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" (1651) signified the increasing power wielded by kings, queens and other secular authorities. As the Protestant Reformation and Scientific Revolution took hold of Europe, the power of the Catholic Church further waned. "The Power and the Piety" includes such important works as the first King James Bible (1611) and a second printing of Copernicus' "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" (1566), which argued in favor of a heliocentric, or sun-centered, universe.

The exhibition is arranged thematically, highlighting the overarching themes of power and piety, as well as English literature, music, architecture, science and fine bindings.

Larry Hoyt: Painting, Photgraphy, and Drawings
Westcott Community Art Gallery

Price: Free
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Structure and Space
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Chris Baker: gouache landscape and cityscape paintings
David Webster: ceramics
Jen Palmer: metal and stone jewelry
Richard Henry: oil and watercolor rural landscape paintings

The Locks of the New York State Canal System
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Pen and ink drawings of artist Ray Sax will be on display. The 57 drawings were created by Sax over a four year period that began in 1988 with a picnic to Lock 24 in Baldwinsville with his wife Betty. Enjoying the experience, they kept going from one lock to the next, Ray drawing each one.

The exhibition of these drawings will bring new attention to the beauty and engineering of Barge Canal structures. Visitors to the exhibit will be reminded that the Erie Canal is not merely a thing of the past, but a remarkable body of water that connects east and west.

Opening: Form and Landscape: New Work by Jeremy Randall
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

There will be an opening reception 6:00-9:00 pm, as part of Skaneateles' First Friday celebration. Entertainment will be provided by the Usual Suspects, an old-time string band.

This exhibition marks the first time that Jeremy Randall's architectural ceramic vessels will be paired with his landscape drawings.

Randall's work was recently selected for inclusion in a November show at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He also has exhibited this year at Craftboston Spring, Baltimore Clayworks, the Paradise City Arts Festival in Northampton, MA, and Studio 550 in Nashua, NH. Altogether, his works have been shown in more than 60 exhibitions nationwide; images have appeared in Ceramic Arts Daily, Clay Times, Ceramic Review, Stone Canoe, and "500 Vases" and "500 Cups" (Lark Books).

Randall uses color to elevate forms to be celebrated, while conjuring the nostalgia for something old that is still recognized today. His drawings combine graphite and acrylic paint on panel. The colors relate to his ceramic work, and lend a soft energy to the landscape being referenced.

Randall, recognized by Ceramics Monthly as an Emerging Artist for 2009, is digital imaging/web specialist and head of installations at Imagine, studio manager and visiting professor of art at Cazenovia College, and adjunct professor of ceramics at Syracuse University, his alma mater.

His work is held in the permanent collection of the Southern Illinois University Museum and the private Meyerhoff Collection in Baltimore. In addition to Imagine and Gandee Gallery locally, he is represented by galleries in Montana, Ohio, Georgia and Massachusetts.

Mission Modern: The Paintings of Darryl Hughto
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

This show seamlessly juxtaposes Darryl Hughto's contemporary land and seascape paintings with Dalton's Mission-era furnishings. Hughto's recent paintings are a continuation into the 21st century of a feeling for man in and of the land in the American painting tradition. The show reveals the ongoing nature of American art and culture from past to present.

Take No Prisoners: Political Cartoons Over Time and Place
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Three well-known Central New York political cartoonists, Joe Glisson, Tim Atseff, and Frank Cammuso, are the featured cartoonists for an exhibition entitled "Take No Prisoners: Political Cartoons Over Time and Place." With insightful humor, these artists and their historic predecessors produced a wide variety of editorial cartoons that illustrated important issues of their time. Starting with cartoons from the Civil War era through the present day, "Take No Prisoners" is an opportunity to experience historic subjects as the current events they once were, and to see how election issues of the past compare with those of the present-day.

Timeless Imagery: Associated Artists of CNY's 85th Anniversary Exhibition
Onondaga Historical Association
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Since 1927, Associated Artists has sought to bring together the best artists and their art for the benefit of the central New York community. The exhibit at OHA will showcase 85 years of juried arts competition winning entries from regional artists. "Timeless Imagery" is an opportunity to observe in one gallery the history of Central New York's changing art scene.

Melding Time and Process: Works by Richard Harvey
Redhouse

Price: Free
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Exploring the psychological and emotive potential of the human face, Harvey creates figurative art inspired by a diverse range of art historical influences including Byzantine iconography, African sculpture, and Expressionist painting. Elements of typography, signage and graffiti reflect his background in graphic design.

Ekphrasis: A Marriage of Literary and Visual Arts
Szozda Gallery
CNY Pen Women

Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"Ekphrasis" combines literary and visual arts with special related events showcasing the esteemed works of Central New York Pen Women, local chapter of The National League of American Pen Women, Inc.

Chair for this year's Annual Pen Women's show is artist Yolanda Tooley who defines the name chosen as a "rhetorical device in which one medium of art relates to another medium." Included in the visual part of "Ekphrasis" are about 32 pieces rendered by 16 artists, and writings by eight poets whose works are framed for hanging, bringing the total wall pieces to around 40. Rachael Ikins coordinated the "Ekphrasis" readings.

Pen Women visual artists included in "Ekphrasis" are Jacqueline Adamo, Joan Applebaum, Sallie Bailey, Linda Bigness-Lanigan, Evelyn Dankovich, Jeanne Dupre, Joy Englehart, Roscha Folger, Marilyn Forth, Diana Godfrey, Wendy Harris, Mary Kester, Karen Kozicki, Mary Raineri, Joan Steir and Yolanda Tooley.

Pen Women letters/writers/poets are Sheila Byrnes, Janet Fagal, Mary Gardner, Rachael Ikins, Georgia Popoff, Nancy Keefe Rhodes, Bobbie Panek and Lorraine Arsenault.

