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WELCOME WILLIAM & NANCY to ArtRage!

Food- Drink & Live Music with Jeff Unaitis!

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William Knodel & Nancy Keefe Rhodes

A Third Thursday Event! (Th3)

Collector and Curator will give a presentation surrounding their work on the ArtRage exhibition, Men Only – Vernacular Photographs of  Male Affection from the collection of Willam Knodel, curated by Nancy Keefe Rhodes.

William Knodel began collecting images of men, now close to 400 in number, in the 1970s. He calls this exhibition an expression of tikun olam, the Jewish ideal that each person in partnership with G-d has a charge to repair the world, leaving it better. He has lived in six countries and was married to a treasured Canadian fellow named Keith. William presently lives in Syracuse, to which he
returned after being widowed in 2006.

Nancy Keefe Rhodes is a writer, editor and curator whose work covers film, photo and visual arts. As recipient of a Light Work grant, she curated A Tender Record: The Early Black-and-White Photographs of Marjory Wilkins, shown at Light Work Gallery and at ArtRage. She also curated Hand-in-Hand: Artist and Public in Depression-era America for SUArts, and in 2013 will curate an exhibition of Civil War-era photographer George Barnard from the collection of Onondaga Historical Association. Nancy sits on Syracuse’s Public Arts Commission, teaches film theory in Transmedia at Syracuse University and is founding editor of Stone Canoe Journal’s Moving Images section.

Free to the Public.

Marriage from the inside…and out. What do you get when you fall in love? Inlaws and Outlaws cleverly weaves together the true stories of couples and singles …both gay and straight…and all into a collective narrative that is hilarious, heartbreaking and inspiring. At the top of the film, you meet real people one on one. You don’t know who’s gay or straight or who’s with whom. As their stories unfold, stereotypes fall by the wayside, and you find yourself rooting for everybody. With candor, good humor, great music, and real heart, Inlaws & Outlaws gets past all the rhetoric to explore what we all have in common. We love. We lose. We all want to belong. And we are all making this up as we go along….

Free to the Public.

Deitcher is faculty at ICP/Bard College Program in Advanced Photographic Studies and will be speaking at both Syracuse University and at the ArtRage Gallery on a panel with the collector and curator of  Men Only – Vernacular Photographs of Male Affection from the collection of Willam Knodel, curated by Nancy Keefe Rhodes.

Born in Montreal, Canada, David Deitcher is a writer, art historian, and critic whose  essays have appeared in Artforum, Art in America, Parkett, the Village Voice, and other periodicals, as well as in numerous anthologies and monographs on such artists as Felix Gonzales-Torres, Isaac Julien, and Wolfgang Tillmans.

He is the author of Dear Friends: American Photographs of Men Together, 1840-1918 and curator of the exhibition of the same name that appeared at the International Center of Photography in New York. He was the editor of The Question of Equality: Lesbian and Gay Politics in America Since Stonewall (Scribner, 1995). He has been core faculty at the International Center of Photography/Bard College Program in Advanced Photographic Studies since 2003 as well as core faculty at the Vermont College of Fine Arts /Visual Arts Department since 1997. He lives in New York City.David Deitcher, author and curator of Dear Friends: American Photographs of Men Together, 1840-1918, which was on view at New York’s International Center of Photography (ICP) in 2001.

5pm – Syracuse University, Killian Room, 500 Hall of Languages

8pm - The ArtRage Gallery, 505 Hawley Avenue @ N. Crouse

David Deitcher’s visit is made possible by Syracuse University through the sponsorship of Light Work/Community Dark Rooms, The College of Arts and Sciences, the LGBT Studies Program, the LGBT Resource Center, the departments of Transmedia, History, Art and Music Histories, and Communication and Rhetorical Studies.

MEET FILMMAKER, LORCA SHEPPERD at ArtRage!

When Syracuse native Lorca Shepperd and her husband/collaborator Cabot Philbrick set out to make Other People’s Pictures, they expected their documentary would focus on the trade in vernacular snapshots and albums that goes on at flea markets, auctions, antique and second-hand shops. “We thought it would be about the economics and mechanics of that market,” she said by phone recently from New York City, where the couple both work in television documentary. “But the emotions that collectors had about these photographs were really the whole point.”

Other People’s Pictures comprises overlapping interviews with snapshot collectors and dealers, along with interludes of stills drawn from particular sub-categories of images that people collect. One of the film’s many charms is that Shepperd and Philbrick seem to be equally fond of these quirky, compelling, largely anonymous images and the people who seek and cherish them. Largely filmed at the Chelsea Flea Market, Other People’s Pictures also takes us inside a few of these collectors’ homes.

We might call such collectors vernacular curators and each has evolved a specialty. Lisa, who says she can’t afford “real photographs” but second-hand snaps are within her price range, favors early 20th century images of “women with attitude,” often the proud early drivers behind the wheels of cars. The gallery drawn from her collection alone is worth seeing this film. Japanese-American Dan, transplanted to New York, collects images from his native Hawaii. Dan frames and hangs what he calls “banality of evil” photos – snaps of Nazis at weddings, in family groups and relaxing. Leslie collects what he calls the hidden history of male affection. And there’s Fern and Peter and Ken and Leonie, plus several dealers who expound on the virtues of their chosen display method– single images loose in bins, offered by category in boxes or albums, not counting the fierce debate over whether to break up intact family albums. Other People’s Pictures ranks as a Genuine Find.~ Selections from a review By Nancy Keefe Rhodes

Free to the PublicThis film screening and filmmaker presentation is made possible by funding through The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes/New York State Grants for Electronic Media and Film and the New York State Council on the Arts.