Photo by Jamie Young
June 8 – July 2, 2023: The exhibition showcases artwork of Central New York teens through the lens of what growing up means to them, and how they express this concept through a variety of artistic mediums. Growing Up and accompanying programming are generously underwritten by <stron...
On View Through June 18, 2023: Ryan Patrick Krueger: Documents from the Closet is part of the Everson CNY Artist Initiative, an exhibition program that celebrates the multi-faceted talents of regional artists. The CNY Artist Initiative is made possible with support from Ter...
May 20, 2023 - September 3, 2023: For photographer Doug Muir (1940-2016) Syracuse was always home, even though he moved away in 1967. Muir grew up on Syracuse's South Side where, as a twelve year-old, he embarked on a lifelong passion for capturing moments of daily ...
April 29, 2023 – October 1, 2023: As the Everson prepares to renovate an incredible new storage area for its ceramics collection with hi-tech space saver technology, the ceramics gallery will serve double duty as Museum staff unpack and sort collection treasures. To stay flexi...
June 3, 2023 - December 31, 2023:Off the Rack is the happy by-product of a major renovation of the Everson's on-site art storage. As hundreds of paintings and framed works are displaced from their racks while renovations take place, the public has an unprecedented opportuni...
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 and fragment them into...
June 10 – September 10, 2023: Painter Frank Buffalo Hyde grew up in the Onondaga Nation, where he absorbed much of the pop culture that is still central to his worldview. Throughout his career, Buffalo Hyde has presented “pop” iconography like UFOs, hamburgers, and ...
Remarkable in its breadth and depth, Light Work’s 50th Anniversary exhibition is a thoughtful composition of photographic works that have come into Light Work’s permanent collection over the past fifty years through the generosity of former artist-in-residence participants, Grant Awardees, and individual donations. The works on view are a reflective curation from over 4,000 objects and photographic prints from an extensive and diverse archive that maps the trends and developments in contemporary photography. The semi-centennial presents a unique opportunity to share the legacy of support the organization has extended to emerging and under-represented artists working in photography and digital image-making. Highlights in the show include early works from acclaimed photographers Dawoud Bey, Carrie Mae Weems, James Welling, and more....
Exh: March 18-April 30, 2023 Alison Altafi is a self-taught fiber artist based in Syracuse, New York. She explores fibers in unexpected ways, creating weavings-in-the-round that appear to be portals to other worlds. Their magical, otherworldly, textured, and fantastical abstract surfaces could be microcosms for the universe. I enjoy “melting” colors together, especially colors that may not seem complimentary at first glance. I achieve this by blending different colors of wool in my drum carder and using that blend to create new yarn or a “fiber bomb.”...
On view through May 21, 2023: A multibillion-dollar global industry that began as a recreational activity more than a century ago, the game of basketball is deeply rooted in our society and culture. Playing or watching the sport invokes intangible ideas and feelings—beauty, excitement, hope, triumph, joy, pain, defeat—experiences that define what it means to be human....
Color is an essential therapy for those cold and gray Central New York winters. The Everson embraces this with Chromania, a riot of kaleidoscopic color guaranteed to chase the winter grays away. In the wake of Impressionism, twentieth century artists developed a range of strategies to explore and employ color. Painter and educator Josef Albers taught that all color is relative, meaning that the appearance of a color can change based on other colors it is surrounded by....
In 2012, Light Work began the Urban Video Project (UVP) commission program, supporting emerging and mid-career artists in experimental media in the creation of new work for projection on the Everson Museum’s north facade. ...
Jamie Young is a photographer based in Syracuse, New York. His work has often focused on the natural world as a source of spiritual redemption and renewal in a time of cultural upheavals and challenges. Young has traveled extensively in Iceland over the past 25 years, and his ongoing Icelandic series documents both the extraordinary solace of the country’s geology and landscapes and the land’s rapid transformations due to climate change. He also runs a professional photography business and teaches photography and wood & metal fabrication at local universities....
Structure/Dissonance celebrates nearly five decades of work by New York-based artist Raymon Elozua, who first came to prominence in the 1970s with detailed trompe l’oeil ceramic sculptures of decaying industrial landscapes. Elozua’s first major museum exhibition since his 2003 retrospective at the Mint Museum, Structure/Dissonance focuses on three conceptual bodies of work that explore the combined physical properties of three elemental materials: ceramic, glass, and steel. This exhibition contextualizes these vital sculptures within Elozua’s intellectual landscape through the inclusion of a series of collections and research projects that are inextricably linked to his artistic output....
To celebrate the new millennium — in 2000 — artist Neil Tetkowski undertook a Herculean project: gathering clay from all 188 member countries from the United Nations. With these clay samples, Tetkowski created a suitably monumental work that debuted at UN headquarters in New York City—the Common Ground World Mandala. Seven feet in diameter and more than nine feet high, Tetkowski’s sculpture is a testament to the artist’s ability to think beyond boundaries — of scale, of geography, and politics. Common Ground uses Tetkowski’s World Mandala as the centerpiece of an exhibition that showcases the Everson’s vast collection of world ceramics....
CNY Arts’ 49th annual On My Own Time exhibition connects Central New York businesses in a collaboration that promotes the benefits of the creative process across community sectors. Original works created by amateur artists working in a variety of professions were displayed at their work sites. This professional juried selection recognizes outstanding works by employees of Central New York companies and organizations....