Opening: Shaker Boxes: Works by Fred Weisskopf
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

There will be an opening reception this evening 6:00-9:00 pm, as part of the village's First Friday celebration. Meet the artist, listen to Chris Molloy and his electric blue harp, and enjoy refreshments.

As this month's featured artist, Fred has made a special selection of shaker boxes. There will also be a display showing steps involved in the making of traditional shaker boxes.

Flower Power
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

"Flower Power" presents an eclectic mix of styles and art media. This group exhibition celebrates the beauty of flowers and the vessels used to contain them. The show includes photography, wood, sculpture, fiber art, and ceramics. Participating artists include Justin Campbell, Suzanne Fluty, Jen Gandee, Bob Gates, Mary Giehl, Vicki Hartman, Dave LoParco, Colleen McCall, Kate Money, Melissa Montgomery, Brooks Oliver, Kala Stein, Dan Tracy, Jeanann Wieners, Pualani Wiley, and Errol Willett.

Celebrating 90 Years of Design at Syracuse University
XL Projects

Price: Free
XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

An exhibition of work by current students in the environmental and interior design and industrial and interaction design programs in the Department of Design. The programs are celebrating their 90th anniversaries.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours or email Andrew Havenhand, ahavenhand@yahoo.com.

Living Collections
Echo

745 N. Salina St. (formerly Craft Chemistry)
Syracuse

A series of paintings portraying children's collections in unusual environments by Pennsylvania artist, Elody Gyekis.

Opening Reception: Julie Blackmon: Other Tales from Home
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Authentic and dysfunctional, Julie Blackmon's photographs of family life strike a resonating chord in both children and adult viewers. Boys and girls run free in the backyard or the living room among scattered toys while preoccupied grown-ups hover on the edges. Inspired by humorous 17th-century Dutch paintings and her own childhood as the eldest of nine, Blackmon digitally reconstructs scenes of family life with humor and an eye for the underlying chaos. The exhibition contains selections from her past series, Domestic Vacations, along with photographs from her latest body of work.

Opening Reception: People, Place and Progress: Local Landscapes in Paint and Print
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, free for OHA and Everson members
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In a partnership between the Everson Museum of Art and the Onondaga Historical Association, this exhibit will include paintings from the collections of both institutions. The works will feature local historical scenes such as views of the Erie Canal, rural vistas, area waterfalls and gorges, plus local architectural landmarks, former breweries, stagecoach inns and sections of downtown Syracuse.

The exhibition will also pair the paintings with historic photos and prints, documenting either the particular image or the actual historic landscape that inspired the artists. The works will explore how the artist chose to interpret that Central New York setting and why those places help shape our regional identity.

For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created "For Syracuse" as a site-specific installation that streams across the facade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms, and Survival" that challenge viewer's assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses, or lamenting the struggles of daily living Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed Truisms on one of Time Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her Survival Series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

Fun Before We Run
Syracuse Improv Collective

Price: $5 minimum donation
The Vault
451 S. Warren St., Syracuse

The Syracuse Improv Collective presents Fun Before We Run, an improv and music show to benefit Paige's Butterfly Run. All proceeds will sponsor Team Awesome People! which will participate in the run the next day. Paige's Butterfly Run supports Golisano Children's Hospital.

Order of Appearance:
Satan's Closet: SIC Founders and sick minds
Colin Aberdeen: One dude doing an acoustic set
Uncle Lina: All women improv troupe from Rochester
Fugulele: All-ukulele, Fugazi cover band
Oregon Fail: SIC Founders and not quite as sick minds
ToTs!! He's Crispy on the Mic

Local artists Frank West and Meghan Hickox-Grant will be drawing throughout the night, gathering inspiration from the show.

Taste of Syracuse

Price: Free
Clinton Square
Downtown, Syracuse

Two days of food and music in downtown Syracuse. For more information, visit www.tasteofsyracuse.com.

MAIN STAGE
12:00 pm: Blake
1:45 pm: Andrew and Noah VanNorstrand Band
3:45 pm: Trademark
5:00 pm: Showtime
6:30 pm: Gridley Paige
8:15 pm: Kane
9:30 pm: Under The Gun

CLINTON SQUARE STAGE
12:00 pm: Just Joe
1:45 pm: Corey Paige
3:00 pm: Liz Strodel
4:00 pm: Andrew Greacen
5:30 pm: South Bay
6:45 pm: Radio Fever
8:00 pm: Candid
9:30 pm: Prime Time

ERIE BLVD. STAGE
12:00 pm: Kim Monroe and Chris Eves
4:15 pm: Mike McKay Duo
5:30 pm: Hobo Graffiti
6:45 pm: Driftwood
8:15 pm: Sophistafunk
9:45 pm: The Goonies

Jazz@Sitrus
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Featuring SOHO Trio with Marcia Rutledge

Sitrus on the Hill
Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel, Syracuse

John Cadley, Cathy Wenthen, and John Dancks

Price: $10
Eve Galleria
6456 Collamer Rd., East Syracuse

Unsung Broadway
Appleseed Productions

Price: $5
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Come enjoy an evening of music never or rarely heard. Songs include those cut from popular musicals such as Guys & Dolls, Fiddler on the Roof, On the Town, and Once on this Island. Shows not yet (or never to be) on Broadway include Whistle Down the Wind and Love Never Dies (the Phantom of the Opera sequel). Appleseed presented editions of this series in the late 90s and early 2000s, to enthusiastic audience response.

Singers to include Marguerite Beebe, Marlina Beebe, Kathy Egloff, Lanny Freshman, Michele Lindor, Beth Ferrera Spencer, and Gary Stensland. A special appearance will be made by Dan Williams.

