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Memories and PremonitionsAUGUST 30 THROUGH OCTOBER 21, 2012
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RIGHTBen Shahndetail: The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti, 1967
COVERKarl SchragOvergrown Path, 1962
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Domenic J. IaconoDirector, SUArt Galleries
Once again the SUArt Galleries is planning an ambitious year of exhibitions and
programming for our students, faculty, staff, and local community. We begin the
academic year with the August 30th opening of the retrospective exhibition Karl
Schrag: Memories and Premonitions. 2012 is the centennial of Schrag’s birth and
we are celebrating his career with a display of more than 70 paintings, prints, and
drawings. Included in the exhibition will be a 1961 United States Information Agency
(USIA) film titled Printmakers that highlights the work of five important American artists,
including Schrag.
The Schrag exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated monograph. In
addition to my essay are contributions by former Whitney Museum of Art curator
John Gordon, former Brooklyn Museum prints and drawing curator Una Johnson, and
art critic Carl Little. The book will also contain several commentaries by Karl Schrag
illuminating his thoughts on art and life as an artist. Beautifully designed, the book will
be available beginning in late August at our Gallery Store.
Also on view this fall will be the work of eight upstate New York artists as part of the The
Other New York: 2012 (TONY 2012) exhibition that is being held in conjunction with the
Everson Museum and other Central New York art venues. Both the Schrag and TONY
exhibitions will be on view until October 21, 2012.
Our Permanent Collection Galleries will feature new exhibitions that highlight both
well-known and unfamiliar treasures. In the Gallery of American Art, we are excited
to present Ben Shahn and The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti. You may recall from our
Spring 2012 Newsletter that we had the mosaic mural- possibly the most recognizable
piece of artwork on campus- conserved last summer.
RIGHTBen Shahndetail: The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti, 1967
COVERKarl SchragOvergrown Path, 1962
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3NOTES FROM THE DIRECTOR
4 EXHIBITION
Memories and Premonitions is the first major examination of the artist’s work since his death in
1995. Reflective of his masterful handling of the figure, landscape,
still-life scenes, and the evocative power of his vision, this exhibition
includes more than 70 of Karl Schrag’s paintings, prints, and
drawings. Most importantly, the art selected for this exhibition will
convey the artist’s ability to see the landscape as if for the first time, the surprise of that special
view, the recognition of his ability to feel wonder when looking at nature or figure, and the
reward associated with seeing the world through his eyes.
Roberta Smith, of the NY Times, said in 1995 “Mr. Schrag came to specialize in a painting style
characterized by loose, energetic brushwork and resonant colors that restated the concerns
of van Gogh, Matisse and Kirchner in contemporary terms.”
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP
Karl SchragKatherine (in Red), 1967
Loan, Courtesy of Katherine and Lawrence Wangh
Delphiniums and Peonies, n.d. Loan, Courtesy of Peter and
Jeanette Schrag
Miriam CaravellaKarl Schrag, 1976
The SUArt Galleries opens the exhibition on August 30 and it will close October 21.
In addition to a selection of Shahn works from the permanent collection, a reproduction
of the mural illustrates a didactic timeline explaining the accusation and trial of the
Italian-American immigrants, the history of Shahn’s development of the mural, and the
restorations that have taken place over its more than 45-year history. Also featured
is a 16mm film made in 1967 documenting the mural’s installation and dedication. It
contains a unique interview with Shahn, and has additional footage and interviews
with the conservation team who cleaned and restored the mosaic in 2011. This
display was researched by our second year Ph.D. graduate assistant Jaimeson Daley
who worked with our staff to develop this insightful historical overview.
The East Galleries will be showing recent acquisitions to our Print and Photography
collections. Collecting Focus: New Prints and Photographs highlights impressive
additions to those collections. In the past five years, the Syracuse University Art
Collection has proactively expanded the Print and Photography collections through
generous donations from alumni, friends and institutions, as well as specific purchases
made by SUArt. See more in our Collections section, page 10.
On November 8th the Galleries will reopen with two exhibitions- Pulled, Pressed and
Screened: Important American Prints and Jeff Davies: Straight from the Heart, an
exhibition highlighting the work of a local Syracuse artist who passed away in 2006.
Probably best known in our community for his public murals that can be seen at
the Dinosaur Bar-B-Que and on the south wall of the Boom Babies clothing store on
Westcott Street, this exhibition highlights the artist’s smaller and more personal work.
These shows will be on view from November 8, 2012 through January 6, 2013.
