September 19, 2020 – November 1, 2020
Appositions features work by recent graduates of Syracuse University’s Studio Arts MFA program in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, including Franco Andres, Brandy Boden, Darcie Brown, Stephen Farrell, Devon Gelhar, Charles Hickey, Eric Mowen, and Katie Shulman.
October 10, 2020 – January 24, 2021
Empty openings or panes of glass in houses, vehicles, skyscrapers, or storefronts, windows are portals to and from other worlds. Drawn from the Everson’s collection, this exhibition examines the formal and symbolic potential of a simple aperture.
November 7, 2020 - May 9, 2021
The Everson began collecting contemporary Japanese ceramics in earnest in the mid 1970s, an experimental period when artists were applying geometric forms and conceptual strategies to traditional materials and forms. The exhibition highlights this under-recognized generation of artists who are now credited with laying the groundwork for today’s contemporary ceramic movement in Japan.
November 14, 2020 – January 24, 2021
Using portraiture as her point of departure, Lacey McKinney examines themes of identity and embodiment through the human face and figure. Painting with acrylic and oil, McKinney merges multiple faces into one composition—blurring together moments in time. Calling attention to the fallacy that humans maintain a singular fixed or identity and challenging the history of genre portraiture, McKinney questions how much information can be gleaned from a single portrait.
Opening January 23, 2021
Based upon the iconic Carrie Mae Weems’ 1998 work of the same name, Who, What, When, Where explores questions
of identity, place, and time while investigating the four words fundamental to the construction of narratives.
January 30 – March 28, 2021
Jaleel Campbell: Homecoming, the artist’s first solo museum exhibition in his hometown of Syracuse, features digital illustrations alongside newly created video works, and a series of his “Jalethal” dolls.
Coming Soon
AbStranded brings together contemporary American artists who use fiber-based materials to investigate the complex lineage of abstraction. A prominent use of the hand looms large—through knitting, weaving, quilting and more—and suggests an alternative mode of communication within a digital society. Together, the works reveal how artists employ the language of abstraction to speak about the intertwined histories and politics of craft, race, and gender.
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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. 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 recent artistic output in ceramics, glass, and steel.