The concert is directed by Kathryn Gaetz Woods, with accompaniment by Rob Mossotti on piano and Kinyatta King on drums.

Bunked!
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

Price: $25
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Bunked!: A New Musical is a comedic coming of age story of five summer camp counselors, three male and two female, during the pivotal summer before the beginning of college. With easily relatable characters that are experiencing their first taste of independence, Bunked! taps into the uncertainty of trying to find yourself while forging your first adult relationships.

Exploring themes of sexual orientation, first loves, and growing up, the show asks the fundamental questions "who am I?, "where do I belong?" and "how do I make a name for myself?" in a manner that is both humorous and poignant. Winner of the New York International Fringe Festival's "Best Overall Production of a Musical." Book and Lyrics by Alaina Kunin; music, book, lyrics by Bradford Proctor; musical director Chris Widomski.

This show is intended for mature audiences only.

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John & Jen
Redhouse
Stephen Svoboda, director

Price: $25 regular, $15 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Just in time for Memorial Day weekend, pay tribute to our brave soldiers and their courageous families with this award-winning musical. Follow the story of Jen and her relationships with the two Johns of her life: her younger brother, who was killed in Vietnam, and his namesake, her son, who is trying to find his way in a confusing world. With a cast of only two people, John & Jen is a tour-de-force for two actors who travel from childhood through adolescence and beyond. Join us for a magical night exploring connections, commitments, and the healing of the human heart.

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Saturday, June 2, 2012

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

Structure and Space
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Chris Baker: gouache landscape and cityscape paintings
David Webster: ceramics
Jen Palmer: metal and stone jewelry
Richard Henry: oil and watercolor rural landscape paintings

The Locks of the New York State Canal System
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Pen and ink drawings of artist Ray Sax will be on display. The 57 drawings were created by Sax over a four year period that began in 1988 with a picnic to Lock 24 in Baldwinsville with his wife Betty. Enjoying the experience, they kept going from one lock to the next, Ray drawing each one.

The exhibition of these drawings will bring new attention to the beauty and engineering of Barge Canal structures. Visitors to the exhibit will be reminded that the Erie Canal is not merely a thing of the past, but a remarkable body of water that connects east and west.

People, Place and Progress: Local Landscapes in Paint and Print
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $5 suggested donation
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In a partnership between the Everson Museum of Art and the Onondaga Historical Association, this exhibit will include paintings from the collections of both institutions. The works will feature local historical scenes such as views of the Erie Canal, rural vistas, area waterfalls and gorges, plus local architectural landmarks, former breweries, stagecoach inns and sections of downtown Syracuse.

The exhibition will also pair the paintings with historic photos and prints, documenting either the particular image or the actual historic landscape that inspired the artists. The works will explore how the artist chose to interpret that Central New York setting and why those places help shape our regional identity.

Julie Blackmon: Other Tales from Home
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5 adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Authentic and dysfunctional, Julie Blackmon's photographs of family life strike a resonating chord in both children and adult viewers. Boys and girls run free in the backyard or the living room among scattered toys while preoccupied grown-ups hover on the edges. Inspired by humorous 17th-century Dutch paintings and her own childhood as the eldest of nine, Blackmon digitally reconstructs scenes of family life with humor and an eye for the underlying chaos. The exhibition contains selections from her past series, Domestic Vacations, along with photographs from her latest body of work.

Shaker Boxes: Works by Fred Weisskopf
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

As this month's featured artist, Fred has made a special selection of shaker boxes. There will also be a display showing steps involved in the making of traditional shaker boxes.

Form and Landscape: New Work by Jeremy Randall
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

This exhibition marks the first time that Jeremy Randall's architectural ceramic vessels will be paired with his landscape drawings.

Randall's work was recently selected for inclusion in a November show at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He also has exhibited this year at Craftboston Spring, Baltimore Clayworks, the Paradise City Arts Festival in Northampton, MA, and Studio 550 in Nashua, NH. Altogether, his works have been shown in more than 60 exhibitions nationwide; images have appeared in Ceramic Arts Daily, Clay Times, Ceramic Review, Stone Canoe, and "500 Vases" and "500 Cups" (Lark Books).

Randall uses color to elevate forms to be celebrated, while conjuring the nostalgia for something old that is still recognized today. His drawings combine graphite and acrylic paint on panel. The colors relate to his ceramic work, and lend a soft energy to the landscape being referenced.

Randall, recognized by Ceramics Monthly as an Emerging Artist for 2009, is digital imaging/web specialist and head of installations at Imagine, studio manager and visiting professor of art at Cazenovia College, and adjunct professor of ceramics at Syracuse University, his alma mater.

His work is held in the permanent collection of the Southern Illinois University Museum and the private Meyerhoff Collection in Baltimore. In addition to Imagine and Gandee Gallery locally, he is represented by galleries in Montana, Ohio, Georgia and Massachusetts.

Exploring the Digital Landscape: Works by Carl Hoffner

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Carl Hoffner's artwork surrounds the viewer in a cacophony of color. His contemporary landscapes of the Central New York region vibrate with intense color. Says Hoffner, "In my work I explore the inherent abstractions and extraordinary color within Upstate New York’s wealth of natural beauty."

While Hoffner also works in traditional lithograph, the work being exhibited here is part of his digital portfolio. Hoffner uses the computer paired with a Wacom tablet, and Corel painter software to draw and paint directly on the computer. Hoffner explains, "I have found this to be a liberating artistic experience bringing back the play in my art as well as offering a chance to re-explore my passion for painting and color." The completed digital paintings are produced in limited editions using giclee inkjet printing technology.

