In the early 1970s, the Pattern & Decoration Movement emerged as an antidote to the vice grip in which abstraction had held American art since the 1950s. Artists like Valerie Jaudon, Joyce Kozloff, and Miriam Shapiro began juxtaposing colors and patterns that critics and artists alike had previously...
Maria Park’s paintings, installations, and public projects explore how technology shapes perception and affects how we engage with the world around us. Field Diagram traces the ways in which Park’s studio became a site for her to reestablish both a ground and a horizon after the loss of her partner ...
Coordinated by ARISE, a non-profit agency based in Syracuse, UNIQUE celebrates the artistic talents of Central New Yorkers living with disabilities. The works included in this exhibition eloquently speak to the myriad thoughts, ideas, and feelings that all humans share, regardless of individual abil...
Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez is a Colombian American artist who explores her heritage through works that combine Colombia’s material culture, history, and natural world. For the works featured in Dream Map and Cornucopia, Friedemann-Sánchez begins with an image of a ceramic vessel that speaks to the com...
The Everson is thrilled to have a brilliant installation by Derek Porter titled Faceted Wrap transform our Kilburg Family Staircase into a brilliant, light-filled space. Thousands of individually oriented mirrored reflectors capture isolated moments of the surrounding scene...
This long-term exhibition presents highlights from the more than 300 ceramic objects that the Everson acquired as purchase prizes from its famed Ceramic National exhibitions, which are the bedrock of the American Studio Ceramics Movement....
Drawing from the Everson’s collection, Lessons in Geometry traces the evolution of hard-edge abstraction in the United States as artists sought to use pure geometric forms to create works with balance, harmony, and order....
Jake Troyli’s works address the commodification of Black and Brown bodies, confronting and exploring labor capitalism and sweat equity as a demonstration of value. Troyli also injects his paintings with a sense of humor and absurdity through the inclusion of his own self-portrait. His avatar populat...
For more than four decades, Joyce Kozloff has explored how the entanglements of geography, history, and power influence the visual language of maps. Contested Territories presents a selection of Kozloff’s works that uncover how maps shape our understanding of the world—not as neutral tools, but as i...
Based in Elmira, New York, artist, designer, and educator Tyler K. Smith creates works featuring creatures who inhabit his imaginative BOMBOTZ universe, a place where science fiction-inspired machines and fantastical creatures reign supreme. With robotic bodies bursting open to reveal organic internal organs, the creatures of Smith’s universe are a signature mashup of machine and monster....
Binghamton-based artist and poet Anna Warfield creates text-based fiber sculptures in order to consider identity and how we communicate through words both spoken and unspoken....
Filmmaker and photographer William Strobeck spent a good part of his teenage years on the Everson Museum’s Community Plaza during the 1990s. It was here that he discovered a skateboarding crew populated by “weirdos and outcasts” who, in turn, introduced him to a global diaspora of creative individuals with a similar DIY ethos and punk rock spirit....
In 1943, LIFE photographer John Florea set aside Hollywood and celebrity portraiture to serve as a war correspondent in World War II. Although he spent most of his career directing episodes of popular television shows from the 1960s to the 1980s, he is best remembered for his stark photographs of the horrors of war. Beginning with his photographs on American soil and ending at the Battle of the Bulge, this exhibition traces how Florea’s photography shifted from the polished and posed portraits of Marines training in California and women working for the USO in Texas to the gritty, haunting photos of bombed out cities and military executions....
Central New York’s Feats of Clay competition was established in 1987 to foster education in the ceramic arts for Syracuse-area high schools. Now in its 36th year, the event includes schools from as far away as the North Country and the Southern Tier and features a juried exhibition that recognizes students who demonstrate excellence in ceramic sculpting and vessel making....
Benediction honors DuSell’s work in wood during a particularly fertile period in the 1970s when his works became kinetic and interactive. This exhibition features large-scale works, including three rocking chairs containing musical elements powered by their rocking motion that were originally exhibited at the Everson in a 1980 solo exhibition....
Catherine Spencer, a Central New York artist, creates sculptures and alternative environments inspired by her childhood surroundings. Using found objects and human-made materials, she explores the intersection of human experience and nature....
Founded in 1923, the Scholastic Art Awards are the nation’s longest-running and most prestigious educational initiative supporting student achievement in the arts. Every year, students across the country in grades 7-12 are invited to enter original works of art in regional competitions. ...
This exhibition explores new narratives of the history of American art, embracing stories about women artists, LGBTQ+ artists, and artists of color within a visual and thematic structure that also features iconic works traditionally associated with the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts....
