Friday, May 27, 2016

Student Art Show
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

April Showers: Technically Irrelevant
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

Featuring works by Sherry Allen, Lauren Bristol, John Fitzsimmons, Robert Kasprzycki, Ken Nichols, Stephanie Roeser, and Penny Santy.

Avida Dollars: Salvador Dalí, Joseph Forêt, and the Three Most Expensive Books in the World
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibition explores the collaboration of Salvador Dalí with Parisian publisher Joseph Forêt, which aimed to produce the three most expensive books in the world between 1956 and 1963. These books are illustrated editions of Dante's The Divine Comedy, Cervantes's Don Quixote, and Saint John's Apocalypse.

Classic Tradition
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Richard Henry and Nikolay Mikushkin: oil painting done in the tradition of plein air landscape, floral and classic still-lifes
Carol Adamec: nature-inspired metal sculpture
Esperanza Tielbaard: nature-themed jewelry

CNY Photo Expo
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

We didn't set out to make life difficult for the most recent artist jury at Gallery 54. Still, it turned out to be a challenging assignment as each of three artist/jurors set out to select the images that will be featured at the Gallery 54 Photo Expo.

Even though the Expo was only promoted locally, entries came from as far away as New York City, Kentucky, and Montreal. Most of the images have been captured in Central New York, the Finger Lakes and the Adirondacks, while a few of the jury favorites were brought home by photographers visiting other areas of the country. All the seasons are represented and, besides the grand landscapes, both close-up flower photography as well as wildlife photography are well represented.

Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

Light Work is pleased to present "Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection." Curated by Erin Carter, "Unnatural Creatures" features Light Work Collection photographers Kanako Sasaki, Laura Aguilar, and Tony Gleaton, among others, whose images explore the strangeness of being alive. "Unnatural Creatures" presents a coming-of-age story with a twist. Primarily focusing on the female body, the exhibition mines themes of gender, aging, and socialization as thought, feeling and perception converge.

Miki Soejima: The Passenger's Present
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

A solo exhibition of work by artist Miki Soejima.

Miki Soejima is a London-based Japanese artist. Soejima's Mrs. Merryman's Collection (MACK, 2012) was the recipient of the First Book Award and is regarded as one of the top photobooks of 2012. Recent exhibitions include The Atkinson Gallery, Southport UK; PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin; Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona; Michael Hoppen Gallery, London; and World Photography Festival and Sony World Photography Awards, Somerset House, London. Soejima's work is in the collections of the National Media Museum, Amana Photo Collection, and the Jeremy Cooper Collection. Soejima's book is included in The Photobook: A History, Volume III by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger. Soejima was a Light Work Artist-in-Residence in January 2015.

Ben Altman: Site/Sight
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

A solo exhibition of work by Ben Altman.

Since 2013, Altman has visited many sites, memorials, and museums related to atrocity and genocide. At these places, emblematic of the violent histories that have formed our contemporary world, it is almost automatic for visitors to raise their smart phones and cameras. Through his own photographs Altman explores this contemporary action and its implications. He groups his photographs to suggest connections between the locations. Site/Sight is one of several of Altman's projects about intractable modern histories.

Ben Altman trained as an artist by studying physics, towing icebergs, racing sailboats, and working as a commercial photographer. After moving to the United States from his native England in the early 1980s he spent 25 years in Chicago, and he now lives near Ithaca. Altman has exhibited work recently in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Asheville, NC, Fort Wayne, IN, and Syracuse. He was awarded the Houston Center for Photography's 2015 Fellowship, included in the 2015 Critical Mass Top 50, and runner-up in Soho Photo Gallery's 2014 National Photography Competition. His project The More That Is Taken Away is fiscally sponsored by Artspire, a program of the New York Foundation for the Arts, and received a Film Finishing Funds grant from the NY State Council on the Arts. In 2014 his Talk Tompkins was awarded an Artist in Community grant from NYSCA. Altman was a resident with 2×2 Collective in 2012 at Sculpture Space, Utica, NY. In addition to photography, Altman works with video, sound, installation, assemblage, and participation. He is represented by Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles.

A Life in Art: Highlights of Women Artists in OHA's Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit highlights artwork created by local women artists whose work is represented in OHA's collection. The exhibition features over 40 paintings, prints, drawings, and sculptures ranging from the mid-19th century through the end of the 20th century.

Art Makes Cents: Artwork of the M&T Bank Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibition of historic artwork and fanciful coin banks from the collection of Syracuse's M&T Bank.

A Good XCuse
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

A Good XCuse features ten ceramic artists who are alumni of Syracuse University's Ceramics Program. The work on view will range from ceramic sculpture to functional pottery. Participating artists include Patrick Coughlin, Ed Feldman, Giselle Hicks, Lynne Hobaica, Jee Eun Lee, Brooke Noble, Jeremy Randall, Jeff Schwarz, Tim See, and Katherine Taylor.

Responsive Eyes
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 1965, the Museum of Modern Art opened The Responsive Eye, a landmark exhibition which featured works by 100 modern artists who used abstract forms to examine how different shapes, patterns and colors could affect the eye of a viewer. Often called "Op Art" due to their relationships to the study of optics and optical illusions, these works appear to move, shimmer or vibrate despite the fact that they are stationary. This exhibition revisits the work of four of the artists included in the seminal survey: Josef Albers, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Frank Stella and Victor Vasarely, as well as their Latin contemporary Jesús Rafael Soto.

Majestic Mountain | Shining Sea
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Painters, photographers and ceramists alike have found inspiration in the landscape, drawing on the natural world as a subject, metaphor, and creative force. Taking a generous approach to interpreting the genre, this exhibition brings together an eclectic mix of works from the Everson's collection that highlights landscape's enduring hold on the human imagination. Featured are well-known works by Andrew Wyeth and Ansel Adams as well as little-seen pieces by Robert Arneson, Kenzo Okada, Laura Gilpin and others.

The Blue of Ruins: Works of Arnaldo Roche Rabell
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The Blue of Ruins features Roche's "blue" paintings and drawings made between 2007 and 2016 that use techniques such as brush drawing, scraping and rubbing on the material's surface to explore what is left of the subject. Many of the works included are still-lifes and the self-portraits, allowing Roche to comment on both the wholesomeness of the artist as subject and his relationship with memory and the world of objects. The exhibition aims to trace the artist's conceptual evolvement from full color to blue, and from an affirmative to an exploded subject.

