Tag Archives: Mixed Media

In the Moment

In the Moment, Frances Baskerville

In the Moment, Frances Baskerville

May 16 – June 9, 2012

Legacy Art Gallery Downtown

Curated by Elyse Portal

Featuring Fran Baskerville’s creative process after answering a proposal to create public art at the Gordon Head Rec Centre. In the Moment reveals Baskerville’s creative process in response to a public art call to celebrate multiculturalism and community in the Greater Victoria Region. To answer the call, Frances embarked on an artistic journey of site-visits, photographic reconnaissance, and research spanning aikido, Degas, Cézanne and the Olympics.

“Whether it takes the form of physical movement, as in dance, or the form of emotional or spiritual intensity, I try to capture particular moments,” Frances Baskerville.

Her practice navigates themes of imprisonment and liberation through painting the human form, “My figures are striving …often for something they cannot reach or can reach only momentarily. Moments of release are short-lived but beautiful.”

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Convergence/Divergence: Landscape and Identity on the West Coast

Head of Canada, Katherine Emma Maltwood, sandstone, 1912

Head of Canada, Katherine Emma Maltwood, sandstone, 1912

August 17 – October 1, 2011

Legacy Art Gallery Downtown

Curated by Caroline Riedel

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Convergence/Divergence Catalogue

Click here to read more about this show on the University of Victoria’s website.

This exhibition explores how a selection of artists from diverse cultural backgrounds respond to the West Coast landscape as a means of expressing identity, while also suggesting ways in which an artist’s identity provides a lens for presenting or interpreting landscape.

The works highlight contrasting artistic approaches and ways of relating to local landscapes, illustrating both First Nations and settler’s complex relationships to the places they live. Through a selection of prints, drawings, sculpture, paintings and mixed media works, this exhibit shows some of the many ways in which West Coast artists express identity in terms of a sense of self, place, or community.

The title of this exhibition refers at once to both commonalities in how people relate to, identify with, inhabit or “resonate” with a particular place (convergence) and the different ways artists see, experience, represent and interpret that place (divergence).

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

View the online catalogue:

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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Active Practice: Camosun College Visual Arts Faculty 30th Anniversary

January 16 – February 21, 2006

Legacy Maltwood (at Mearns Centre – McPherson Library)

Curated by Robbyn Gordon Lanning

A collaboration exhibition by the Visual Arts Faculty from Camosun College to celebrate the school’s 30th anniversary.

Artists shown: Ralph Stanbridge, Judie Price, Brenda Petays, Nancy Yakimoski, Joseph Hoh, John G. Boehme, Tom Severson, Bob Preston, and Michael Yerkovich.

27 x Sonia: Portraits by Walter Gramatté (1897-1929)

September 7 – October 17, 1993

Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery

This small exhibition of works on paper is a travelling show from the University of Winnipeg. It has been organized from the personal collection of Dr. Ferdinand Eckhardt, Director Emeritus of the Winnipeg Art Gallery. The subject of the portraits is the musician and composer Sonia C. Eckhardt-Gramatté (1899-1974), the widow of the German expressionist painter Walter Gramatté and Dr. Eckhardt’s late wife.

The portraits when taken together are indicative of much about Gramatté as an artist. He experimented and perfected his technique in the use of several graphic media, notably etchings, which were important to him through the 1920s. he had earlier produced woodcuts, lithographs (sometimes coloured) and dry points as well: all are represented in this exhibition.

The Art of Music

Untitled; (man playing saxophone), Eric Metcalfe, 1991

Untitled; (man playing saxophone), Eric Metcalfe, 1991

March 28 – April 30, 2001

Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery

The Art of Music brings together a selection of items from the University’s extensive art collection, some 14,000 objects representing the decorative and fine arts world-wide. Art and music probably first came together in the decoration of musical instruments themselves and in the regalia used in performances with musical accompaniment.