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Syn•Optic: Art Education Faculty

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Image by Dr. Mike Emme, 2013

March 13 – May 4, 2013

Legacy Art Gallery Downtown

From the studios of 23 University of Victoria art education instructors in the Faculty of Education comes a rich and diverse exhibition of images and objects in traditional and new media. These works reflect studio lives that serve as foundation for the collaboration and exchange of ideas between these artist/educators in their daily work with students engaged in creative problem solving, studio-based visual research and art exhibitions of their own. The classroom and the studio are interconnected sites of research for this creative community where teaching informs studio practice and studio informs teaching practice. This exhibition invites visitors to experience those dynamic interactions.

Cross Connections: Five Decades of Contemporary Art in the Pacific Northwest

James W. Felter, The Russian Panel
James W. Felter, The Russian Panel

January 6 – February 21, 2010

Legacy Art Gallery Downtown

Curated by Cindy Vance and Julia Hulbert

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Cross Connections – Catalogue

The University of Victoria’s Legacy Art Gallery and Café presents Cross Connections: Five Decades of Contemporary Art in the Pacific Northwest.

This exhibit features works from UVic’s newly acquired Coast Art Trust Collection. It includes works by the Trust’s founding members, James Felter, Kal Opré and Gregg Simpson, as well as works from each of the five decades represented in the collection.

UVic’s Coast Art Trust Collection comprises more than 100 works by 45 contemporary lower mainland artists. It includes paintings, sculpture, collage, mixed media and photography created in the latter half of the twentieth century. The collection represents a capsule history of Vancouver’s contemporary art scene from the 1960s onwards.

The Coast Art Trust Society recently donated this important historical collection to the University of Victoria’s Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery. The Society was formed as an artist driven enterprise to help preserve BC’s artistic heritage by assembling, maintaining and exhibiting visual art works and archival materials that document artistic activity in the Lower Mainland in the last half of the twentieth century.

The Hold of Our Hands: Art from the Robin & Sylvia Skelton Collection

Robin Skelton, courtesy of Skelton family
Robin Skelton, courtesy of Skelton family

August 31 – November 15, 2007

Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery

Curated by Caroline Riedel

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The Hold of Our Hands Catalogue

Robin Skelton was a prominent figure in the Victoria art and literary scenes and with his wife, Sylvia, amassed an impressive collection of art. This exhibition features work from the Limner Art Group as well as illustrations by Jack Butler Yeats, brother of poet W.B. Yeats, other noteworthy Irish artists and Robin’s own collages. This show is part of a campus wide celebration of Robin Skelton’s creative life and contribution to the University community.

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Hands On: Insight Through Touch

September 20 – September 29, 2000

Legacy Maltwood (at Mearns Centre – McPherson Library)

An exhibit of original collage and sculpture made by people of varying artistic and visual capabilities with tactile colour, an exciting new medium that builds a little-explored communication bridge between visually-impaired and sighted people.

Artwalk: A Photographic Installation

February 18 – March 10, 1997

McPherson Library Gallery

This exhibition features Tyler Hodgins’ works. Hodgins is a local Victoria artist, and his works will feature elements of autobiography, documentary, map/mark making and visual art collage. Going for “art walks’ was an important part of Hodgins process and each route was documented on a map to accompany the photos taken.

About the Artist:

Tyler Hodgins studied art at the Victoria College of Art and works in acrylic paints as well as photography.

Texture, Form or Colour

September 20 – October 11, 1993

McPherson Library Gallery

This exhibition features Suzanne Mir’s collage artwork.

Collage represents the marriage between modern technology and art… As an artist I have found a great sense of play and esthetic gratification by incorporating collage in my work. My collection of paper and objects has ranged in appearance from elegant to the mundane. Sometimes the scraps of paper have had no particular significance other than their own inherent beauty. Thus it has been the formal qualities of these papers, i.e. texture, form or colour that motivated my keeping and using them.

-Suzanne Mir, 1993

China’s Darkest Hours: Tell the World

July 11 – July 31, 1989

McPherson Library Gallery

This exhibition features the direct and somewhat controversial art work of Ritha Mason.

Mason expresses, in the form of paintings, collages, and fibre glass sculpture, her horror at the recent events in China. These works depict the tragedy, the discontent and the confusion of present day China. Some pieces attempt a glimpse at a more optimistic future.

About the Artist:

Ritha Mason was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1937. At UVic, Mason studied in the BFA program under Pat Martin-Bates. She also studied art in China and Japan.

Yves Vial Collage

July 4 – July 25, 1983

McPherson Library Gallery

The two groups of works presented are results of Yves Vial collaborating with other artists. Vial’s illustrations were inspired by Robin Skelton’s poetry, and Michael Butor’s text was inspired by Vials’s collages.

About the Artist:

Yves Vial was born in France in 1954 and studied art in both France and Canada.

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Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery Recent Acquisitions

Maxwell Bates, Figures At A Table, 1968
Maxwell Bates, Figures At A Table, 1968

September 24 – October 15, 1981

Maltwood Art Gallery

This exhibition featured works recently acquired by UVic through donation or purchase. Artists included Roy Henry Vickers, Toni Onley, Jack Shadbolt, Myfanwy Pavelic, and Maxwell Bates. The exhibition reflected the wide variety in the collection and the variety within the local arts community.

Robin Skelton Collages

Robin Skelton, Collage, 1972
Robin Skelton, Collage, 1972

December 1 – December 15, 1980

McPherson Library Gallery

Robin Skelton was born on October 12, 1925, in Yorkshire, and after his R.A.F. service, took a degree in English Language and Literature at the University of Leeds. He taught at the University of Manchester from 1951 to 1963. He began making collages in 1956 and exhibited regularly with the Peterloo Group. He came to the University of Victoria in 1973 and became the founding Chairman of the Department of Creative Writing. He was also the editor for the Malahat Review. During the 1970s, he exhibited his collages with the Limners group and in travelling exhibitions.

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