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February 27 – March 8
Looking & Looking: Photos by Amy Elkins and Jen Davis
Light Work Gallery, Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery, 316 Waverly Ave.
Price: Free
Jen Davis and Amy Elkins create work that focuses on gaze and identity, with Davis looking at herself and Elkins looking at young male athletes. The images in the exhibition explore the perception of how men and women are supposed to appear in society — men should be strong and confident, women should be beautiful — and the crafting of a self-image. Gallery Reception: Thursday, February 23, 5-7pm.

February 27 – May 31
The Power and The Piety: The World of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Price: Free
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.

February 27 – March 23
FOR_PLAY
Slocum Hall Gallery
Price: Free
An exhibition of projects by Slade Architecture of New York City designed for or including an element of play. Opening reception: January 31, 6pm.

February 27 – August 31
For Syracuse, 2010; Jenny Holzer
Syracuse Stage, 820 East Genesee St.
Light Work and the Urban Video Project are pleased to announce the opening of an installation by internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer at the Urban Video Project site at Syracuse Stage, 820 East Genesee Street, Syracuse, NY. Holzer created For Syracuse as a site-specific installation that streams across the façade 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.

February 28 – March 18
Emilio Sanchez: No Way Home–Images of the Caribbean and New York City
SU Art Galleries, Shaffer Art Building
“No Way Home” features a selection of 25 paintings, watercolors, drawings and prints drawn from the recently acquired collection of work by Cuban American artist Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999). Best known for his brightly colored, strongly shadowed images of Caribbean and New York City architecture, this exhibition reveals the artist’s ongoing interest in repetitive patterns.

February 28 – March 18
Pressing Print: Contemporary Prints and Process from Universal Limited Art Editions
SU Art Galleries, Shaffer Art Building
“Pressing Print: Contemporary Prints and Process from Universal Limited Art Editions” chronicles the recent decade of artwork published by one of the most renowned American printmaking workshops. The exhibition of 60 works illustrates the impact that artists like Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Helen Frankenthaler and Kiki Smith have had on contemporary art, evident through the work of artists Jason Middelbrook, Amy Cutler and Jane Hammond. The show also illustrates how emerging artists recently selected to work with ULAE has influenced the current trend, in both process and concept.

Weekend and evening visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces are not available, the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

February 29 – March 4
The Lower Depths; Gerardine Clark, director
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage, 820 E. Genesee St.
A masterpiece of Russian realism, The Lower Depths was Maxim Gorky’s first great play and its premiere production in 1902 helped establish the reputation of the famed Moscow Art Theatre and its influential director Constantine Stanislavsky. In the cave-like basement of a run-down boarding house, a disparate group of bosyák (literally, the barefoot) — outcasts, petty criminals and day laborers — negotiate days lived between harsh truth and consoling lies. With little hope or light in their lives, Gorky’s finely detailed and psychologically rich characters manage to celebrate what Stanislavsky called the play’s spiritual essence: “freedom, whatever happens!”

February 29, 6:45pm
Wednesday Film Series: Powers of Ten
Slocum Hall Gallery
Price:Free
Charles and Ray Eames, 1977, 9 minutes

February 29, 8pm
Prism Concert
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Price:Free
Prism is a unique 360-degree panoramic concert where darkness and light intertwine. Performances take place in many locations throughout the auditorium, surrounding the audience. Many talented student groups and soloists will be showcased for the 13th annual Prism concert, including a cappella groups the Mandarins, Orange Appeal, and newly formed Otto Tunes; a musical theater number by the new First-Year Players cast; the Brazilian Ensemble; and singer/songwriter Sarah Aument.

Free parking is available in the Irving Garage; patrons should mention that they are attending the concert.

March 1, 6pm
Memory and Commemoration, as Fact or Fiction; Featuring Anna Schuleit
Watson Auditorium, Menschel Media Center, 316 Waverly Ave.
Price: Free
“Memory and Commemoration, as Fact or Fiction” is a new cross-disciplinary speaker series on art, memory, community and commemoration.

Anna Schuleit, internationally prominent visual artist and a 2006 recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, will present some of her powerful public art installations that deal with memory, community and regeneration.

Parking for the public is available for $4 in Booth Garage.

March 1, 7:30pm
Women’s Choir Invitational Concert
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Price:Free
The SU Women’s Choir, under the direction of Barbara M. Tagg, will host the Pine Grove Girl Choir, directed by Aimee deBergeois. The Pine Grove Girl Choir will present Viva la Musica by Mark Weston, When I Close My Eyes by Jim Papoulis, Al Shlosha D’Varim by Allan E. Naplan, and Lollipop, the 1950s hit tune by the Chordettes. The SU Women’s Choir’s repertoire will include Domine Deus by J. S. Bach, Lux Aeterna (Eternal Light) by Michelle Roueché, This Little Light of Mine arranged by Ysaye Barnwell, and Paul Caldwell and Sean Ivory’s Lay Earth’s Burden Down. The two choirs will combine for the concert finale, which includes Lowell Mason’s O Music and Amazing Grace, arranged by Francisco Nuñéz.

