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This Past Week In Syracuse!
Syracuse, NY — Members of The Media Unit took their show on the road, literally, performing on a Centro bus Wednesday.
The Media Unit, a local teen performance and production troupe, performed “Severely Normal,” an original musical theater piece about teens in the mental health system.
The theater piece portrays members of a teen therapy group arriving for a meeting that was cancelled at the last minute. They conduct the group on their own and slowly learn to shed their masks and share their experiences with anger, aggression, abuse and other issues of internal conflict.
They performed on the Connective Corridor bus route that runs from Gifford Street to College Place and back.
Their performance included monologues, three musical numbers and dance routines.
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Mark Your Calendars: Next Friday at Sculpture Space
Friday April 20, 2012 5:30-7:30
Sculpture Space: 12 Gates Street , Utica, NY 13502
The public is invited to attend a free Works-in-Progress Program and Reception on Friday, April 20 from 5:30 to 7:30 pm, at the Sculpture Space studio. The restaurant sponsor is Symeon’s Greek Restaurant, 4941 Commercial Drive, Yorkville, NY.
The community will have the opportunity to view intriguing contemporary sculptures and installations in a wide range of media by emerging artists: Judith Hoffman (Brooklyn, NY), Zaq Landsberg (Brooklyn, NY), Juliana Cerqueira Leite (Brooklyn, NY), and Vered Sivan (New York, NY).
About the Artists:
Judith Hoffman lives in New York City. She attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and holds an MFA from Pratt Institute. Her work has been exhibited at national locations including Art in Odd Places, NY (2011), The Soap Factory, MN (2011), Center for Contemporary Art, NM (2011), Kesting Ray, NY (2010), Art in General, NY (2010), ArtBasel Miami, FL (2009), and Deitch Projects (2006). She has been a resident at the Santa Fe Art Institute, Wayne State University and Vermont Studio Center. Hoffman was nominated for the 2012 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant.
Zaq Landsberg is a Brooklyn based artist. He has shown his work internationally and has lectured in New York City, Los Angeles, Buenos Aires, Baltimore, and Chicago. His past projects have included a giant cowering piñata and a 1:1 scale Stealth Fighter covered in Astroturf. Originally from Los Angeles, CA, he holds a BFA from NYU. He specializes in large scale, site-specific sculptures, absurd objects and potentially treasonous conceptual art projects.
Juliana Cerqueira Leite completed an MFA Sculpture at London’s Slade School of Fine Art in 2006, followed by an MA in Drawing at Camberwell College of Art. She has since exhibited her work internationally with recent group shows in Lithuania, California and London including Newspeak at the Saatchi Gallery, Bold Tendencies IV at the Hannah Barry Gallery, the 4th Marrakech Biennial and recently a solo show at Galleria Lorcan O’Neill in Rome. Juliana is recipient of the 2006 Kenneth Armitage Sculpture Prize and the 2010-11 A.I.R. Gallery Fellowship. Her work is held in private collections in New York and London. Juliana Cerqueira Leite’s work engages the history of figurative art. Leite makes use of physically demanding activities such as digging, rolling, climbing, and falling, to resolve sculptural concerns, approaching these themes also through drawings, photography and video.
Vered Sivan has been living and working in New York since 2005. Sivan is represented by Rooster Gallery New York, where she last had a multidisciplinary solo exhibition composed of performance, installation, photography, video and sculpture. Sivan holds a BFA by the Tel Aviv University, Israel and MFA Fine Art from the School of Visual Arts, NY. She was a resident at the Instituto Sacatar, Bahia Brazil with a scholarship granted by UNESCO/Aschberg. Sivan has shown at Perry Rubinstein Gallery, Rooster Gallery NY, Scope International Art Fair, Rush Arts Gallery, Bat Yam Museum of Contemporary Art Israel, Photosynthesis Gallery tel Aviv and more. Sivan is scheduled for a solo exhibition at the Jewish Museum in Castelo de Vide, Portugal.
For more information, please email info@sculpturespace.org
A Project In Utica Needs Help
Trace
by Ann Reichlin
3,000 narcissus bulbs will be planted in October 2012 along the vanished foundation walls of several demolished homes that once stood along Whitesboro Street as part of my community-based project, Trace. Each year the narcissus will emerge then disappear, momentarilly revealing a trace of the former density that once defined this struggling Utica, New York neighborhood.
Trace will enable me to begin a new phase of Interventions at 914 Whitesboro Street, the ongoing series of site-works that I have been creating on Sculpture Space grounds since 1998. Over the years I have witnessed the inevitable changes in the neighborhood. Whereas my first two pieces, Insert (1998) and Solitary View (2001) have been demolished along with the abandoned house that once hosted them, Translucent Home(2008) still stands on the former house site. Translucent Home has become part of the neighborhood even as the neighborhood has continued to change around it.
In 2006, with the help of community members, I planted 500 narcissus bulbs on the prior footprint of a house that once stood next to Translucent Home. Trace takes this idea a step further by re-imagining the historic urban form of this once densely populated neighborhood. Trace creates a deeper context for Translucent Home and develops one of the core ideas underlying my multiple interventions on Whitesboro Street—-the notion that places that we think we know in a specific and fixed way are really in a perpetual state of flux.
Gardening is universal. Trace uses this universal quality to explore a moment in the neighborhood’s past. I believe that by uncovering a moment in the neighborhood’s past, Trace can be a catalyst for imagining its future.
The money raised will purchase the bulbs, help amend the soil, and pay for the labor to prepare the sites. Additional funds raised will be spent on travel expenses, publicity and additional signage. Thank you for your support.
Steamrolled Art!
Students hang the finished product , a printed muslin after the students in the printmaking program at Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts, rolled ink on engraved wood blocks that would be steam rolled by an industrial steam roller. This occured on the university quad is called the 5TH Annual “Steamroller Printing” event.
by Dennis Nett/The Post-Standard
