September 3 – September 30, 2003
Legacy Maltwood (at Mearns Centre – McPherson Library)
An exhibit in conjunction with Campus & Community Celebration, UVic’s 40th anniversary. The exhibit features the opportunity to learn more about the University of Victoria and its predecessors.
March 1 – March 31, 2003
Legacy Maltwood (at Mearns Centre – McPherson Library)
This was an exhibition in conjunction with Community Week and the University of Victoria’s 100th anniversary. This exhibition featured acrylic paintings and studies by Sanda Wiles, a UVic Alumna.
Nature shows a quiet but powerful play between perfection and irregularities… My work plays with this tension, this syncopation between the anticipated and the unexpected.
-Sandra Wiles, 2003
January 21 – February 13, 2003
Legacy Maltwood (at Mearns Centre – McPherson Library)
An exhibit of drawings, paintings, prints, sculpture ceramics and jewellery by the University of Victoria Art Education Faculty. Artists featured included Robert Dalton, Walter Dexter, Don Bergland, Bill Zuk, Helen Smith, Ron Smith, Kathy Collis, Caren Willms and Stan Horner.
November 14 – December 13, 2002
Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery
Curated by Caroline Reidel
An exhibition featuring the Finnerty Gardens-inspired photography of Daphne Donaldson, a UVic staff member and volunteer with the Finnerty Garden Friends.
October 2 – October 31, 2002
Maltwood Legacy (at Mearns Centre – McPherson Library)
This was an exhibit of watercolour paintings with a focussed colour palette by retired University of Victoria faculty member, Walter Riedel.
Riedel has been a professor of Germanic Studies at Victoria College and the University of Victoria since 1982. Though Riedel is inspired by local land and seascapes, he describes his work as “somewhat experimental.”
July 3 – July 10, 2002
Legacy Maltwood (at Mearns Centre – McPherson Library)
This was an installation exhibit by University of Victoria graduate student, Laura De Decker.
I challenge both the concept and conceived limitations of various media. The media that i work with include colour, data, computer technology, language, systems, and methods. At times what seems to be two distinct media merge into one or vice versa.
-Laura De Decker, 2002
April 2 – June 13, 2002
Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery
Curated by Pat George and Phyllis Serota
Exhibition of UVic Visual Arts alumni. Thirty years’ worth of Visual Arts BFA graduates have been invited to participate in this exhibit, the first of its kind at UVic. Over sixty artists’ pieces will be included in the exhibit. The works chosen will reflect the diversity of the artists’ interests and artistic explorations in painting, drawing, sculpture and other mixed media work.
November 9 – November 29, 2001
Legacy Maltwood (at Mearns Centre – McPherson Library)
An exhibit of student works from Fine Arts 350: Introduction to Architecture Theory and Practice.
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.
November 10 – November 23, 2000
Legacy Maltwood (at Mearns Centre – McPherson Library)
An exhibit of artwork by UVic Alumna and artist Pilar Mehlis. The exhibit features paintings of characters that influenced the artists life in both positive and negative ways. Through her art, she creates the atmosphere of an unfinished story so that the spectator can arrive at their own conclusions.
About the Artist:
Born in La Paz, Bolivia, Pilar Mehlis moved to Canada and graduated with a double major in Visual Arts and Art History in 1999. She is an award wining painter, and has had a number of solo exhibitions.
Inspiration, Susan Point, 2000
April 6 – May 3, 2000
Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery
Curated by Jim Galvao and Caroline Riedel
An exhibit that forms part of the University’s week-long Millennium Festival, April 1 to 7, celebrating the outstanding achievements of University of Victoria honorands such as Michael Snow, Pat Martin Bates, Ed Harris, Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic, Susan Point, Henry Hunt and Ted Harrison.
This exhibition is about more than just artwork, it is a tribute to the lifelong pursuit of excellence and those individuals who embody that pursuit: the honourary Degree recipients of the University of Victoria.
-Jim Galvao, 2000
January 11 – January 28, 2000
Legacy Maltwood (at Mearns Centre – McPherson Library)
This was an intimate look into the creative lives of those who teach in the Department of Art Education at the University of Victoria.
The artists included Don Bergland, Robert Dalton, Walter Dexter, Helen Smith, Kathy Collis, Bill Zuk, and Gillian Davidson. They explored the social issues surrounding technology and the environment.