Arnaldo Roche-Rabell (Puerto Rico, 1955) received his Bachelor's and Master's in Fine Arts from The Art Institute in Chicago. Roche-Rabell's work has been exhibited individually and collectively in museums and galleries like the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (The Puerto Rico Museum of Art), the Chicago Cultural Center, and El Museo del Barrio in New York City. His work is in the collections of many prominent museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute in Chicago, and the Bronx Museum.

Saya Woolfalk: ChimaCloud
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

According to multimedia artist Saya Woolfalk, her work "considers the idea that symbolic and ideological systems can be activated and re-imagined through collaboration, imaginative play and masquerade." Woolfalk is perhaps best known for the work she has done relating to her "Empathics" mythos, which imagines the culture of a society of alien beings who are plant-human hybrids.

The Stinky Cheese Man and other Fairly Stupid Tales
Gifford Family Theatre

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

This wildly inventive play with music was adapted by John Glore from the Caldecott Honor-winning book of the same name by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith. The show, full of wacky characters and silly songs, turns classic fairy tales on their heads. Among the tales told are "Cinderumplestiltskin" and "The Princess and the Bowling Ball." This crazy musical adventure is sure to delight audiences of all ages.

Read a review!

Cabaret: Too White Too Ethnic
Central New York Playhouse
Featuring Carleena Manzi

Price: $10 in advance, $12 at the door
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

Carleena Manzi stars in her own solo cabaret. A fixture of CNY Playhouse musicals, she takes the cabaret stage telling about her struggles as a mixed ethnicity actress.

Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A madcap comedy spoof of Sherlock Holmes' most famous case. Ken Ludwig (Lend Me a Tenor, Moon Over Buffalo) turns Arthur Conan Doyle's frightening tale into fast-paced, murderously delightful, comedy thriller as five actors take on a multitude of roles, including the famous sleuth and Dr. Watson. Like The 39 Steps only with a lot more howling!

Read a Review!

Saturday, May 28, 2016

Student Art Show
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Classic Tradition
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Richard Henry and Nikolay Mikushkin: oil painting done in the tradition of plein air landscape, floral and classic still-lifes
Carol Adamec: nature-inspired metal sculpture
Esperanza Tielbaard: nature-themed jewelry

Majestic Mountain | Shining Sea
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Painters, photographers and ceramists alike have found inspiration in the landscape, drawing on the natural world as a subject, metaphor, and creative force. Taking a generous approach to interpreting the genre, this exhibition brings together an eclectic mix of works from the Everson's collection that highlights landscape's enduring hold on the human imagination. Featured are well-known works by Andrew Wyeth and Ansel Adams as well as little-seen pieces by Robert Arneson, Kenzo Okada, Laura Gilpin and others.

Responsive Eyes
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 1965, the Museum of Modern Art opened The Responsive Eye, a landmark exhibition which featured works by 100 modern artists who used abstract forms to examine how different shapes, patterns and colors could affect the eye of a viewer. Often called "Op Art" due to their relationships to the study of optics and optical illusions, these works appear to move, shimmer or vibrate despite the fact that they are stationary. This exhibition revisits the work of four of the artists included in the seminal survey: Josef Albers, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Frank Stella and Victor Vasarely, as well as their Latin contemporary Jesús Rafael Soto.

CNY Photo Expo
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

We didn't set out to make life difficult for the most recent artist jury at Gallery 54. Still, it turned out to be a challenging assignment as each of three artist/jurors set out to select the images that will be featured at the Gallery 54 Photo Expo.

Even though the Expo was only promoted locally, entries came from as far away as New York City, Kentucky, and Montreal. Most of the images have been captured in Central New York, the Finger Lakes and the Adirondacks, while a few of the jury favorites were brought home by photographers visiting other areas of the country. All the seasons are represented and, besides the grand landscapes, both close-up flower photography as well as wildlife photography are well represented.

Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

Light Work is pleased to present "Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection." Curated by Erin Carter, "Unnatural Creatures" features Light Work Collection photographers Kanako Sasaki, Laura Aguilar, and Tony Gleaton, among others, whose images explore the strangeness of being alive. "Unnatural Creatures" presents a coming-of-age story with a twist. Primarily focusing on the female body, the exhibition mines themes of gender, aging, and socialization as thought, feeling and perception converge.

A Good XCuse
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

A Good XCuse features ten ceramic artists who are alumni of Syracuse University's Ceramics Program. The work on view will range from ceramic sculpture to functional pottery. Participating artists include Patrick Coughlin, Ed Feldman, Giselle Hicks, Lynne Hobaica, Jee Eun Lee, Brooke Noble, Jeremy Randall, Jeff Schwarz, Tim See, and Katherine Taylor.

Art Makes Cents: Artwork of the M&T Bank Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibition of historic artwork and fanciful coin banks from the collection of Syracuse's M&T Bank.

A Life in Art: Highlights of Women Artists in OHA's Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit highlights artwork created by local women artists whose work is represented in OHA's collection. The exhibition features over 40 paintings, prints, drawings, and sculptures ranging from the mid-19th century through the end of the 20th century.

The Blue of Ruins: Works of Arnaldo Roche Rabell
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The Blue of Ruins features Roche's "blue" paintings and drawings made between 2007 and 2016 that use techniques such as brush drawing, scraping and rubbing on the material's surface to explore what is left of the subject. Many of the works included are still-lifes and the self-portraits, allowing Roche to comment on both the wholesomeness of the artist as subject and his relationship with memory and the world of objects. The exhibition aims to trace the artist's conceptual evolvement from full color to blue, and from an affirmative to an exploded subject.

Arnaldo Roche-Rabell (Puerto Rico, 1955) received his Bachelor's and Master's in Fine Arts from The Art Institute in Chicago. Roche-Rabell's work has been exhibited individually and collectively in museums and galleries like the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (The Puerto Rico Museum of Art), the Chicago Cultural Center, and El Museo del Barrio in New York City. His work is in the collections of many prominent museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute in Chicago, and the Bronx Museum.

Saya Woolfalk: ChimaCloud
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

According to multimedia artist Saya Woolfalk, her work "considers the idea that symbolic and ideological systems can be activated and re-imagined through collaboration, imaginative play and masquerade." Woolfalk is perhaps best known for the work she has done relating to her "Empathics" mythos, which imagines the culture of a society of alien beings who are plant-human hybrids.