Hoffner received his MFA from Syracuse University and a BFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art. He taught in the art department of OCC in the 1980s. His work is in collections in the United States and abroad including galleries in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Europe, United Kingdom, and Australia. Hoffner currently resides in Fayetteville, NY.

Funky Flea

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

What is the Funky Flea? It is an outdoor market that's a little bit flea, a little bit craft and a whole lotta fun! The market is modeled along the lines of the Brooklyn Flea and Artists and Fleas with a bit of the Salt City Urban Art & Craft Market thrown in for good measure. Over 50 local vendors will be participating, along with live music and food vendors.

Rain date: Sunday, June 3.

For more information, visit funkyfleasyracuse.blogspot.com.

Mission Modern: The Paintings of Darryl Hughto
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

This show seamlessly juxtaposes Darryl Hughto's contemporary land and seascape paintings with Dalton's Mission-era furnishings. Hughto's recent paintings are a continuation into the 21st century of a feeling for man in and of the land in the American painting tradition. The show reveals the ongoing nature of American art and culture from past to present.

Melding Time and Process: Works by Richard Harvey
Redhouse

Price: Free
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Exploring the psychological and emotive potential of the human face, Harvey creates figurative art inspired by a diverse range of art historical influences including Byzantine iconography, African sculpture, and Expressionist painting. Elements of typography, signage and graffiti reflect his background in graphic design.

Ekphrasis: A Marriage of Literary and Visual Arts
Szozda Gallery
CNY Pen Women

Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"Ekphrasis" combines literary and visual arts with special related events showcasing the esteemed works of Central New York Pen Women, local chapter of The National League of American Pen Women, Inc.

Chair for this year's Annual Pen Women's show is artist Yolanda Tooley who defines the name chosen as a "rhetorical device in which one medium of art relates to another medium." Included in the visual part of "Ekphrasis" are about 32 pieces rendered by 16 artists, and writings by eight poets whose works are framed for hanging, bringing the total wall pieces to around 40. Rachael Ikins coordinated the "Ekphrasis" readings.

Pen Women visual artists included in "Ekphrasis" are Jacqueline Adamo, Joan Applebaum, Sallie Bailey, Linda Bigness-Lanigan, Evelyn Dankovich, Jeanne Dupre, Joy Englehart, Roscha Folger, Marilyn Forth, Diana Godfrey, Wendy Harris, Mary Kester, Karen Kozicki, Mary Raineri, Joan Steir and Yolanda Tooley.

Pen Women letters/writers/poets are Sheila Byrnes, Janet Fagal, Mary Gardner, Rachael Ikins, Georgia Popoff, Nancy Keefe Rhodes, Bobbie Panek and Lorraine Arsenault.

11th Annual Westcott Art Trail
Westcott Community Center

Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

You never knew the neighborhood was so talented!

This art fair has grown to one of the finest arts and craft offerings in Syracuse. This year we are expecting 80+ artists, of extraordinary quality, in 25+ locations around the neighborhood. The locations include artists' homes and studios that stretch from Meadowbrook to Berkley and from Broad to Avondale and beyond. Local artists work in a range of mediums, including ceramics, glass, jewelry, fibers, painting, and sculpture. Many will be demonstrating their craft in mediums including silk painting, henna, watercolor, ceramic wheel throwing and firing, oil painting, origami, jewelry making techniques, and others.

The heart of the Art Trail, the Westcott Community Center, will host many artists, as well as offering a refreshments including a bake sale for its youth programming. In addition The Eastside Farmer's Market will kick off its season at the Center.

Every location will be marked by bright yellow flags. Get to know your neighbors, have some food, and buy some art!

A complete listing of participating artists and a map is available here.

Opening: The Unexpected Journey: Works By Beverly McIver and How I See the World: Works by Spencer McClay
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

There will be an opening reception this afternoon 12:00-2:00 pm, with a live weaving demonstration by McClay at 1:00 pm.

Our summer exhibition will feature acclaimed artist Beverly McIver and California-based weaver Spencer McClay. These two artists offer different and refreshing perspectives on disability.

"The Unexpected Journey: Works by Beverly McIver" is a selection of paintings that examine McIver's unpredictable relationship with her mentally disabled sister, Renee.

"How I See the World: Works by Spencer McClay" is a collection of vibrant hand-woven wall sculptures by an artist with a unique vision and sensibility for the materials he uses.

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Opening: Focal Points: Photography by Mia Burse
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

There will be an opening reception this afternoon 12:00-2:00 pm.

"Focal Points" is a collection of black and white photos that capture the essence and spirit of the Trayvon Martin case in Syracuse. The exhibition chronicles the Syracuse "One Million Hoodie March" that stretched from Franklin Square to Clinton Square on March 30, 2012. Burse's exhibition also features personal statements from various community members on how the Trayvon Martin case affected them.

Mia Burse is a freelance photojournalist whose local clientele includes Syracuse University South Side Initiative, Syracuse City School District, the NAACP Syracuse/Onondaga, and the Central New York National Organization for Women. Burse was recognized by the Central New York Business Journal as a 40 Under Forty in 2010, and was honored as a Diversity Achiever by the YWCA Syracuse for her commitment to diversity and eliminating racism.

Living Collections
Echo

745 N. Salina St. (formerly Craft Chemistry)
Syracuse

A series of paintings portraying children's collections in unusual environments by Pennsylvania artist, Elody Gyekis.

