Syracuse University

Lubin House

  • Pet Reliquary Toy, 2008 - BARBARA ELLEN WALTER

  • This is an Ex-Parrot, 1999 - MICHAEL SICKLER

  • Video still from Stable, 2007 - JOHN ORENTLICHER

Palitz Gallery

The Second floor of Syracuse University Lubin House is the home of the Louise and Bernard Palitz Gallery. Made possible through the generous support of alumna Louise Palitz and her husband Bernard, the Gallery is host to several art exhibits throughout the year including two major public shows - one in the fall and one in the spring.

The SUArt Galleries on campus, the generosity of private collectors, and the talents of alumni are what help to make the Palitz Gallery a popular feature of Lubin House.

Curators of the Palitz Gallery exhibits are Domenic Iacono (djiacono@syr.edu), Director of SUArt Galleries, David Prince (dlprince@syr.edu), Associate Director/Curator, SUArt Galleries and Edward Aiken, Senior Curator, Program Coordinator, Museum Studies Graduate Program.

SUArt Galleries can be reached at 315-443-4097.

Current Exhibit: Wynn Newhouse Awards Exhibition

Contemporary Practices in the Arts

Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, with evening hours available by request.

Free and open to the public. 212-826-0320 or lubin@syr.edu

Work by longtime Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) faculty members John Orentlicher, Michael Sickler and Barbara Ellen Walter are presented in Contemporary Practices in the Arts.

Orentlicher, Sickler and Walter are all faculty members in VPA’s School of Art and Design. The exhibition includes work in the media of video, film, painting, drawing, collage, jewelry and sculpture.

"Three distinct artist views project images of each artist’s inner self and their interpretations of our society, such as when using the animal to project human emotions or in juxtaposing different past cultures as well as the present," writes Anja Chavez, SUArt Galleries’ curator of contemporary art, in the exhibition catalog.

Orentlicher is a professor of art video in the Department of Transmedia, Sickler is an associate professor of painting in the Department of Art, and Walter is a professor and program coordinator of jewelry and metalsmithing in the Department of Art.