The Stinky Cheese Man and other Fairly Stupid Tales
Gifford Family Theatre

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

This wildly inventive play with music was adapted by John Glore from the Caldecott Honor-winning book of the same name by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith. The show, full of wacky characters and silly songs, turns classic fairy tales on their heads. Among the tales told are "Cinderumplestiltskin" and "The Princess and the Bowling Ball." This crazy musical adventure is sure to delight audiences of all ages.

Read a review!

Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A madcap comedy spoof of Sherlock Holmes' most famous case. Ken Ludwig (Lend Me a Tenor, Moon Over Buffalo) turns Arthur Conan Doyle's frightening tale into fast-paced, murderously delightful, comedy thriller as five actors take on a multitude of roles, including the famous sleuth and Dr. Watson. Like The 39 Steps only with a lot more howling!

Read a Review!

Cuse Comedy Showcase
Central New York Playhouse

Price: $10 in advance, $12 at the door
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

The March Cuse Comedy Showcase winner and local up-and-comer Justin Jackson will be headlining this Cuse Comedy Showcase, hosted by Tim Warner, previous Cuse Comedy showcase winner.

Competing comics: Francisco Ruben Arce, Doreen Watson, James Fedkiw, Michael Lamantia, Kyle Richard Deloff, Screech Munro, Chill Ms. Jackson.

Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A madcap comedy spoof of Sherlock Holmes' most famous case. Ken Ludwig (Lend Me a Tenor, Moon Over Buffalo) turns Arthur Conan Doyle's frightening tale into fast-paced, murderously delightful, comedy thriller as five actors take on a multitude of roles, including the famous sleuth and Dr. Watson. Like The 39 Steps only with a lot more howling!

Read a Review!

Sunday, May 29, 2016

CNY Photo Expo
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

We didn't set out to make life difficult for the most recent artist jury at Gallery 54. Still, it turned out to be a challenging assignment as each of three artist/jurors set out to select the images that will be featured at the Gallery 54 Photo Expo.

Even though the Expo was only promoted locally, entries came from as far away as New York City, Kentucky, and Montreal. Most of the images have been captured in Central New York, the Finger Lakes and the Adirondacks, while a few of the jury favorites were brought home by photographers visiting other areas of the country. All the seasons are represented and, besides the grand landscapes, both close-up flower photography as well as wildlife photography are well represented.

Ben Altman: Site/Sight
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

A solo exhibition of work by Ben Altman.

Since 2013, Altman has visited many sites, memorials, and museums related to atrocity and genocide. At these places, emblematic of the violent histories that have formed our contemporary world, it is almost automatic for visitors to raise their smart phones and cameras. Through his own photographs Altman explores this contemporary action and its implications. He groups his photographs to suggest connections between the locations. Site/Sight is one of several of Altman's projects about intractable modern histories.

Ben Altman trained as an artist by studying physics, towing icebergs, racing sailboats, and working as a commercial photographer. After moving to the United States from his native England in the early 1980s he spent 25 years in Chicago, and he now lives near Ithaca. Altman has exhibited work recently in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Asheville, NC, Fort Wayne, IN, and Syracuse. He was awarded the Houston Center for Photography's 2015 Fellowship, included in the 2015 Critical Mass Top 50, and runner-up in Soho Photo Gallery's 2014 National Photography Competition. His project The More That Is Taken Away is fiscally sponsored by Artspire, a program of the New York Foundation for the Arts, and received a Film Finishing Funds grant from the NY State Council on the Arts. In 2014 his Talk Tompkins was awarded an Artist in Community grant from NYSCA. Altman was a resident with 2×2 Collective in 2012 at Sculpture Space, Utica, NY. In addition to photography, Altman works with video, sound, installation, assemblage, and participation. He is represented by Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles.

Miki Soejima: The Passenger's Present
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

A solo exhibition of work by artist Miki Soejima.

Miki Soejima is a London-based Japanese artist. Soejima's Mrs. Merryman's Collection (MACK, 2012) was the recipient of the First Book Award and is regarded as one of the top photobooks of 2012. Recent exhibitions include The Atkinson Gallery, Southport UK; PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin; Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona; Michael Hoppen Gallery, London; and World Photography Festival and Sony World Photography Awards, Somerset House, London. Soejima's work is in the collections of the National Media Museum, Amana Photo Collection, and the Jeremy Cooper Collection. Soejima's book is included in The Photobook: A History, Volume III by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger. Soejima was a Light Work Artist-in-Residence in January 2015.

Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

Light Work is pleased to present "Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection." Curated by Erin Carter, "Unnatural Creatures" features Light Work Collection photographers Kanako Sasaki, Laura Aguilar, and Tony Gleaton, among others, whose images explore the strangeness of being alive. "Unnatural Creatures" presents a coming-of-age story with a twist. Primarily focusing on the female body, the exhibition mines themes of gender, aging, and socialization as thought, feeling and perception converge.

A Good XCuse
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

A Good XCuse features ten ceramic artists who are alumni of Syracuse University's Ceramics Program. The work on view will range from ceramic sculpture to functional pottery. Participating artists include Patrick Coughlin, Ed Feldman, Giselle Hicks, Lynne Hobaica, Jee Eun Lee, Brooke Noble, Jeremy Randall, Jeff Schwarz, Tim See, and Katherine Taylor.

Art Makes Cents: Artwork of the M&T Bank Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibition of historic artwork and fanciful coin banks from the collection of Syracuse's M&T Bank.

A Life in Art: Highlights of Women Artists in OHA's Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit highlights artwork created by local women artists whose work is represented in OHA's collection. The exhibition features over 40 paintings, prints, drawings, and sculptures ranging from the mid-19th century through the end of the 20th century.

Responsive Eyes
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 1965, the Museum of Modern Art opened The Responsive Eye, a landmark exhibition which featured works by 100 modern artists who used abstract forms to examine how different shapes, patterns and colors could affect the eye of a viewer. Often called "Op Art" due to their relationships to the study of optics and optical illusions, these works appear to move, shimmer or vibrate despite the fact that they are stationary. This exhibition revisits the work of four of the artists included in the seminal survey: Josef Albers, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Frank Stella and Victor Vasarely, as well as their Latin contemporary Jesús Rafael Soto.

Majestic Mountain | Shining Sea
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Painters, photographers and ceramists alike have found inspiration in the landscape, drawing on the natural world as a subject, metaphor, and creative force. Taking a generous approach to interpreting the genre, this exhibition brings together an eclectic mix of works from the Everson's collection that highlights landscape's enduring hold on the human imagination. Featured are well-known works by Andrew Wyeth and Ansel Adams as well as little-seen pieces by Robert Arneson, Kenzo Okada, Laura Gilpin and others.

Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A madcap comedy spoof of Sherlock Holmes' most famous case. Ken Ludwig (Lend Me a Tenor, Moon Over Buffalo) turns Arthur Conan Doyle's frightening tale into fast-paced, murderously delightful, comedy thriller as five actors take on a multitude of roles, including the famous sleuth and Dr. Watson. Like The 39 Steps only with a lot more howling!

Read a Review!

Monday, May 30, 2016

Memorial Day Pottery Sale
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

In the Gandee Gallery studio on Memorial Day, there will be plenty bargains and seconds at the annual Pottery Sale. In addition to Jen Gandee "seconds," the price of select items in the gallery showroom will be reduced up to 40%. There will also be plants for sale, with all proceeds supporting the Fabius-Pompey Outreach. The parade in Fabius starts around 10 am, so plan on getting in town before Main Street is closed to traffic.

April Showers: Technically Irrelevant
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

Featuring works by Sherry Allen, Lauren Bristol, John Fitzsimmons, Robert Kasprzycki, Ken Nichols, Stephanie Roeser, and Penny Santy.

Avida Dollars: Salvador Dalí, Joseph Forêt, and the Three Most Expensive Books in the World
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibition explores the collaboration of Salvador Dalí with Parisian publisher Joseph Forêt, which aimed to produce the three most expensive books in the world between 1956 and 1963. These books are illustrated editions of Dante's The Divine Comedy, Cervantes's Don Quixote, and Saint John's Apocalypse.

CNY Photo Expo
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

We didn't set out to make life difficult for the most recent artist jury at Gallery 54. Still, it turned out to be a challenging assignment as each of three artist/jurors set out to select the images that will be featured at the Gallery 54 Photo Expo.

Even though the Expo was only promoted locally, entries came from as far away as New York City, Kentucky, and Montreal. Most of the images have been captured in Central New York, the Finger Lakes and the Adirondacks, while a few of the jury favorites were brought home by photographers visiting other areas of the country. All the seasons are represented and, besides the grand landscapes, both close-up flower photography as well as wildlife photography are well represented.

Tuesday, May 31, 2016

April Showers: Technically Irrelevant
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

Featuring works by Sherry Allen, Lauren Bristol, John Fitzsimmons, Robert Kasprzycki, Ken Nichols, Stephanie Roeser, and Penny Santy.

Avida Dollars: Salvador Dalí, Joseph Forêt, and the Three Most Expensive Books in the World
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibition explores the collaboration of Salvador Dalí with Parisian publisher Joseph Forêt, which aimed to produce the three most expensive books in the world between 1956 and 1963. These books are illustrated editions of Dante's The Divine Comedy, Cervantes's Don Quixote, and Saint John's Apocalypse.

Classic Tradition
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Richard Henry and Nikolay Mikushkin: oil painting done in the tradition of plein air landscape, floral and classic still-lifes
Carol Adamec: nature-inspired metal sculpture
Esperanza Tielbaard: nature-themed jewelry

CNY Photo Expo
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

We didn't set out to make life difficult for the most recent artist jury at Gallery 54. Still, it turned out to be a challenging assignment as each of three artist/jurors set out to select the images that will be featured at the Gallery 54 Photo Expo.

Even though the Expo was only promoted locally, entries came from as far away as New York City, Kentucky, and Montreal. Most of the images have been captured in Central New York, the Finger Lakes and the Adirondacks, while a few of the jury favorites were brought home by photographers visiting other areas of the country. All the seasons are represented and, besides the grand landscapes, both close-up flower photography as well as wildlife photography are well represented.

Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

Light Work is pleased to present "Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection." Curated by Erin Carter, "Unnatural Creatures" features Light Work Collection photographers Kanako Sasaki, Laura Aguilar, and Tony Gleaton, among others, whose images explore the strangeness of being alive. "Unnatural Creatures" presents a coming-of-age story with a twist. Primarily focusing on the female body, the exhibition mines themes of gender, aging, and socialization as thought, feeling and perception converge.

Miki Soejima: The Passenger's Present
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

A solo exhibition of work by artist Miki Soejima.

Miki Soejima is a London-based Japanese artist. Soejima's Mrs. Merryman's Collection (MACK, 2012) was the recipient of the First Book Award and is regarded as one of the top photobooks of 2012. Recent exhibitions include The Atkinson Gallery, Southport UK; PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin; Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona; Michael Hoppen Gallery, London; and World Photography Festival and Sony World Photography Awards, Somerset House, London. Soejima's work is in the collections of the National Media Museum, Amana Photo Collection, and the Jeremy Cooper Collection. Soejima's book is included in The Photobook: A History, Volume III by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger. Soejima was a Light Work Artist-in-Residence in January 2015.

Ben Altman: Site/Sight
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

A solo exhibition of work by Ben Altman.

Since 2013, Altman has visited many sites, memorials, and museums related to atrocity and genocide. At these places, emblematic of the violent histories that have formed our contemporary world, it is almost automatic for visitors to raise their smart phones and cameras. Through his own photographs Altman explores this contemporary action and its implications. He groups his photographs to suggest connections between the locations. Site/Sight is one of several of Altman's projects about intractable modern histories.

Ben Altman trained as an artist by studying physics, towing icebergs, racing sailboats, and working as a commercial photographer. After moving to the United States from his native England in the early 1980s he spent 25 years in Chicago, and he now lives near Ithaca. Altman has exhibited work recently in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Asheville, NC, Fort Wayne, IN, and Syracuse. He was awarded the Houston Center for Photography's 2015 Fellowship, included in the 2015 Critical Mass Top 50, and runner-up in Soho Photo Gallery's 2014 National Photography Competition. His project The More That Is Taken Away is fiscally sponsored by Artspire, a program of the New York Foundation for the Arts, and received a Film Finishing Funds grant from the NY State Council on the Arts. In 2014 his Talk Tompkins was awarded an Artist in Community grant from NYSCA. Altman was a resident with 2×2 Collective in 2012 at Sculpture Space, Utica, NY. In addition to photography, Altman works with video, sound, installation, assemblage, and participation. He is represented by Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles.

Cultural Series: Symphoria Wind Quintet
Temple Society of Concord

Price: Free (donations accepted)
Temple Society of Concord
910 Madison St., Syracuse

Come enjoy a variety of musical styles performed by the principal winds of Symphoria.

Wednesday, June 1, 2016

April Showers: Technically Irrelevant
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

Featuring works by Sherry Allen, Lauren Bristol, John Fitzsimmons, Robert Kasprzycki, Ken Nichols, Stephanie Roeser, and Penny Santy.