Free parking is available in the Irving Garage; patrons should mention that they are attending the concert.

March 1 – 4
Durang in Duet; Katie Lynch, director
Black Box Theater, Syracuse Stage, 820 E. Genesee St.
Price: Free
Durang in Duet is an evening of two short plays, Canker Sores and Other Distractions and For Who the Southern Belle Tolls, written by Christopher Durang. Durang is an American playwright know for works of outrageous and often absurd comedy.

Canker Sores and Other Distractions takes place in a restaurant with an ex-husband and wife meeting for one of the first times after their divorce. A disagreeable waitress causes an obstacle while the two characters develop several afflictions that cause them to remember why they divorced in the first place.

For Who the Southern Belle Tolls is a parody of Tenessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie. It takes place on the night that Tom brings home a lady friend for his crippled brother, Lawrence. The play is an absurd and hilarious take on the Wingfield family that Tennesse Williams made famous in The Glass Menagerie.

March 1 – May 27
William Wegman
Syracuse Stage, 820 East Genesee St.
The video, “Flo Flow”, is Wegman’s latest in a long line of human-canid collaborations. It was while he was in Long Beach in the 1970′s that Wegman got his dog, Man Ray, with whom he began a fruitful collaboration of many years. Man Ray, known in the art world and beyond for his endearing deadpan presence, became a central figure in Wegman’s photographs and videotapes. Ever since, Weimaraner-actors have peopled Wegman’s uncanny imaginative universe, a reflection on both the human-ness of ‘animals’ and the strangeness of humans.

March 3, 5pm
Fiona Andrews, Senior Voice Recital
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Price:Free
Andrews is a senior voice performance major in the Setnor School of Music. The program will include works by Mozart, Barber, Rorem, Menotti, Debussy, and Chopin.

Free parking is available in Waverly, Harrison, or Lehman lots.

March 4, 2pm
SU Symphony Orchestra
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Price:Free
The SU Symphony Orchestra will perform.

Free parking is available in the Irving Garage; patrons should mention that they are attending the concert.

COMMUNITY

February 27 – February 29
Salon: Strictly Local
Syracuse Technology Garden, 235 Harrison St.
Price: Free
The exhibit will feature works by over 50 local artists.

February 27 – March 15
Constrain/Contain
The Point of Contact Gallery, 914 East Genesee St
Price: Free
Environment art by Sam Horowitz

February 28 – May 13
From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland
Everson Museum of Art, 401 Harrison St.
Price: Suggested donation $5 adults
“From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland” is the first exhibition to examine the American artist’s work focused on the Irish landscape and people, particularly children, created between the time of his first trip to Ireland in 1913 and his last trip there in 1928. Long celebrated as an iconic American artist due to his important early work as a teacher and as the leader of The Eight, Henri’s paintings have received less attention on their own. Most projects explored his career as it related to his role as a member of The Eight or in a broadly retrospective manner. Few projects focused on his landscapes, drawings, or foreign portraits.

February 28 – May 10
The Photographer as a Child: Memories from Guatemala
The La Casita Cultural Center, 109 Otisco St.
La Casita will host the works of Efren Lopez.

February 28 – March 4
John Knecht: Fragments from the Wheels of Ezekiel
Everson Museum of Art, 401 Harrison St.
Price: Suggested donation $5
John Knecht is the featured artist for the Urban Video Project in January and February. In conjunction with the exhibition of “Deluge and Anima” on the Everson’s north façade, a series of Knecht’s animations, called “Fragments from the Wheels of Ezekiel,” will be on view inside the museum. The Fragments, individual animations displayed on monitors, provide a glimpse into the artist’s brilliant imagination, where fantasy collides with vivid colors and quirky sounds.

February 28 – March 31
Works by W. Michelle Harris and Michael Roman
Community Folk Art Center, 805 E. Genesee St
Our spring exhibition features recent work by Rochester Institute of Technology associate professor and artist W. Michelle Harris and Atlanta-based artist and Syracuse University alum Michael Roman. These two young artists embrace questions of gender, identity, and societal expectations.

While the materials used by each artist sit at the opposite ends of the technological spectrum, both individuals seek to examine topics of an interrelated and highly personal nature.

February 28 – March 24
Sick at Home: Works of Tonja Torgerson
Craft Chemistry, 745 N. Salina St.
Artist Statement: Notions of privacy and disclosure are at the core of my work. My portraits and figures deal with the reality of illness while balancing a thin line between expression and discretion. They explore the internal and external factors that compose one’s identity. While these topics could be divisive, the use of color, humor, and childish aesthetic keeps my work welcoming. Vomit, blood and bile appear alongside pinks, paisley and sweet poses. I am interested in this collision of attraction and disgust, and how it creates a difficult beauty and a pleasant anxiety. My work presents a personal side of an ever-increasingly political issue through a girlish lens of soft aesthetics and sad whimsy.

