THE ITHACAN

Art offers healing for sexual violence

By Megan Devlin, Assistant Accent Editor • April 13, 2011

As warm batter bubbles in waffle-makers behind the counter top, the sweet aroma lifts into the air and permeates the upper level of the café, teasing mid-afternoon diners seated at tables where the artwork of sexual abuse survivors hangs above their heads.

Display frames iconic American art

By Matthew R. Reis, Staff Writer • March 23, 2011

From fast-food chains to celebrity tweets and the clothes people wear, iconography is everywhere. Undergraduates of Cornell University’s History of Art Majors’ Society did an adequate job selecting the works featured in “iCON: Consuming the American Image,” an exhibit depicting the heavy influence of icons in everyday life.

Exhibit displays domestic tools as art

By Jesse Maeshiro, Contributing Writer • February 10, 2011

Soft olive hues within the gallery beckon visitors through the sheen of its glass doorway. A smooth manila carpet meets the gentle shading of the intriguing and fresh exhibit now at Ithaca College’s Handwerker Gallery: “reimagining the distaff toolkit,” curated by Rickie Solinger.

Abstracts bring focus to organic vision

By Megan Devlin, Assistant Accent Editor • February 2, 2011

Tucked behind the string of local shops in the Triphammer Mall hides one of the Ithaca Bakery cafés. Here, a collection of organic photographs hangs above diners sipping freshly brewed, fair-trade coffees in the booths and tables along the shop’s walls. The purity of the pictures complements the already natural atmosphere of the local bakery…

Art branches out with pieces on trees

By Whitney Faber, Accent Editor • November 3, 2010

From a 15th-century woodcut depicting the scene of the Fall of Man with vine-covered, leafy trees to a print of a tree farm in China littered with plastic bags, the latest exhibit at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University looks at trees from all angles.

Painter captures life in still subjects

By Matthew Reis, Staff Writer • February 18, 2010

Meyer Stolov was comfortable staring at black ink on paper, miraculously translating the curving lines forming notes into the sounds of beautiful music. Now, Stolov is comfortable staring at a blank white canvas, skillfully bringing the images locked inside his mind to life with the brush in his hand. Stolov’s exhibition currently on display at…

Faculty display talent in art exhibition

By Whitney Faber, Assistant Accent Editor • January 28, 2010

Interlinking bronze wires twist and turn in a spidery mesh statue, building the form of a regally upstanding deer with tall ears and a long head cocked back to see its onlookers. On a nearby wall, two starch-white canvases with elegant embossed flowers hang in glorious simplicity. Different media. Different themes — all in one…

Artistic video blurs reality into fantasy

By Matthew Reis, Staff Writer • February 4, 2007

Some people take portraits in the middle of a park. Others take portraits in a department store. Artist Sam Jury takes portraits in the middle of a dream — or at least that’s what she tries to make viewers think. Jury’s mixed media piece “Forever is Never” is an enlightening video that allows the viewer…