Avida Dollars: Salvador Dalí, Joseph Forêt, and the Three Most Expensive Books in the World
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibition explores the collaboration of Salvador Dalí with Parisian publisher Joseph Forêt, which aimed to produce the three most expensive books in the world between 1956 and 1963. These books are illustrated editions of Dante's The Divine Comedy, Cervantes's Don Quixote, and Saint John's Apocalypse.

Classic Tradition
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Richard Henry and Nikolay Mikushkin: oil painting done in the tradition of plein air landscape, floral and classic still-lifes
Carol Adamec: nature-inspired metal sculpture
Esperanza Tielbaard: nature-themed jewelry

Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

Light Work is pleased to present "Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection." Curated by Erin Carter, "Unnatural Creatures" features Light Work Collection photographers Kanako Sasaki, Laura Aguilar, and Tony Gleaton, among others, whose images explore the strangeness of being alive. "Unnatural Creatures" presents a coming-of-age story with a twist. Primarily focusing on the female body, the exhibition mines themes of gender, aging, and socialization as thought, feeling and perception converge.

Ben Altman: Site/Sight
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

A solo exhibition of work by Ben Altman.

Since 2013, Altman has visited many sites, memorials, and museums related to atrocity and genocide. At these places, emblematic of the violent histories that have formed our contemporary world, it is almost automatic for visitors to raise their smart phones and cameras. Through his own photographs Altman explores this contemporary action and its implications. He groups his photographs to suggest connections between the locations. Site/Sight is one of several of Altman's projects about intractable modern histories.

Ben Altman trained as an artist by studying physics, towing icebergs, racing sailboats, and working as a commercial photographer. After moving to the United States from his native England in the early 1980s he spent 25 years in Chicago, and he now lives near Ithaca. Altman has exhibited work recently in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Asheville, NC, Fort Wayne, IN, and Syracuse. He was awarded the Houston Center for Photography's 2015 Fellowship, included in the 2015 Critical Mass Top 50, and runner-up in Soho Photo Gallery's 2014 National Photography Competition. His project The More That Is Taken Away is fiscally sponsored by Artspire, a program of the New York Foundation for the Arts, and received a Film Finishing Funds grant from the NY State Council on the Arts. In 2014 his Talk Tompkins was awarded an Artist in Community grant from NYSCA. Altman was a resident with 2×2 Collective in 2012 at Sculpture Space, Utica, NY. In addition to photography, Altman works with video, sound, installation, assemblage, and participation. He is represented by Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles.

Miki Soejima: The Passenger's Present
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

A solo exhibition of work by artist Miki Soejima.

Miki Soejima is a London-based Japanese artist. Soejima's Mrs. Merryman's Collection (MACK, 2012) was the recipient of the First Book Award and is regarded as one of the top photobooks of 2012. Recent exhibitions include The Atkinson Gallery, Southport UK; PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin; Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona; Michael Hoppen Gallery, London; and World Photography Festival and Sony World Photography Awards, Somerset House, London. Soejima's work is in the collections of the National Media Museum, Amana Photo Collection, and the Jeremy Cooper Collection. Soejima's book is included in The Photobook: A History, Volume III by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger. Soejima was a Light Work Artist-in-Residence in January 2015.

A Life in Art: Highlights of Women Artists in OHA's Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit highlights artwork created by local women artists whose work is represented in OHA's collection. The exhibition features over 40 paintings, prints, drawings, and sculptures ranging from the mid-19th century through the end of the 20th century.

Art Makes Cents: Artwork of the M&T Bank Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibition of historic artwork and fanciful coin banks from the collection of Syracuse's M&T Bank.

Majestic Mountain | Shining Sea
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Painters, photographers and ceramists alike have found inspiration in the landscape, drawing on the natural world as a subject, metaphor, and creative force. Taking a generous approach to interpreting the genre, this exhibition brings together an eclectic mix of works from the Everson's collection that highlights landscape's enduring hold on the human imagination. Featured are well-known works by Andrew Wyeth and Ansel Adams as well as little-seen pieces by Robert Arneson, Kenzo Okada, Laura Gilpin and others.

Responsive Eyes
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 1965, the Museum of Modern Art opened The Responsive Eye, a landmark exhibition which featured works by 100 modern artists who used abstract forms to examine how different shapes, patterns and colors could affect the eye of a viewer. Often called "Op Art" due to their relationships to the study of optics and optical illusions, these works appear to move, shimmer or vibrate despite the fact that they are stationary. This exhibition revisits the work of four of the artists included in the seminal survey: Josef Albers, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Frank Stella and Victor Vasarely, as well as their Latin contemporary Jesús Rafael Soto.

Opening: Work Won't Kill You
SALTQuarters Gallery

Price: Free
SALTQuarters Gallery
115 Otisco St., Syracuse

There will be an opening reception this evening 6:00-8:00 pm.

In this ongoing installation and performance series, Patty Ortiz has constructed a simulated work environment that investigates the interaction between art and work in the lives of individuals and the life of the community. The WWKY workforce applies the tools of art in a forensic fashion through the collection and systematic examination of images from the Near Westside neighborhood; people, places and moments that reflect the history and character of this community. Ortiz and her workforce transform the documentation into an installation/performance to illustrate the similar nature of art, work and life.

Thursday, June 2, 2016

April Showers: Technically Irrelevant
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

Featuring works by Sherry Allen, Lauren Bristol, John Fitzsimmons, Robert Kasprzycki, Ken Nichols, Stephanie Roeser, and Penny Santy.

Avida Dollars: Salvador Dalí, Joseph Forêt, and the Three Most Expensive Books in the World
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibition explores the collaboration of Salvador Dalí with Parisian publisher Joseph Forêt, which aimed to produce the three most expensive books in the world between 1956 and 1963. These books are illustrated editions of Dante's The Divine Comedy, Cervantes's Don Quixote, and Saint John's Apocalypse.

Classic Tradition
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Richard Henry and Nikolay Mikushkin: oil painting done in the tradition of plein air landscape, floral and classic still-lifes
Carol Adamec: nature-inspired metal sculpture
Esperanza Tielbaard: nature-themed jewelry

Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

Light Work is pleased to present "Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection." Curated by Erin Carter, "Unnatural Creatures" features Light Work Collection photographers Kanako Sasaki, Laura Aguilar, and Tony Gleaton, among others, whose images explore the strangeness of being alive. "Unnatural Creatures" presents a coming-of-age story with a twist. Primarily focusing on the female body, the exhibition mines themes of gender, aging, and socialization as thought, feeling and perception converge.