5NOTES FROM THE DIRECTOR
Pulled, Pressed and Screened is a traveling exhibition organized by the SUArt Galleries
that will be seen, among other places, at the Juliette and Fred Turner Memorial Gallery
in the Museum of the Southwest in Midland, Texas. They will also be displaying another
SUArt Galleries exhibition, Winslow Homer and the American Pictorial Press, in 2014.
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP
Karl SchragKatherine (in Red), 1967
Loan, Courtesy of Katherine and Lawrence Wangh
Delphiniums and Peonies, n.d. Loan, Courtesy of Peter and
Jeanette Schrag
Miriam CaravellaKarl Schrag, 1976
RIGHTRobert CottinghamOrph, 1979
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2012 FALL CALENDAR
August 30 – May 12, 2013 Permanent Collection ExhibitionsBen Shahn and The Passion of Sacco and VanzettiCollecting Focus: New Prints and Photographs
August 30 – October 21, 2012
Karl Schrag: Memories and Premonitions The Other New York: 2012Opening Reception Thursday, August 30 5:00-7:00 P.M.
November 8, 2012 – January 6, 2013
Pulled, Pressed and Screened: Important American PrintsJeff Davies: Straight from the HeartOpening Reception Thursday, November 8, 5:00 – 7:00 P.M.SU
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August 8 – September 13, 2012Those Who Can: New Work from The School of Art and Design
September 20 – October 11, 201240 Years in the Making: Celebrating Community Folk Art Center’s History and Collection
October 15 – December 6, 2012Emilio Sanchez: No Way Home
December 10, 2012 – February 7, 2013The Art of Stone Canoe
September 13 – October 27, 2012
Luv U: Senga Nengudi Windows Project: The Other New York: 2012 (Jeff Einhorn)Opening Reception Thursday, September 13, 5:00 – 8:00 P.M.
November 15 – February 9, 2013
Wilderness 24/7: ecoarttech
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LECTURES,PROGRAMS & EVENTS
EmILIO SANCHEZ: NO WAY HOmEImages of the Caribbean and New York City
Emilio Sanchez moved to New York City in 1944
to take art classes at Columbia and by 1952
decided to relocate there. His early images were
inspired by the landscape surrounding his father’s
plantation in Cuba and described cane fields
dotted with palm trees or working class residences
and villages. Apparent in them is an interest in
pattern, color and strong lighting contrasts that
came to characterize his mature style. New York
provided different and endless opportunities
to explore light and pattern combinations. An
Old Warehouse in Brooklyn, 1975, and a view of
a sunset from West 15th Street titled Crosstown
New York Sunset from the late 1970s are among
the paintings Sanchez made of the city that
were inspired by earlier artists like Charles Sheeler,
Georgia O’Keefe and Edward Hopper.
August 30 – May 12, 2013 Permanent Collection ExhibitionsBen Shahn and The Passion of Sacco and VanzettiCollecting Focus: New Prints and Photographs
August 30 – October 21, 2012
Karl Schrag: Memories and Premonitions The Other New York: 2012Opening Reception Thursday, August 30 5:00-7:00 P.M.
November 8, 2012 – January 6, 2013
Pulled, Pressed and Screened: Important American PrintsJeff Davies: Straight from the HeartOpening Reception Thursday, November 8, 5:00 – 7:00 P.M.
Karl Schrag and Atelier 17Lecture by Domenic IaconoSunday, October 7, 2:00 – 3:30 P.M.Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building
Senga NengudiTuesday, September 11, 6:30 P.M.Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building
WITKIN ON SCHrAg:A Conversation with Jerome WitkinTuesday, September 18, 5:00 P.M.Room 121 Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building
TONY 2012: An Evening with video artist Tammy BrackettThursday, October 4, 6:00 P.M.001 Life Sciences Building
ecoarttech: Art in the biological, cultural and digital wildernessTuesday, November 13, 6:30 P.M.Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building
September 13 – October 27, 2012
Luv U: Senga Nengudi Windows Project: The Other New York: 2012 (Jeff Einhorn)Opening Reception Thursday, September 13, 5:00 – 8:00 P.M.
November 15 – February 9, 2013
Wilderness 24/7: ecoarttechAn interactive art gallery experience that includes guided exhibition tours and projects geared specifically toward engaging your family with the exhibitions we bring to the Syracuse community.
September 29 & 30, 2:00 P.M.
November 17 &18, 2:00 P.M.