Flower Power
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

"Flower Power" presents an eclectic mix of styles and art media. This group exhibition celebrates the beauty of flowers and the vessels used to contain them. The show includes photography, wood, sculpture, fiber art, and ceramics. Participating artists include Justin Campbell, Suzanne Fluty, Jen Gandee, Bob Gates, Mary Giehl, Vicki Hartman, Dave LoParco, Colleen McCall, Kate Money, Melissa Montgomery, Brooks Oliver, Kala Stein, Dan Tracy, Jeanann Wieners, Pualani Wiley, and Errol Willett.

Timeless Imagery: Associated Artists of CNY's 85th Anniversary Exhibition
Onondaga Historical Association
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Since 1927, Associated Artists has sought to bring together the best artists and their art for the benefit of the central New York community. The exhibit at OHA will showcase 85 years of juried arts competition winning entries from regional artists. "Timeless Imagery" is an opportunity to observe in one gallery the history of Central New York's changing art scene.

Take No Prisoners: Political Cartoons Over Time and Place
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Three well-known Central New York political cartoonists, Joe Glisson, Tim Atseff, and Frank Cammuso, are the featured cartoonists for an exhibition entitled "Take No Prisoners: Political Cartoons Over Time and Place." With insightful humor, these artists and their historic predecessors produced a wide variety of editorial cartoons that illustrated important issues of their time. Starting with cartoons from the Civil War era through the present day, "Take No Prisoners" is an opportunity to experience historic subjects as the current events they once were, and to see how election issues of the past compare with those of the present-day.

Celebrating 90 Years of Design at Syracuse University
XL Projects

Price: Free
XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

An exhibition of work by current students in the environmental and interior design and industrial and interaction design programs in the Department of Design. The programs are celebrating their 90th anniversaries.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours or email Andrew Havenhand, ahavenhand@yahoo.com.

For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created "For Syracuse" as a site-specific installation that streams across the facade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms, and Survival" that challenge viewer's assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses, or lamenting the struggles of daily living Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed Truisms on one of Time Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her Survival Series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

Taste of Syracuse

Price: Free
Clinton Square
Downtown, Syracuse

Two days of food and music in downtown Syracuse. For more information, visit www.tasteofsyracuse.com.

MAIN STAGE -- Blues, Brews and BBQ
1:00 pm: Perry-Mulhauser Band
2:15 pm: Fabulous Ripcords
3:45 pm: Tyler Bryant and The Shakedown
5:30 pm: Duke Robillard
7:30 pm: Elephant Mountain
9:00 pm: 38 Special

CLINTON SQUARE STAGE
12:00 pm: No X'cuses
1:30 pm: Expozure
3:00 pm: Z-Bones
4:15 pm: Turnip Stampede
5:30 pm: The Barn Dogs
6:45 pm: Soft Spoken
8:00 pm: Stroke
9:30 pm: Custom Taylor Band

ERIE BLVD. STAGE
12:00 pm: Chris Taylor Trio
1:15 pm: Dead End
2:30 pm: Silent Fury
3:45 pm: Mother Cover
5:00 pm: Super 400
6:15 pm: The Reissues
7:45 pm: 3 Inch Fury
9:35 pm: Scars & Stripes

What the Frack?
Featuring Alec Baldwin, host

Price: $22 regular, $12 with student ID at the box office
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Film screening of "Gasland," hosted by Alec Baldwin

Tickets can be purchased through the Landmark box office Monday-Friday 10:00 am-5:00 pm or through Ticketmaster.com

The box office is located at 364 S. Salina St. and reachable by phone at 315-475-7980.

Lullabies of Broadway Cabaret
Syracuse Chorale
Warren Ottey, conductor

Price: $15 regular, $12 seniors
Blessed Sacrament School
3127 James St., Syracuse

Selections include "Steam Heat" and "Hernando's Hideaway" from The Pajama Game, "Varsity Drag" from Good News, "Rhythm of Life" from Sweet Charity, "Lullabies of Broadway" from 42nd Street, and a medley from Grease

Solo and duet performances include selections from West Side Story, Les Miserables, Jesus Christ Superstar, My Fair Lady and many more.  Plus we will have the pleasure of hearing from our 2012 "Voices of Tomorrow" scholarship winners.

As always, we will have appetizers set out prior to the show and desserts available during intermission, plus punch and coffee.

How I Became a Pirate
Gifford Family Theatre

Price: $15 adults, $10 children
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The musical, by Janet Yates Vogt and Mark Friedman, is based on Melinda Long's popular children's book. Young Jeremy Jacob meets up with a band of pirates while at the beach digging in the sand. He spends some time aboard the vessel, living the pirate life on the open seas. Meanwhile, his crew mates learn about Jeremy’s life as a young boy in present day boy who plays soccer.

To reserve tickets, call 315-445-4523. For more information, call the Gifford Family Theatre at 315-445-4230 or email giffordthtr@lemoyne.edu.

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Unsung Broadway
Appleseed Productions

Price: $5
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Come enjoy an evening of music never or rarely heard. Songs include those cut from popular musicals such as Guys & Dolls, Fiddler on the Roof, On the Town, and Once on this Island. Shows not yet (or never to be) on Broadway include Whistle Down the Wind and Love Never Dies (the Phantom of the Opera sequel). Appleseed presented editions of this series in the late 90s and early 2000s, to enthusiastic audience response.

Singers to include Marguerite Beebe, Marlina Beebe, Kathy Egloff, Lanny Freshman, Michele Lindor, Beth Ferrera Spencer, and Gary Stensland. A special appearance will be made by Dan Williams.

The concert is directed by Kathryn Gaetz Woods, with accompaniment by Rob Mossotti on piano and Kinyatta King on drums.

Bunked!
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

Price: $20
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Bunked!: A New Musical is a comedic coming of age story of five summer camp counselors, three male and two female, during the pivotal summer before the beginning of college. With easily relatable characters that are experiencing their first taste of independence, Bunked! taps into the uncertainty of trying to find yourself while forging your first adult relationships.

