The paintings made for the Warehouse Gallery’s show Colorfornia: New Forms in West Coast Street Art look like they could come from such a magical place, but it is important to remember that this art arose and thrives in real, public, urban environments, not in spite of them.

In September 2010 former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva inaugurated the world’s largest piece of graffiti art—more than 37,000 square feet of a highway wall—honoring children’s rights.

Past and present come together in (hyphen) Americans, Keliy Anderson-Staley’s one-person show at the Light Work Gallery. The show features more than 100 portraits of contemporary Americans, all done in a tintype format introduced in 1856 and little used after the 1930s.

A lesser professor could settle into a rut after decades of teaching students to paint, if self-satisfaction turned a signature style into a cliché, if pet obsessions gave rise to an inscrutable private iconography, if growing eccentricity lessened accessibility by the semester.

We often hear about stranger danger as it relates to those people who may frighten us and our children. Most likely, they’re not dangerous at all, merely different. A new exhibit at SUNY Oswego’s Tyler Art Gallery shows us the strangers, but from their perspective.

All these photographs prove once again the adage that the camera doesn’t lie. While the photographer can mess with aperture and focus and light to alter an image into something nearly abstract, the image remains grounded in reality. In the case of people recovering from drug and alcohol addiction, reality can often sting.

Although Wilder hails from Rochester, and has shown her block print art around the country, this is her first show in the Syracuse area. The artist will be at Dalton’s for a meet-and-greet event on Friday, July 8, 5 to 8 p.m. “We’re asking for a phone call RSVP by the end of the day on Wednesday, July 6,” Rudd says with a laugh.

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Ellen Blalock’s 29 black-and-white images depict people living in Central New York households: two women who live as a couple and are raising two children, two men who have been partners for more than two decades, two women who married in Canada, a...

Bob Potts’ sculpture, “Pursuit II,” made of steel, aluminum, bronze, brass and an electric motor, seems present in a region between functional, mechanical objects and an artist’s creative impulses. Upon first seeing the piece, it’s easy to imagine turning it on.