PARENTS WEEkENd1:00 P.M. October 5 & 6
ORANGE CENTRAL 1:00 P.M. November 9 & 10
SPECIAL EVENT WEEKENDS FREE GUIDED TOURS AT SUArt
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8 NOTES FROM THE DIRECTOR
THE LOUISE AND BERNARD PALITz GALLERY
Of course we will also be presenting an ambitious schedule for the Louise and Bernard
Palitz Gallery at Lubin House in New York City. Currently on view is the College of Visual
and Performing Art’s faculty exhibition Those Who Can: New Work from the School of
Art and Design. The work selected for this exhibition represents the gamut of processes
utilized by artists today, and also exemplifies the strength of a department that heavily
influences many of the young artists studying the visual arts at Syracuse University.
Defying the adage that “those who can’t…teach”, the six faculty members included
in Those Who Can demonstrate that being an effective educator can coincide
with success as an artist. We will also be displaying a 40th anniversary show from the
Community Folk Art Center beginning September 17th. In mid-October we will reprise
the Emilio Sanchez exhibition, No Way Home: Images of the Caribbean and New York
City that opened in our main campus galleries last year. This display will be open during
the annual International Fine Print Dealers Association fair in November at the Seventh
Regiment Armory on Park Avenue where more Sanchez art can be seen.
In December we will host our first display of art from the Syracuse University arts,
literature and commentary journal Stone Canoe. The Art of Stone Canoe will highlight
work that was featured in the publication during the last 6 years and includes objects
by such notables as David MacDonald, Gail Hoffman, and Yvonne Buchanan. If you
happen to be in NYC during the Holidays check with the staff at Syracuse University
Lubin House to see if the Palitz Gallery will be open.
THE WAREHOUSE GALLERY
The Warehouse Gallery will begin its 5th season with the exhibition Lov U, a mixed
media installation by Senga Nengudi, a key figure of the Black Arts Movement in the
1960s-1970s. Known primarily for performance-based art installations, her work focuses
on movement and the human body and is multidisciplinary in nature and international
in scope, with cultural references to Africa, Asia, Australia, and Latin America. In Lov U,
Nengudi explores the physical senses, and includes photographs and video to reflect
on love throughout cultures and times. Drawn to discarded, everyday materials, the
ephemerality of Nengudi’s work is a metaphor for life’s transience.
Jeff Einhorns’ Window Project A Portrait of the Artist As A Giant Deflating Head
is part of The Other New York: 2012. For this project, Einhorn creates a site-specific
installation addressing the fine line between performance art and sculpture while
wittily emphasizing the unstable state of things and systemic disorder. The artist’s
portrait is printed on a large balloon-filled inflated head made out of poly lyra, which
floats in the space facing West Fayette Street. Over
time, the work will deflate, a process that is tracked
by a vinyl ruler fixed to the wall. These shows will open
September 13th and run through October 27th.
The Warehouse Gallery will reopen in November with
an exhibition by ecoarttech who are well known
for exploring environmental issues and media from
an interdisciplinary perspective. Most recently you
may have heard about their work at the Whitney
Museum of Art in New York City where they created
an interactive app called Indeterminate Hikes+ that,
as they say, transforms everyday landscapes into
sites of bio-cultural diversity and wild happenings.
ecoarttech will be on view from November 15, 2012
until February 9, 2013.
Senga Nengudi in her studio
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP:
James SkvarchThe Consumption of Risk, 2012
Amy GreenanSometimes I Can’tBelieve It, 2011
Barbara PageGrand Junction, 2010
photo of Jeff Davies
9EXHIBITION
The Other New York: 2012 is a community-wide, multi-venue
biennial exhibition organized by the Everson Museum of
Art that is the result of a major collaboration among 14
art organizations in Syracuse collectively presenting work
by 63 artists. The SUArt Galleries is exhibiting work by eight
upstate artists selected from over 200 applicants. Included
are finely cast and delicate sculptural porcelains by Ithaca
native Matthew Glaysher, a two channel video by Tammy
Brackett exploring an artificial landscape made from pages
from books, and a series of small paintings examining local
abandoned houses by Buffalo artist Amy Greenan. The
other participants, Juan Cruz, Sara DiDonato, Sue Huggins
Leopard, Barbara Page and James Skvarch are exhibiting
works on paper, reflecting the strength and longtime
collecting interest of the Syracuse University Art Collection.