Exploring themes of sexual orientation, first loves, and growing up, the show asks the fundamental questions "who am I?, "where do I belong?" and "how do I make a name for myself?" in a manner that is both humorous and poignant. Winner of the New York International Fringe Festival's "Best Overall Production of a Musical." Book and Lyrics by Alaina Kunin; music, book, lyrics by Bradford Proctor; musical director Chris Widomski.

This show is intended for mature audiences only.

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John & Jen
Redhouse
Stephen Svoboda, director

Price: $25 regular, $15 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Just in time for Memorial Day weekend, pay tribute to our brave soldiers and their courageous families with this award-winning musical. Follow the story of Jen and her relationships with the two Johns of her life: her younger brother, who was killed in Vietnam, and his namesake, her son, who is trying to find his way in a confusing world. With a cast of only two people, John & Jen is a tour-de-force for two actors who travel from childhood through adolescence and beyond. Join us for a magical night exploring connections, commitments, and the healing of the human heart.

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Sunday, June 3, 2012

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

The Locks of the New York State Canal System
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Pen and ink drawings of artist Ray Sax will be on display. The 57 drawings were created by Sax over a four year period that began in 1988 with a picnic to Lock 24 in Baldwinsville with his wife Betty. Enjoying the experience, they kept going from one lock to the next, Ray drawing each one.

The exhibition of these drawings will bring new attention to the beauty and engineering of Barge Canal structures. Visitors to the exhibit will be reminded that the Erie Canal is not merely a thing of the past, but a remarkable body of water that connects east and west.

Ekphrasis: A Marriage of Literary and Visual Arts
Szozda Gallery
CNY Pen Women

Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"Ekphrasis" combines literary and visual arts with special related events showcasing the esteemed works of Central New York Pen Women, local chapter of The National League of American Pen Women, Inc.

Chair for this year's Annual Pen Women's show is artist Yolanda Tooley who defines the name chosen as a "rhetorical device in which one medium of art relates to another medium." Included in the visual part of "Ekphrasis" are about 32 pieces rendered by 16 artists, and writings by eight poets whose works are framed for hanging, bringing the total wall pieces to around 40. Rachael Ikins coordinated the "Ekphrasis" readings.

Pen Women visual artists included in "Ekphrasis" are Jacqueline Adamo, Joan Applebaum, Sallie Bailey, Linda Bigness-Lanigan, Evelyn Dankovich, Jeanne Dupre, Joy Englehart, Roscha Folger, Marilyn Forth, Diana Godfrey, Wendy Harris, Mary Kester, Karen Kozicki, Mary Raineri, Joan Steir and Yolanda Tooley.

Pen Women letters/writers/poets are Sheila Byrnes, Janet Fagal, Mary Gardner, Rachael Ikins, Georgia Popoff, Nancy Keefe Rhodes, Bobbie Panek and Lorraine Arsenault.

Shaker Boxes: Works by Fred Weisskopf
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

As this month's featured artist, Fred has made a special selection of shaker boxes. There will also be a display showing steps involved in the making of traditional shaker boxes.

Flower Power
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

"Flower Power" presents an eclectic mix of styles and art media. This group exhibition celebrates the beauty of flowers and the vessels used to contain them. The show includes photography, wood, sculpture, fiber art, and ceramics. Participating artists include Justin Campbell, Suzanne Fluty, Jen Gandee, Bob Gates, Mary Giehl, Vicki Hartman, Dave LoParco, Colleen McCall, Kate Money, Melissa Montgomery, Brooks Oliver, Kala Stein, Dan Tracy, Jeanann Wieners, Pualani Wiley, and Errol Willett.

Form and Landscape: New Work by Jeremy Randall
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

This exhibition marks the first time that Jeremy Randall's architectural ceramic vessels will be paired with his landscape drawings.

Randall's work was recently selected for inclusion in a November show at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He also has exhibited this year at Craftboston Spring, Baltimore Clayworks, the Paradise City Arts Festival in Northampton, MA, and Studio 550 in Nashua, NH. Altogether, his works have been shown in more than 60 exhibitions nationwide; images have appeared in Ceramic Arts Daily, Clay Times, Ceramic Review, Stone Canoe, and "500 Vases" and "500 Cups" (Lark Books).

Randall uses color to elevate forms to be celebrated, while conjuring the nostalgia for something old that is still recognized today. His drawings combine graphite and acrylic paint on panel. The colors relate to his ceramic work, and lend a soft energy to the landscape being referenced.

Randall, recognized by Ceramics Monthly as an Emerging Artist for 2009, is digital imaging/web specialist and head of installations at Imagine, studio manager and visiting professor of art at Cazenovia College, and adjunct professor of ceramics at Syracuse University, his alma mater.

His work is held in the permanent collection of the Southern Illinois University Museum and the private Meyerhoff Collection in Baltimore. In addition to Imagine and Gandee Gallery locally, he is represented by galleries in Montana, Ohio, Georgia and Massachusetts.

Take No Prisoners: Political Cartoons Over Time and Place
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Three well-known Central New York political cartoonists, Joe Glisson, Tim Atseff, and Frank Cammuso, are the featured cartoonists for an exhibition entitled "Take No Prisoners: Political Cartoons Over Time and Place." With insightful humor, these artists and their historic predecessors produced a wide variety of editorial cartoons that illustrated important issues of their time. Starting with cartoons from the Civil War era through the present day, "Take No Prisoners" is an opportunity to experience historic subjects as the current events they once were, and to see how election issues of the past compare with those of the present-day.

