CAMPUS EVENTS

As It Happens: Artists-in-Residence at Light Work
Monday- Fri Jun 1, 10AM- 6Pm
Light Work Gallery

Josh Brilliant curates a selection of images by recent Light Work Artists-in-Residence, including Amy Stein, Kelli Connell, Cristina Fraire, Krista Steinke, and Christine Osinski. Brilliant is currently an MFA candidate in the Museum Studies program at Syracuse University.

“Limbo”

Mon-Fri Jun 1, 10AM- 6PM
Light Work Gallery
“Limbo” is a depiction of a graceful yet unusually honest and insightful snapshot of Eritrea, an East African country suspended in an unsettled state between war and peace. Years of unrest have left the people of Eritrea waiting for life to improve. The images in “Limbo” capture both destruction and construction, both the unhealed wounds of war and a fierce optimism and hope for a brighter future.His photographic projects look at the ideas of identity, history, and the re-evaluation of our relationship with historical process.

Window Projects: Museum of the City of Lost and Found
Mon-Fri Jun 1, 12AM- 11:59PM
The Warehouse Gallery

Window Projects is a combination of hexagram patterns of i-ching collaboratively painted on the wall by the artist, community members, faculty and students at Syracuse University; miniature “igloo” and cast resin objects; and a short video of Wilson’s bicycle (mobile museum) performance in New Orleans. Wilson invites audience participation by filling out Lost and Found Report cards (available throughout the exhibition), her method of collecting stories about viewers’ personal losses, chances, findings and discoveries.

Vicktory Dogs Exhibition
Mon-Fri Jun 1, 12PM-4PM
The Warehouse Gallery

Pit bulls victimized in the notorious dog-fighting ring of former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick are the subject of the exhibition. “Vicktory Dogs” is the brainchild of Cyrus Mejia, who, along with his wife and a group of animal lovers, founded Best Friends Animal Society, the nation’s largest sanctuary for abused and abandoned animals.The exhibition features giclée prints of 22 dogs rescued by Best Friends after Vick’s indictment. By depicting the dogs up close in his painting, Mejia hopes people will confront their own prejudices about pit bulls in general and will think twice about exploiting them or fearing them, or both.

Sound Scores: Paper, Wood, Stone and Glass
Mon-Fri Jun 1, 12PM-4:30PM
The Warehouse Gallery

The exhibition is an installation composed of audio and video pieces as well as photographs, prints and sculpture. They emphasize the visual nature of sound scores, shedding light on this complex, seemingly inaccessible medium called sound art. In Vitiello’s work viewers will see a shift from landscape photographs to abstract black-and-white prints that continue to refer to landscape through black lines that evoke both reeds and musical notes.

Threads of a Culture: Hadbakah Images by Selma Hurwitz
Mon-Fri Jun 1, 9AM- 5PM
Winnick Hillel Center for Jewish Life, Syracuse University

This exhibit portrays personal and social themes of universal impact, as well as basic motifs of love, beauty, valor and tyranny.Instead of using a brush, the artist glues various individual threads, particularly those that are metalized, to a specially prepared surface. Careful planning of thread direction and location, as well as meticulous maneuvering of the threads during the gluing process, achieves the desired shading and design.For more information about the exhibition, contact April Maw at 315-443-7095 or aamaw@syr.edu.

COMMUNITY EVENTS

Postcards to (and from!) the Past
Mon-Fri Jun1, 9AM-7PM
Downtown Writer’s Center and Gallery
This exhibit is a collaboration between the Arts Branch of the YMCA’s after school arts program at Salem Hyde Elementary School, the Onondaga Historical Association, and Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts. On display at the YMCA will be replications of over 100 century-old postcards mailed back and forth between students in the YMCA’s program (asking questions of various historical figures from the Syracuse area), and staff members of the OHA (who responded to the students’ questions in character). Sometimes poignant, sometimes funny, the kids’ questions show an active engagement with their own history—and the postcards themselves are a delight to anyone interested in the area’s past. The exhibit is continued across the street at the OHA, and guests are invited and encouraged to visit both galleries to see the complete show.