Tonja is currently pursuing an MFA in printmaking at Syracuse University.

February 28, 7pm
With Syracuse International Film Festival, Science and Magic in Film: Fellini Satyricon (1969)
Redhouse, 201 S. West St.
Price: $8 regular, $5 members
Film and discussion with guest Jeffrey Gorney, writer, photographer and actor.

This Oscar-nominated Italian fantasy drama, written and directed by Federico Fellini, is loosely based on Petronius’s work, “Satyricon”, a series of bawdy and satirical episodes written during the reign of the emperor Nero and set in imperial Rome. Fellini has described this film as “science fiction of the past,” as though the Romans of that decadent age were being observed by the astounded inhabitants of a flying saucer. Curiously enough, in this effort of objectivity, the director has created a film that is so subjective as to warrant psychoanalysis.

February 29 – March 17
Men Only: Vernacular Photographs of Male Affection
ArtRage Gallery, 505 Hawley Ave.
Price: Free
This exhibit of works from the collection of William Knodel looks at masculinity, gender and sexuality in our society. William Knodel was a college student in the 1970s in New York City when he purchased his first second-hand snapshot, a group of young men in assorted swimming attire whose style dated them back to the turn of the century, posing before a camp tent marked with a sign, “Men Only.” Since then, he’s collected vernacular images of male affection — tintypes, daguerreotypes and photos — during his travels to the West Coast, Canada, and Europe, scouring second-hand shops, old photo sales and used book stores. His collection now runs into the hundreds, dating from the mid-19th century and featuring couples and socializing groups from every race and social class. “Men Only” is a gift that incarnates the “gay spirit” that his good friend Harry Hay warned us must be kept alive and a history too often dismissed.

February 29 – March 4
VPA Faculty Show Part II
XL Projects, 307-313 S. Clinton St.
Price: Free
Part two of an exhibition of work by faculty in S.U.’s College of Visual and Performing Arts. For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours or e-mail Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com.

February 29 – March 4
Envisionary
Szozda Gallery, 501 W. Fayette St.
Visionary paintings of the atmospheric changes that surround us by Emily Elizabeth. Landscape paintings of the CNY scenery by Phil Parson.

February 29, 12:30pm
Michael Dubaniewicz, saxophone; Maryna Mazhukhova, piano
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum, 401 Harrison St.
Price: Free
Novel, thrilling program of Phil Woods Alto Saxophone Sonata employing improvisation, Scriabin Preludes, Op. 74, and more. Parking available in the OnCenter Garage: maximum $2.50 with CMM stamped ticket.

February 29, 7pm
Jazz @ Pastabilities with John Rhode Quartet
Pastabilities Restaurant, 311 South Franklin St.
Join us every Wednesday for live jazz with the John Rhode trio around 7:00pm!

March 1 – 17
Beautiful Child; Roy Van Nostrand, director
Jazz Central, 441 E. Washington St.
How do we love someone who falls outside our moral code? A couple’s marriage is called into question when their son comes home for lunch and asks to stay. The world’s no longer safe for their son as his secrets are about to become public. They want to help their son, who was once a beautiful child. They want to love him. But how? They arrive at a decision that’s painful and restorative. This show is intended for mature audiences only. By Nicky Silver.
Preview: Thursday, March 1, 2012, 8:00 PM (Price: $10)
Friday, March 2, 2012, 8:00 PM (Price: $25)
March 3 – 17 (Price: $20)

March 1 – May 12
Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery, 350 W. Fayette St.
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.

March 1 – May 12
Noriko Ambe: Inner Water
The Warehouse Gallery, 350 W. Fayette St.
Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery presents New York City based Japanese artist Noriko Ambe in her first US museum solo show. Ambe will create a new site-specific installation in the main gallery reflecting the tragic 2011 events in Japan through the use of video projections, and her signature large scale paper cutouts that evoke waves.

March 2, 11pm
Black Box Cabaret: Simply Sondheim
Dolce Vita, 907 E. Genesee St.
Price: Free

March 2 – 18
Reaching for Marsby; Len Fonte, director
BeVard Room, Mulroy Civic Center, 411 Montgomery St.
Price: $22 regular, $20 students/seniors
Reaching for Marsby, the second staged comedy by former Post-Standard humor columnist Jeff Kramer, follows brash, bumbling American actor Gary Blenkinsopp, who travels to England in an attempt to save his career. Mayhem ensues in his theater world. The cast features Mark Eischen, Moe Harrington, Kris Rusho, Michael O’Neill, Karis Wiggins, Brendon Cole and Peter Moller.

Tickets, with processing fees added, also be purchased by calling the box office at 315-435-2121 or by going to ticketmaster.com.

March 4, 2pm
Live! At The Everson: A Wrinkle in Time With Rothko; Featuring Lauren Dunseath, cello and Marc Giosi, piano
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum, 401 Harrison St.
Beethoven Cello Sonata, op. 69, plus works by De Falla, Aleksandra Vrebalov, and a world premiere by Syracusan David Byrne.
Price: $15 adults, students free