JEFF DAVIES: STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART
Jeff Davies (1938-2006) was a Syracuse resident who, as
a self-taught artist, gained a near cult status among local
collectors. He began his artistic career by making small,
quickly conceived and finished line drawings for co-
workers at the Onondaga County Water Authority where
he worked as a draftsman. Davies developed a style that
incorporated elements of Surrealism with Rube Goldberg
inspired machines often in service to a sexually charged
theme. In the 1970s he gave up a life and family in the
suburbs to devote himself full time to making art. As he
gained experience he enlarged the size of the images,
ultimately making murals, the most famous of which are
on the interior and exterior walls of the Dinosaur Bar-B-Q
restaurant in downtown Syracuse. Eventually, he worked
out an arrangement with the owners of Pastabilities
Restaurant in Armory Square where he was a regular that
they would install a new painting of his every other week.
AUGUST 30 – OCTOBER 21, 2012 OPENING RECEPTION THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 5:00 – 7:00 P.M.
OPENING NOVEMBER 8, 2012
Senga Nengudi in her studio
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP:
James SkvarchThe Consumption of Risk, 2012
Amy GreenanSometimes I Can’tBelieve It, 2011
Barbara PageGrand Junction, 2010
photo of Jeff Davies
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COLLECTING FOCUS:NEW PRINTS AND PHOTOGRAPHSIN THE SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ART COLLECTION
ANDREW SALUTI and EMILY DITTMAN, SUART GALLERIES
Syracuse University has been actively collecting artwork
since 1873, and has amassed an impressive and important
collection of paintings, sculpture, prints and photographs.
Since 1978, special attention has been placed on the
acquisition of works on paper- the graphic arts, photographs
and drawings- resulting in an encyclopedic collection of
works that outline the history of the various media dating
back to the fifteenth century. Collecting Focus: New Prints
and Photographs exhibits the most recent acquisitions to
the Syracuse University Art Collection.
The past two years have been particularly beneficial to
the print collection. Major collections of artwork were
given by the Seong Moy family and the Emilio Sanchez
Foundation to be cataloged and maintained by the SU
Art Collection. Private collectors acknowledged the
collection’s importance by making donations. Most
notable was the addition of the Hamilton Armstrong collection, a gift that included
over 200 prints with artists like Rembrandt, Käthe Kollwitz, John Taylor Arms, as well as
local printmaker James Skvarch. Living artists, such as letterpress artist Amos Kennedy
Jr., added selections of their current work to count among the hundreds of printmakers
represented. The SUArt Collection has also built relationships with important print
publishers, among them Bill Goldston, Master Printmaker and Director of the famed
Universal Limited Art Editions. From ULAE we added a collaborative portfolio by
Robert Rauschenberg and Russian poet Andrei Voznesensky. For the 2011 exhibition
Sources and Structures: The Art of Robert Stackhouse, the SU Art Collection purchased
Stackhouse’s imposing Blue Flyer from Tandem Press at the University of Wisconsin in
Madison, one of the most active contemporary print workshops today.
Since 2007 the Syracuse University Art Collection has proactively expanded the
Photography Collection; placing a collecting focus on a medium that has not gained
numerous acquisitions since the mid- 1980s. The photographs highlighted in Collecting
Focus represent how these recent gifts have aided in broadening our holdings to
help illuminate photography’s rich and evolving history. For example, the concept of
landscape and its effect on the people and environment that
surround it are highlighted in the images of the contemporary
master Robert Giard (1939-2002). South Fork Portfolio: Ten
Photographs by Robert Giard captures a geographic region
of Long Island the artist felt was integral in documenting the
people and places that have particular importance to the gay
and lesbian community.
Collecting Focus: New Prints and Photographs not only
illustrates the notable works that have been added to the SUArt
Collection, but also acknowledges the variety of avenues that
artwork makes its way to Syracuse University. Most important are
the donors, alumni, and friends of SUArt that enable the print and
photography collections to grow in scope and depth- offering
new opportunities for students to examine important original
works of art and build on the already remarkable collection that
is the cornerstone of the Syracuse University Art Collection.
TOPRobert RuaschenbergDarkness Mother, 1978
BOTTOMDonna Ferrato
Tribeca’s Heroes, 2008
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Syracuse University has a long history of placing important works
of art on its campus for the enjoyment and education of visitors,
students, faculty, and staff. Now, with a new interactive web-
based application, visitors to the campus can enjoy more in-depth
information about the art on campus and the artists who made
the work, using QR reader technology in their smart phones.
Simply scan the QR code on the artwork’s descriptive label
and your handheld device will be redirected to a portal that
has information about our public sculpture. The Art on Campus
application can assist visitors to Syracuse University on a walking
tour of more than 30 artworks that are placed both outdoors and
inside many of our buildings.
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TOPRobert RuaschenbergDarkness Mother, 1978
BOTTOMDonna Ferrato
Tribeca’s Heroes, 2008
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