Timeless Imagery: Associated Artists of CNY's 85th Anniversary Exhibition
Onondaga Historical Association
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Since 1927, Associated Artists has sought to bring together the best artists and their art for the benefit of the central New York community. The exhibit at OHA will showcase 85 years of juried arts competition winning entries from regional artists. "Timeless Imagery" is an opportunity to observe in one gallery the history of Central New York's changing art scene.

Julie Blackmon: Other Tales from Home
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5 adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Authentic and dysfunctional, Julie Blackmon's photographs of family life strike a resonating chord in both children and adult viewers. Boys and girls run free in the backyard or the living room among scattered toys while preoccupied grown-ups hover on the edges. Inspired by humorous 17th-century Dutch paintings and her own childhood as the eldest of nine, Blackmon digitally reconstructs scenes of family life with humor and an eye for the underlying chaos. The exhibition contains selections from her past series, Domestic Vacations, along with photographs from her latest body of work.

People, Place and Progress: Local Landscapes in Paint and Print
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $5 suggested donation
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In a partnership between the Everson Museum of Art and the Onondaga Historical Association, this exhibit will include paintings from the collections of both institutions. The works will feature local historical scenes such as views of the Erie Canal, rural vistas, area waterfalls and gorges, plus local architectural landmarks, former breweries, stagecoach inns and sections of downtown Syracuse.

The exhibition will also pair the paintings with historic photos and prints, documenting either the particular image or the actual historic landscape that inspired the artists. The works will explore how the artist chose to interpret that Central New York setting and why those places help shape our regional identity.

11th Annual Westcott Art Trail
Westcott Community Center

Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

You never knew the neighborhood was so talented!

This art fair has grown to one of the finest arts and craft offerings in Syracuse. This year we are expecting 80+ artists, of extraordinary quality, in 25+ locations around the neighborhood. The locations include artists' homes and studios that stretch from Meadowbrook to Berkley and from Broad to Avondale and beyond. Local artists work in a range of mediums, including ceramics, glass, jewelry, fibers, painting, and sculpture. Many will be demonstrating their craft in mediums including silk painting, henna, watercolor, ceramic wheel throwing and firing, oil painting, origami, jewelry making techniques, and others.

The heart of the Art Trail, the Westcott Community Center, will host many artists, as well as offering a refreshments including a bake sale for its youth programming. In addition The Eastside Farmer's Market will kick off its season at the Center.

Every location will be marked by bright yellow flags. Get to know your neighbors, have some food, and buy some art!

A complete listing of participating artists and a map is available here.

Celebrating 90 Years of Design at Syracuse University
XL Projects

Price: Free
XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

An exhibition of work by current students in the environmental and interior design and industrial and interaction design programs in the Department of Design. The programs are celebrating their 90th anniversaries.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours or email Andrew Havenhand, ahavenhand@yahoo.com.

Melding Time and Process: Works by Richard Harvey
Redhouse

Price: Free
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Exploring the psychological and emotive potential of the human face, Harvey creates figurative art inspired by a diverse range of art historical influences including Byzantine iconography, African sculpture, and Expressionist painting. Elements of typography, signage and graffiti reflect his background in graphic design.

For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created "For Syracuse" as a site-specific installation that streams across the facade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms, and Survival" that challenge viewer's assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses, or lamenting the struggles of daily living Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed Truisms on one of Time Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her Survival Series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

*RESCHEDULED* Westcott Architecture and History Walking Tour
Westcott East Neighborhood Association
Featuring Sam Gruber, architectural historian

Price: Free
Petit Branch Library
105 Victoria Pl., Syracuse

The history walk has been rescheduled to June 17 because of the Westcott Art Trail Sale this weekend.

Tour begins at Petit Library, ends at Edmund Mill Rose Garden, Thornden Park. Rain date: June 24 at 1:00 pm.

For more information, contact Westcott East Neighborhood Association, 315-440-9341.

Live! At The Everson: Young Artists Live!
Civic Morning Musicals

Price: $15 adults, students free
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Onondaga County Music Educators Association competition winners join winners of the Central New York Association of Music Teachers competition in a varied program of prize-winning performances. A joyful celebration of, and by, outstanding representatives of our musical future.

Art Songs and Afternoon Tea
Pro Musica Divina
Featuring Jonathan Howell, tenor; Jared Shepard, piano

Price: $12 adults, $8 students
St. Matthew's School
214 Kinne St., East Syracuse

Renowned tenor and Syracuse native Jonathan Howell gives an afternoon recital with pianist Jared Shepard. They will be performing selections from Vaughn Williams' Songs of Travel and Britten's Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo as well as settings by Brahms, Strauss, and Moore of the naturalistic poetry of Holty, John Henry Mackay, and William Butler Yeats.

The concert will take place in the community room, Heman Street Entrance.

Lullabies of Broadway Cabaret
Syracuse Chorale
Warren Ottey, conductor

Price: $15 regular, $12 seniors
Blessed Sacrament School
3127 James St., Syracuse

Selections include "Steam Heat" and "Hernando's Hideaway" from The Pajama Game, "Varsity Drag" from Good News, "Rhythm of Life" from Sweet Charity, "Lullabies of Broadway" from 42nd Street, and a medley from Grease

Solo and duet performances include selections from West Side Story, Les Miserables, Jesus Christ Superstar, My Fair Lady and many more.  Plus we will have the pleasure of hearing from our 2012 "Voices of Tomorrow" scholarship winners.

As always, we will have appetizers set out prior to the show and desserts available during intermission, plus punch and coffee.

Summer Solstice Concert
Syracuse Community Choir
Karen Mihalyi, conductor
Featuring Dream Freedom Revival

Price: $12-$25
Syracuse Center for the Performing Arts
728 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The concert is dedicated to the memory of Audrey Shenandoah, Onondaga Clan Mother. Performance will be preceded by an ice cream social at 3:00 pm.

