Whimsy & Joy is the title of Edgewood Gallery‘s latest art exhibition. Kathleen Crinnen’s acrylic paintings, Eva Hunter‘s jewelry, accessories and paintings plus Linda Malik’s sculptures comprise this colorful, very feminine show.
The exhibit continues through April 17, 2026. Edgewood Gallery is located at 216 Tecumseh Road, Syracuse, New York 13224.
Tuesday – Friday: 9:30 am – 6 pm
Saturday: 10 am – 2 pm
Sunday & Monday: closed
I visited Edgewood yesterday to discuss my upcoming show there. I will be exhibiting in late August through Oct 2, 2026. No decision yet on what artwork I will be presenting there.
Meanwhile, I will be picking up my painting from Mohawk Valley on Saturday and the Art Haus exhibit has been extended an extra week – pick up date for that show is April 18th.
Next for me – May and June 2026 at the East Syracuse Free Library.
This happened today: the art reception/art opening for Soulscapes at Art Haus Syracuse, 120 Walton Street, Syracuse, NY (in Armory Square).
It was such a lovely experience. There was food and drink, great conversation and each artist spoke briefly about our respective artworks.
My ten butterfly paintings look amazing flanking the Marc Safran photograph. I sold two of them during the party. Art can be puchased on-line here.
Visit the gallery Tuesdays and Wednesdays noon – 7:00 PM, Thursdays and Fridays noon – 8:00 PM, and Saturdays noon – 6:00 PM. Check the gallery’s Facebook page for any changes to these hours.
from the Art Haus web-site –
⭐️art haus SYR is proud to announce the opening of SOULSCAPES, a dynamic group exhibition featuring four local artists whose work explores the diverse textures of identity and the environment. The exhibition will run from 2/28 through 4/11, with a public opening reception Saturday 2/28, 2-4pm.
Soulscapes brings together an eclectic mix of mediums—from global photography to surrealist painting—to create a dialogue between the internal psyche and the external world.
The Featured Artists
* CJ Hodge lll: Presents a collection of surreal mixed-media portraits and bold abstract paintings that challenge traditional boundaries of form and color.
* Marc Safran: Showcases global portrait photography that highlights the profound beauty of human rituals, cultural traditions, and the dignity of everyday individual life.
* Karen Tashkovski: Offers a delicate and textured series of mixed-media butterfly paintings, symbolizing transformation and fragile beauty.
* Meghan Murphy: Explores the extremes of scale and subject matter, featuring a series of tiny landscape watercolors paired with a collection of outlandish looking portraits.
„This exhibition is a celebration of the unconventional,“ says Marianna Ranieri-Schwarzer Curator at art haus SYR. „By pairing the grounded, global reality of Marc Safran’s photography with the surreal and outlandish visions of Hodge and Murphy, we invite the viewer to see the ‚soul‘ in all its forms—the beautiful, the traditional, and the delightfully strange.“
Karen Tashkovski, BUTTERFLY, 2024, encaustic & collage on gesso board, 8″ x 8″Karen Tashkovski, PEPERUTKA, 2024, encaustic & collage on gesso board, 8″ x 8″
Some of these butterfly paintings will be showcased at Art Haus, 120 Walton Street, Syracuse, NY 13202. The opening reception will be February 28, 2026 from 2:00 – 4:00 PM.
Karen Tashkovski, MARIPOSA, 2024, encaustic & collage on gesso board, 8″ x 8″Karen Tashkovski, SCHMETTERLING, 2024, encaustic & collage on gesso board, 8″ x 8″
I loved the challenge of making butterflies in encaustic and collage, using paint brushes as thoraxes. Encaustic is a combination of beeswax and oil paint.
Karen Tashkovski, PAPILLON, 2024, encaustic & collage on gesso board, 8″ x 8″Karen Tashkovski, PILI PALA, 2024, encaustic & collage on gesso board, 8″ x 8″Karen Tashkovski, FARFALLA, 2024, encaustic & collage on gesso board, 8″ x 8″Karen Tashkovski, GLOYN, 2024, encaustic & collage on gesso board, 8″ x 8″Karen Tashkovski, PITALUDKA, 2024, encaustic & collage on gesso board, 8″ x 8″Karen Tashkovski, CHO, 2024, encaustic & collage on gesso board, 8″ x 8″
Twenty-four-year-old Zoe Sauvé is more than just flesh and bone. She is a highly accomplished technician. Her line quality is Mary Cassatt proficient. Her color choices exemplify an acute understanding of the formal principles of art, color theory and synergy. I am blown away by the detailed power, as well as its emotional dynamic expressed in these paintings.
Am I biased because she was one of my art students once upon a time? I’d love to take credit for the small part I played in presenting this emerging figurative artist to the world.
Not biased, no. I both envy and admire Zoe Sauvé’s ability to bare her soul, to be such a brave and authentic artist. In these life-sized self portraits, Zoe insists we look at her raw yet vibrant image. She sketches herself in front of a mirror then proceeds to find any available work surface to paint on – repurposed plywood or random size canvas.
I forgot to ask her how she’d transported them to the gallery. Maybe a truck?
Art in the Atrium is located in City Hall Atrium, 201 E. Washington Street in downtown Syracuse, New York (13202) next to The Fish Friar.
The opening reception was today. There is one more day to view the work, as this venue has been doing micro pop-up events. You can still see the show by visiting tomorrow, Sunday, October 5, 2025. They will be open noon – 6:00 PM.
Penny Santy had a pop up show at The Atrium, a downtown Syracuse venue that is currently sponsored by CNY Arts. They have several more events planned until the end of the year (2024). Next year the building will be renovated into an apartment complex.