Miki Soejima: The Passenger's Present
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

A solo exhibition of work by artist Miki Soejima.

Miki Soejima is a London-based Japanese artist. Soejima's Mrs. Merryman's Collection (MACK, 2012) was the recipient of the First Book Award and is regarded as one of the top photobooks of 2012. Recent exhibitions include The Atkinson Gallery, Southport UK; PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin; Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona; Michael Hoppen Gallery, London; and World Photography Festival and Sony World Photography Awards, Somerset House, London. Soejima's work is in the collections of the National Media Museum, Amana Photo Collection, and the Jeremy Cooper Collection. Soejima's book is included in The Photobook: A History, Volume III by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger. Soejima was a Light Work Artist-in-Residence in January 2015.

Ben Altman: Site/Sight
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

A solo exhibition of work by Ben Altman.

Since 2013, Altman has visited many sites, memorials, and museums related to atrocity and genocide. At these places, emblematic of the violent histories that have formed our contemporary world, it is almost automatic for visitors to raise their smart phones and cameras. Through his own photographs Altman explores this contemporary action and its implications. He groups his photographs to suggest connections between the locations. Site/Sight is one of several of Altman's projects about intractable modern histories.

Ben Altman trained as an artist by studying physics, towing icebergs, racing sailboats, and working as a commercial photographer. After moving to the United States from his native England in the early 1980s he spent 25 years in Chicago, and he now lives near Ithaca. Altman has exhibited work recently in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Asheville, NC, Fort Wayne, IN, and Syracuse. He was awarded the Houston Center for Photography's 2015 Fellowship, included in the 2015 Critical Mass Top 50, and runner-up in Soho Photo Gallery's 2014 National Photography Competition. His project The More That Is Taken Away is fiscally sponsored by Artspire, a program of the New York Foundation for the Arts, and received a Film Finishing Funds grant from the NY State Council on the Arts. In 2014 his Talk Tompkins was awarded an Artist in Community grant from NYSCA. Altman was a resident with 2×2 Collective in 2012 at Sculpture Space, Utica, NY. In addition to photography, Altman works with video, sound, installation, assemblage, and participation. He is represented by Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles.

A Life in Art: Highlights of Women Artists in OHA's Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit highlights artwork created by local women artists whose work is represented in OHA's collection. The exhibition features over 40 paintings, prints, drawings, and sculptures ranging from the mid-19th century through the end of the 20th century.

Art Makes Cents: Artwork of the M&T Bank Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibition of historic artwork and fanciful coin banks from the collection of Syracuse's M&T Bank.

A Good XCuse
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

A Good XCuse features ten ceramic artists who are alumni of Syracuse University's Ceramics Program. The work on view will range from ceramic sculpture to functional pottery. Participating artists include Patrick Coughlin, Ed Feldman, Giselle Hicks, Lynne Hobaica, Jee Eun Lee, Brooke Noble, Jeremy Randall, Jeff Schwarz, Tim See, and Katherine Taylor.

Responsive Eyes
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 1965, the Museum of Modern Art opened The Responsive Eye, a landmark exhibition which featured works by 100 modern artists who used abstract forms to examine how different shapes, patterns and colors could affect the eye of a viewer. Often called "Op Art" due to their relationships to the study of optics and optical illusions, these works appear to move, shimmer or vibrate despite the fact that they are stationary. This exhibition revisits the work of four of the artists included in the seminal survey: Josef Albers, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Frank Stella and Victor Vasarely, as well as their Latin contemporary Jesús Rafael Soto.

Majestic Mountain | Shining Sea
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Painters, photographers and ceramists alike have found inspiration in the landscape, drawing on the natural world as a subject, metaphor, and creative force. Taking a generous approach to interpreting the genre, this exhibition brings together an eclectic mix of works from the Everson's collection that highlights landscape's enduring hold on the human imagination. Featured are well-known works by Andrew Wyeth and Ansel Adams as well as little-seen pieces by Robert Arneson, Kenzo Okada, Laura Gilpin and others.

The Blue of Ruins: Works of Arnaldo Roche Rabell
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The Blue of Ruins features Roche's "blue" paintings and drawings made between 2007 and 2016 that use techniques such as brush drawing, scraping and rubbing on the material's surface to explore what is left of the subject. Many of the works included are still-lifes and the self-portraits, allowing Roche to comment on both the wholesomeness of the artist as subject and his relationship with memory and the world of objects. The exhibition aims to trace the artist's conceptual evolvement from full color to blue, and from an affirmative to an exploded subject.

Arnaldo Roche-Rabell (Puerto Rico, 1955) received his Bachelor's and Master's in Fine Arts from The Art Institute in Chicago. Roche-Rabell's work has been exhibited individually and collectively in museums and galleries like the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (The Puerto Rico Museum of Art), the Chicago Cultural Center, and El Museo del Barrio in New York City. His work is in the collections of many prominent museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute in Chicago, and the Bronx Museum.

Paradise, a world premiere interactive installation
Society for New Music

Price: Free
Loft Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Immerse yourself in the paradisal Garden of Nature by way of this interactive collage of bird and animal sounds from around the world. Create your own rich sonic/visual tapestry which, like nature, will envelop and draw you in. An interactive sound/light installation by Douglas Quin and Lorne Covington, commissioned by the Society for New Music.

Reflections
Society for New Music

Henninger High School
600 Robinson St., Syracuse

Come hear the world premiere of one of the Society's composers-in-the-schools projects. Composer Richard Fields has been working with music teacher and choral conductor Andrea Akins and her chorus. Reflections sets quotations by the chorus members of their personal reflections on peace. In the best tradition of Billie Burdick, SNM board member who began the composers-in-the-schools project 28 years ago, Fields guided the students in a group writing activity focusing on what peace means to them. The activity produced powerful prose and revealed a worldly wisdom that exceeded Fields' expectation.

With the help of the students, he created a three-movement composition: "Meditation" begins with spoken mantras — "Walk in peace," "Live in peace" — plus peace greetings representing the diversity of the Henninger community, accompanied by members of the Henninger Jazz Band led by Rory Edwards. Speaker Nicholas Magari will lead the audience in the mantra and recite the poem by Fields, "Has Peace Lost Its Luster." "Reflection," the second movement, is the setting of the student texts, while the "Conclusion" sets Dona nobis pacem.