For more information, phone 315-428-8151.

Jazz Vespers
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free
Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church
5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

These informal events are open to people of all faiths. Music is drawn from sacred and secular sources, accompanied by inspiration readings and a homily.

Monday, June 4, 2012

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

Exploring the Digital Landscape: Works by Carl Hoffner

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Carl Hoffner's artwork surrounds the viewer in a cacophony of color. His contemporary landscapes of the Central New York region vibrate with intense color. Says Hoffner, "In my work I explore the inherent abstractions and extraordinary color within Upstate New York’s wealth of natural beauty."

While Hoffner also works in traditional lithograph, the work being exhibited here is part of his digital portfolio. Hoffner uses the computer paired with a Wacom tablet, and Corel painter software to draw and paint directly on the computer. Hoffner explains, "I have found this to be a liberating artistic experience bringing back the play in my art as well as offering a chance to re-explore my passion for painting and color." The completed digital paintings are produced in limited editions using giclee inkjet printing technology.

Hoffner received his MFA from Syracuse University and a BFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art. He taught in the art department of OCC in the 1980s. His work is in collections in the United States and abroad including galleries in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Europe, United Kingdom, and Australia. Hoffner currently resides in Fayetteville, NY.

The Power and The Piety: The World of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibit, curated by History Professor Chris Kyle with Senior Director of Special Collections Sean Quimby, showcases the library's collection of illuminated manuscripts and early printed works, including a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible.

The title "The Power and The Piety," refers to extraordinary influence that secular monarchies and the Church had on the lives of everyday men and women. Richly illustrated late medieval psalters and books of hours exemplify the painstaking attention that the pious paid to their spiritual well-being. But the printing revolution made it possible for new ideas to spread more rapidly. Printed works like Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" (1651) signified the increasing power wielded by kings, queens and other secular authorities. As the Protestant Reformation and Scientific Revolution took hold of Europe, the power of the Catholic Church further waned. "The Power and the Piety" includes such important works as the first King James Bible (1611) and a second printing of Copernicus' "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" (1566), which argued in favor of a heliocentric, or sun-centered, universe.

The exhibition is arranged thematically, highlighting the overarching themes of power and piety, as well as English literature, music, architecture, science and fine bindings.

Larry Hoyt: Painting, Photgraphy, and Drawings
Westcott Community Art Gallery

Price: Free
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

The Locks of the New York State Canal System
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Pen and ink drawings of artist Ray Sax will be on display. The 57 drawings were created by Sax over a four year period that began in 1988 with a picnic to Lock 24 in Baldwinsville with his wife Betty. Enjoying the experience, they kept going from one lock to the next, Ray drawing each one.

The exhibition of these drawings will bring new attention to the beauty and engineering of Barge Canal structures. Visitors to the exhibit will be reminded that the Erie Canal is not merely a thing of the past, but a remarkable body of water that connects east and west.

Form and Landscape: New Work by Jeremy Randall
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

This exhibition marks the first time that Jeremy Randall's architectural ceramic vessels will be paired with his landscape drawings.

Randall's work was recently selected for inclusion in a November show at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He also has exhibited this year at Craftboston Spring, Baltimore Clayworks, the Paradise City Arts Festival in Northampton, MA, and Studio 550 in Nashua, NH. Altogether, his works have been shown in more than 60 exhibitions nationwide; images have appeared in Ceramic Arts Daily, Clay Times, Ceramic Review, Stone Canoe, and "500 Vases" and "500 Cups" (Lark Books).

Randall uses color to elevate forms to be celebrated, while conjuring the nostalgia for something old that is still recognized today. His drawings combine graphite and acrylic paint on panel. The colors relate to his ceramic work, and lend a soft energy to the landscape being referenced.

Randall, recognized by Ceramics Monthly as an Emerging Artist for 2009, is digital imaging/web specialist and head of installations at Imagine, studio manager and visiting professor of art at Cazenovia College, and adjunct professor of ceramics at Syracuse University, his alma mater.

His work is held in the permanent collection of the Southern Illinois University Museum and the private Meyerhoff Collection in Baltimore. In addition to Imagine and Gandee Gallery locally, he is represented by galleries in Montana, Ohio, Georgia and Massachusetts.

Mission Modern: The Paintings of Darryl Hughto
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

This show seamlessly juxtaposes Darryl Hughto's contemporary land and seascape paintings with Dalton's Mission-era furnishings. Hughto's recent paintings are a continuation into the 21st century of a feeling for man in and of the land in the American painting tradition. The show reveals the ongoing nature of American art and culture from past to present.

Shaker Boxes: Works by Fred Weisskopf
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

As this month's featured artist, Fred has made a special selection of shaker boxes. There will also be a display showing steps involved in the making of traditional shaker boxes.

For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created "For Syracuse" as a site-specific installation that streams across the facade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms, and Survival" that challenge viewer's assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses, or lamenting the struggles of daily living Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed Truisms on one of Time Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her Survival Series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

G-Men (1935)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $3.50 non-members, $3 members
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Directed by William Keighley. Cast includes James Cagney, Ann Dvorak, Margaret Lindsay, Robert Armstrong, Barton MacLane, Lloyd Nolan.

One of Cagney's best early films, as he portrays a street-wise lawyer who becomes an FBI agent to avenge a pal's death. Rousing, action-filled drama from Warner Brothers.

Liverpool Schools Jazz Ensembles
Liverpool is the Place

Price: Free
Johnson Park
Corner of Vine and Oswego Streets, Liverpool

Student musicians perform.