The Gallery as Studio: Drawings on Delirium
Mon-Fri Jun 1, 9AM-2PM
Point of Contact Gallery
A world-renowned Uruguayan artist, Ricardo Lanzarini comes from Montevideo to Syracuse to recreate the mundane and the extraordinary in his drawings on delirium made to unexpected scales. The exhibition comes to life at The Point of Contact Gallery where the space has turned into an artist’s studio. The work of the exhibit is to be produced entirely on site and directly onto the walls of the gallery in the weeks leading up to the opening. Lanzarini’s work balances extremes of scale, crafting an extensive abstract image from precise, minuscule characters, whose everyday activities serve as a window into a miniature world, frozen in time. These drawings sarcastically explore the two major paradigms in figurative art of the 20th century: Social and Fantastic Realism.

Spring Loaded
Mon-Fri Jun 1, 9PM-4PM
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery
Associated Artists of Syracuse
The exhibition brings the Associated Artists of Syracuse and features works by Joan Applebaum, Lesley Brooks, A. Brooks Decker, Lorraine Doyle, Joy Englehart, Marcia Ferber, Roscha Folger, Patricia Gancarz, Mimi George, Helga Gilber, Carol Ginsky, Marion Lapham, Howard McLaughlin, Kathleen O’Brien, Ute Oestreicher, E.A. Pilbeam, Mary Raineri, Pamela Sunshine, Yolanda Tooley, and Clara Towell.

Curious Works
Mon-Sat Jun 1, 10AM-6PM
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
This exhibition includes painting by Kyle Mort, money prints and collages by
Curtis W. Readel, and small assemblies by Roger Bisbing.

The Curiosity of Change
Tue-Sat Jun 2, varied times
Edgewood Gallery
Drawings and paintings by Anne Novado-Cappuccilli and works in stone by John Lombardi.

37th Annual Teen Art Exhibition
Tue-Sat Jun 2, 10AM-6PM
Community Folk Art Center
CFAC is honored to host the longest running collaborative exhibition in the Greater Syracuse area that features the work of under-represented teen artists.
Participating students attend Syracuse City High Schools and suburban Onondaga County High Schools. A panel of professional local artists serve as judges for the competition. Prizes are awarded to winners in two-dimensional and three-dimensional categories.

PostSecret
Tue-Sun Jun 2, 12PM-5PM
Everson Museum of Art

In November 2004, Frank Warren began a community art project by handing out postcards to strangers and leaving them in public places in his Washington, D.C. neighborhood. Each self-addressed card invited people to anonymously share a secret. Two requirements were: the secret had to be true and it had to be something that had never been told to another person. Today Warren has been mailed more than 100,000 highly personal and artfully decorated postcards illustrating the soulful secrets never voiced. This extraordinary project has become an international phenomenon with thousands of people participating in scheduled PostSecret events throughout the United States, and through the PostSecret website and blog. This exhibition features 450 postcards bringing together the most powerful, poignant and beautifully intimate secrets Warren has received in the past four years.

Crowns
Wed-Sun Jun 2, varied times
Syracuse Stage
Get ready for some soul stirring, funny and powerful stories, stories from the church elders, stories with hattitude, enough hattitude to set the choir singing.
That’s hattitude, as in hat, as in Crown, as in the elegant cranial adornments favored by certain elegant church-going ladies of the South. Sing about it, dance
about it, boast about it, even dream about it, a Crown is a joyous expression of
culture and tradition, and as we find in this rollicking celebratory play by Regina Taylor, tradition and culture can be just the balm to salve the wounded soul. That’s worth singing about whether the style is gospel, freedom song or hip-hop.

Fusion
Thurs-Sat Jun4, varied times
Delavan Art Gallery
The exhibition included paintinfs by John F. Fitzsimmons, mixed media collage by Diana Godfrey, metal and glass wall sculptures by Pam Steele, and acrylics and monotypes by Catharine Westlake.

Tanks & Trees: The War Show
Thurs-Sat Jun4, 5:30PM-10PM
Orange Line Gallery
A soldier’s intimate look at Iraq. Featuring photographs from Steven Robinson,
photos and video from anonymous sources, and video from the Syracuse Peace
Council.

For a full list of events visit Syracuse Arts.