Homestyle Homicide: The Freagan Family Reunion
Acme Mystery Company

Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Come a runnin', cousins, 'cause it's time again for the annual family reunion and the whole Freagan family is gonna be there! We're gonna have vittles, singin', hootin' and hollerin' and, of course, no family gathering would be complete without the annual pig-calling contest! Dang, you might even win a big ol' slop bucket full of money! Yeehaw! Best watch your step on the farm this year, though. Pa's been hitting the moonshine a might too hard and is about to lose the farm to that no good snake, Beauregard Hogwallerin! When the girls find out, somebody could end up on the barbecue!

Friday, June 3, 2016

April Showers: Technically Irrelevant
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

Featuring works by Sherry Allen, Lauren Bristol, John Fitzsimmons, Robert Kasprzycki, Ken Nichols, Stephanie Roeser, and Penny Santy.

Avida Dollars: Salvador Dalí, Joseph Forêt, and the Three Most Expensive Books in the World
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibition explores the collaboration of Salvador Dalí with Parisian publisher Joseph Forêt, which aimed to produce the three most expensive books in the world between 1956 and 1963. These books are illustrated editions of Dante's The Divine Comedy, Cervantes's Don Quixote, and Saint John's Apocalypse.

Classic Tradition
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Richard Henry and Nikolay Mikushkin: oil painting done in the tradition of plein air landscape, floral and classic still-lifes
Carol Adamec: nature-inspired metal sculpture
Esperanza Tielbaard: nature-themed jewelry

Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

Light Work is pleased to present "Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection." Curated by Erin Carter, "Unnatural Creatures" features Light Work Collection photographers Kanako Sasaki, Laura Aguilar, and Tony Gleaton, among others, whose images explore the strangeness of being alive. "Unnatural Creatures" presents a coming-of-age story with a twist. Primarily focusing on the female body, the exhibition mines themes of gender, aging, and socialization as thought, feeling and perception converge.

Ben Altman: Site/Sight
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

A solo exhibition of work by Ben Altman.

Since 2013, Altman has visited many sites, memorials, and museums related to atrocity and genocide. At these places, emblematic of the violent histories that have formed our contemporary world, it is almost automatic for visitors to raise their smart phones and cameras. Through his own photographs Altman explores this contemporary action and its implications. He groups his photographs to suggest connections between the locations. Site/Sight is one of several of Altman's projects about intractable modern histories.

Ben Altman trained as an artist by studying physics, towing icebergs, racing sailboats, and working as a commercial photographer. After moving to the United States from his native England in the early 1980s he spent 25 years in Chicago, and he now lives near Ithaca. Altman has exhibited work recently in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Asheville, NC, Fort Wayne, IN, and Syracuse. He was awarded the Houston Center for Photography's 2015 Fellowship, included in the 2015 Critical Mass Top 50, and runner-up in Soho Photo Gallery's 2014 National Photography Competition. His project The More That Is Taken Away is fiscally sponsored by Artspire, a program of the New York Foundation for the Arts, and received a Film Finishing Funds grant from the NY State Council on the Arts. In 2014 his Talk Tompkins was awarded an Artist in Community grant from NYSCA. Altman was a resident with 2×2 Collective in 2012 at Sculpture Space, Utica, NY. In addition to photography, Altman works with video, sound, installation, assemblage, and participation. He is represented by Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles.

Miki Soejima: The Passenger's Present
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

A solo exhibition of work by artist Miki Soejima.

Miki Soejima is a London-based Japanese artist. Soejima's Mrs. Merryman's Collection (MACK, 2012) was the recipient of the First Book Award and is regarded as one of the top photobooks of 2012. Recent exhibitions include The Atkinson Gallery, Southport UK; PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin; Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona; Michael Hoppen Gallery, London; and World Photography Festival and Sony World Photography Awards, Somerset House, London. Soejima's work is in the collections of the National Media Museum, Amana Photo Collection, and the Jeremy Cooper Collection. Soejima's book is included in The Photobook: A History, Volume III by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger. Soejima was a Light Work Artist-in-Residence in January 2015.

A Life in Art: Highlights of Women Artists in OHA's Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit highlights artwork created by local women artists whose work is represented in OHA's collection. The exhibition features over 40 paintings, prints, drawings, and sculptures ranging from the mid-19th century through the end of the 20th century.

Art Makes Cents: Artwork of the M&T Bank Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibition of historic artwork and fanciful coin banks from the collection of Syracuse's M&T Bank.

A Good XCuse
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

A Good XCuse features ten ceramic artists who are alumni of Syracuse University's Ceramics Program. The work on view will range from ceramic sculpture to functional pottery. Participating artists include Patrick Coughlin, Ed Feldman, Giselle Hicks, Lynne Hobaica, Jee Eun Lee, Brooke Noble, Jeremy Randall, Jeff Schwarz, Tim See, and Katherine Taylor.

Majestic Mountain | Shining Sea
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Painters, photographers and ceramists alike have found inspiration in the landscape, drawing on the natural world as a subject, metaphor, and creative force. Taking a generous approach to interpreting the genre, this exhibition brings together an eclectic mix of works from the Everson's collection that highlights landscape's enduring hold on the human imagination. Featured are well-known works by Andrew Wyeth and Ansel Adams as well as little-seen pieces by Robert Arneson, Kenzo Okada, Laura Gilpin and others.

Responsive Eyes
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 1965, the Museum of Modern Art opened The Responsive Eye, a landmark exhibition which featured works by 100 modern artists who used abstract forms to examine how different shapes, patterns and colors could affect the eye of a viewer. Often called "Op Art" due to their relationships to the study of optics and optical illusions, these works appear to move, shimmer or vibrate despite the fact that they are stationary. This exhibition revisits the work of four of the artists included in the seminal survey: Josef Albers, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Frank Stella and Victor Vasarely, as well as their Latin contemporary Jesús Rafael Soto.

The Blue of Ruins: Works of Arnaldo Roche Rabell
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The Blue of Ruins features Roche's "blue" paintings and drawings made between 2007 and 2016 that use techniques such as brush drawing, scraping and rubbing on the material's surface to explore what is left of the subject. Many of the works included are still-lifes and the self-portraits, allowing Roche to comment on both the wholesomeness of the artist as subject and his relationship with memory and the world of objects. The exhibition aims to trace the artist's conceptual evolvement from full color to blue, and from an affirmative to an exploded subject.

