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.

The wild-eyed snarling tiger on the show poster for the current exhibition at XL Projects promises a circus, and we get one replete with sexy sword swallowers, kooky calliopes, improbable beasts and bearded ladies.

What do visitors to Syracuse think of our city? I often wonder if I’m looking at the answers when I visit the Warehouse Gallery. The gallery’s policy is to invite contemporary artists to visit and respond to the environment with unique artwork. The exhibitions must reflect somewhat on our hometown.

One exhibition can’t offer a complete narrative on that period, and the ArtRage show certainly doesn’t pretend to be exhaustive. On one hand, it offers a brief overview of the party’s history, including armed conflicts with police and surveillance of the BPP by the FBI and other government agencies.