This is the first time Penny has exhibited all of her abstract paintings together – works that were three years in the making. She is influenced by Diebenkorn among other Abstract Expressionists, as well as music.
She sold many paintings during this weekend pop up. If you want more information or wish to purchase a painting, find her at www.pennysanty.com.
Summer is a time where time doesn’t matter to me. I get up when I want. I do what I want. It is not slow or fast motion. It is pure bliss. Today was a bit wonky in that it was cloudy-ish – it rained last night and seemed like an indoor-all-day kind of day. I worked on a fun, creative project, I practiced on piano, watched some TV (I cannot get enough of Million Dollar Listings on Bravo) then I noticed that it was actually nicer out than I thought. So, I decided to go for a hike. So satisfying! When I returned, I stumbled upon information that there was going to be an art reception and I still had time to get ready to go! Can someone hashtag #ootd fast enough? Could this day get any better? Yes and yes!
I was delighted. For some reason I thought SU’s galleries went on summer hiatus but that is not the case with POC this time.
Syracuse University’s Point of Contact gallery is located in the Warehouse Building in Armory Square (350 W. Fayette Street, Syracuse, New York 13202). It is primarily a space that features latin artists, although from time-to-time they curate other exhibitions, like the annual Sum Art show.
Time Changes Everything is the current exhibition. Curated by Sara Felice, Managing Associate Director of the gallery, it features Margie Hughto, Beth Bischoff and Darcy Gerbarg with an art and video installation by Franco Andres in the back space.
It is a magnificent show! It was such a thrill to meet and speak with three of the artists. I have met Margie Hughto before but this time – OMG, her new work is breathtakingly beautiful, the kind of thing that moves me to want to make art, moves me to the tears that form the essence of joy. They are ceramic assemblages that sort of bridge the space between archeology and modernism. Each piece is fired separately then the artist uses intuitive rhythm to create movement in each piece, a swirling that truly captivates. Her inclination here is to showcase climate change.
Darcy Gerbarg blends her history as an Abstract Expressionist painter with her knowledge of digital technology. She has always been on the cutting edge in her field and these pieces are digital prints created by utilizing virtual reality software. Like a conductor wielding her baton, she executes a rhythmic flow of movement that then gets translated into digitized color on a monumental scale.
Beth Bischoff spent six years living in the Yucatan. Her photographs of this landscape are taken with a unique panoramic camera then digitally printed. The imagery created transports the viewer to a jungle habitat lost in time. Again, the sweep of rhythm thrusts mightily, albeit in black and white. It appears in tree branches and tall grass, as well as in the contrast of the stone facades.
The time changing element to this show is that feeling of having been here in the present moment and everywhere simultaneously. Time doesn’t stand still. It swirls and dances upon the landscape of photograph, painting, print and bas-relief. I feel changed for the better blessed by the momentum of art.
If you would like to view this show and find out more about the 4th artist, Franco Andres, (I did not get the opportunity to meet/speak with him), the exhibition runs through August 9, 2019. Point of Contact is open Monday – Friday 12 – 5 pm. Call (315) 443-2169 for more information or visit the POC website at www.puntopoint.org <3
***From the gallery website
TIME CHANGES EVERYTHING
MARGIE HUGHTO, BETH BISHOFF, DARCY GERBARG, FRANCO ANDRES
JULY 12 – AUGUST 9
Each artist in Time Changes Everything battles the temporality of human existence and the material world constructed around it.
Bischoff’s photography expresses a harmony of the past and present depicting the ruins left in the world’s progression. Bischoff’s Ruins series functions as a reminder of the care our planet deserves.
Ceramist Margie Hughto draws inspiration from landfills and remains left by humans in the creation of her Excavation Series. Hughto’s work embodies the transience of the human experience in a world heavily structured by transitory material objects.
Bringing together numerous modes of digital art, Gerbarg forms The Syracuse Pictures. Her artwork abstracts the world into its own heterotopia, existing in both the past and present.
Andres realizes the difficulty of authenticity for artists as he utilizes an accumulation of mediums in the formation of one’s identity. The process of his artwork becomes a depiction of time and change as his work spans from ancient processes to contemporary modes of video.
These four distinct artists come together in “Time Changes Everything” to pose a larger challenge to the viewers through the ultimate tool, their artwork.
Time Changes Everything will be on view through Aug. 9th.
Last night Kim and I attended an art reception for local artist Jon Goode. He said his girlfriend surprised him with the show, titled Decades. She had unearthed some of his earlier works (in attic storage) and paired them with ones he has on display in his bookshop near my friend Kim’s hair salon down the road from me in Eastwood.
The result was this inspiring show of colorful mixed-media pieces of various sizes. There was an amazing food spread, a fully stocked bar complete with homemade wine labelled specifically for the show (!!!) and a DJ spinning vinyl.
The last time I had visited Apostrophe’s on Oak Street in Syracuse, New York, it was for Davana Robedee’s exhibit. Now that it is spring, the gallery is very bright in the evening in comparison to Davana’s opening and so, it was a very different vibe. Curator Holly Wilson had originally planned the space to be a showcase for Syracuse University student artists looking for a venue to begin their careers. She is now expanding to include the local Syracuse scene. Artists, like Jon, like me, who can rent the space for one to three week shows for a one-man gig or group showing.
It is a wonderful space and I may take her up on the offer. There is availabilitity this summer. If you are interested, contact Holly at yourfriendholly@gmail.com.
Jon’s show runs through next week. Hours of operation are limited, but I believe you can get a private viewing by contacting Holly’s email or galleryapostropheS@gmail.com.