Arnaldo Roche-Rabell (Puerto Rico, 1955) received his Bachelor's and Master's in Fine Arts from The Art Institute in Chicago. Roche-Rabell's work has been exhibited individually and collectively in museums and galleries like the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (The Puerto Rico Museum of Art), the Chicago Cultural Center, and El Museo del Barrio in New York City. His work is in the collections of many prominent museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute in Chicago, and the Bronx Museum.

Work Won't Kill You
SALTQuarters Gallery

Price: Free
SALTQuarters Gallery
115 Otisco St., Syracuse

In this ongoing installation and performance series, Patty Ortiz has constructed a simulated work environment that investigates the interaction between art and work in the lives of individuals and the life of the community. The WWKY workforce applies the tools of art in a forensic fashion through the collection and systematic examination of images from the Near Westside neighborhood; people, places and moments that reflect the history and character of this community. Ortiz and her workforce transform the documentation into an installation/performance to illustrate the similar nature of art, work and life.

2016 Taste of Syracuse

Price: Free
Clinton Square
Downtown, Syracuse

ENTERTAINMENT

Main Stage:
12:00-1:30 pm: Lori Anne's tribute to the Oldies
5:30-7:50 pm: Taste of Vinyl Albums Live featuring music of The Eagles, Bruce Springsteen, and Rolling Stones
8:15-9:10 pm: Gridley Paige
9:30-11:00 pm: Under The Gun

Erie Stage
12:00-1:30 pm: Tim Herron
4:30-5:30 pm: Golden Novak Band
5:45-6:45 pm: Ruha w/Charlie Orlando
7:00-8:00 pm: Simplelife
8:15-9:15 pm: Soul Risin'
9:30-11:00 pm: Eman Presents "Off The Wall" a Tribute to Michael Jackson

Clinton Square Stage
12:00-1:30 pm: Just Joe
3:15-4:15 pm: My So Called Band
4:35-5:35 pm: What About Bob
5:55-7:25 pm: The Barndogs
7:45-9:10 pm: Stroke
9:30-11:00 pm: Prime Time

Paradise, a world premiere interactive installation
Society for New Music

Price: Free
Loft Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

There will be an opening reception this evening 5:00-7:00 pm in Sutton Pavilion.

Immerse yourself in the paradisal Garden of Nature by way of this interactive collage of bird and animal sounds from around the world. Create your own rich sonic/visual tapestry which, like nature, will envelop and draw you in. An interactive sound/light installation by Douglas Quin and Lorne Covington, commissioned by the Society for New Music.

Jumpin' Jazz Jam
Liverpool High School
Featuring CNY Jazz Orchestra and Chris Vadala

Price: $10
Liverpool High School Auditorium
4338 Wetzel Rd., Liverpool

Performances by Soule Road Middle School Jazz Band, Liverpool High School Stage Band, Liverpool High School Jazz Ensemble, and Liverpool High School Vocal Jazz Ensemble, with special guests The CNY Jazz Orchestra and Chris Vadala.

Tickets available here.

Dashon Burton, baritone; Christopher Janwong Mckiggan, piano
Geneva Music Festival

First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles
97 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

This concert features first-time GMF artist Dashon Burton along with returning festival favorite Christopher Janwong McKiggan for a remarkable pairing. Grammy award winner and founding member of the vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth, Dashon Burton will perform an elegant rendition of lieder, art songs, and spirituals. Join us as we celebrate the different spirits that move us, both sacred and secular. From the sublime poetry of George Herbert to the ridiculous settings of Poulenc, we are all bound together by the human experience. These songs explore people's struggles with mortality, their praise of joie de vivre, and, of course the always-fleeting pleasures of wine and dance.

For more information, visit genevamusicfestival.com.

Double Bill: Golden Novak Duo and Kevin Barrigar
Folkus Project

Price: $15 regular, members free
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Spend an evening full of passion, attitude, and exceptional talent.

Jess Novak and Brian Golden felt an instant connection when they first jammed together in July 2013. Within weeks of meeting, the two worked together on Novak's solo album, Bad Habit, and have continued their musical connection — one where passion and talent meet. The powerhouse duo brings blues, rock and singer/songwriter choice covers and soulful originals to life through guitar, percussion, violin and voice. As a duo, Golden and Novak perform their large catalogue of original music as well as covers spanning B.B. King to Bruce Springsteen to Amy Winehouse to TLC.

Golden has been playing guitar for 24 years and been in bands including Bad Weather Blues, The Pub Crawlers, Fools at Play, Master Thieves, The VooDoo Mystics and Lunar Stew. Novak has been playing violin since the age of seven and performed throughout the Northeast with bands including Master Thieves, Shining Star Band and Jess and The Beards. Her album, "Bad Habit" was nominated for a SAMMY Award and she has been nominated twice for Best Female Vocalist in the Best of Syracuse competition.

Kevin Barrigar brings exceptional guitar skills and a whole lot of attitude to his own unique arrangements. Born ninth in a musical family, Barrigar's talent showed early—singing Elvis with his families band The Christophers. Kevin has shared the stage with the likes of Joe Whiting, fiddle great Hal Casey, world class guitar great Tommy Emmanuel, and 5 time grammy winner Lloyd Maines. Besides a solo act, Kevin performs with his brother Loren, a world class fingerpicker. Barrigar released his debut CD in 2009 entitled Since I Got You. He was also the 2013 WOLF Radio Local Winner of the Texico Country Showdown.

Ringo Starr and his All Starr Band
Lakeview Empower FCU Amphitheater

Lakeview Amphitheater
490 Restoration Way, Syracuse

The former Beatles drummer will perform with his All-Starr Band, which includes Todd Rundgren, Gregg Rolie, Steve Lukather, and Richard Page.

Tickets for Lakeview Amphitheater concerts are available through Live Nation/Ticketmaster, the Oncenter Box Office, and by phone at 1-800-745-3000.

Bill Burr: Plowin' Ahead

War Memorial at Oncenter
800 S. State St., Syracuse

Tickets available at the Oncenter Box Office or online at Ticketmaster.

Disney's The Little Mermaid
Redhouse
Stephen Svoboda, director

Price: $30
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Based on the classic animated film, Disney's The Little Mermaid is a splashy and touching love story for all ages. With music by eight-time Academy Award winner Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Glenn Slater, and book by Doug Wright, this fishy fable will capture your heart with its irresistible songs including "Under the Sea," "Kiss the Girl," and "Part of Your World."

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*CANCELLED* New Beginning concert
Central New York Playhouse
Featuring Shakeif

Price: $10 in advance, $12 at the door
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt