[BCMA] Legacy Art Gallery - Fwd: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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Subject: 	FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date: 	Sat, 26 May 2012 15:15:14 -0700



Now on exhibit at the Legacy Art Gallery:

In the Moment

"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. After careers in education, librarianship and public
service management, Frances dedicated her life to art. 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."

In the Moment, at the Legacy Gallery from May 16th to June 9th, 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.

But how does she visually translate cultural diversity and locale? How
does she capture the energy of a moment?

The University of Victoria Art Collections invites the public to find out
how Baskerville answers these questions in the free exhibition at the
Legacy Gallery, 630 Yates Street, May 16 -- June 9, 2012.

After attaining a Masters degree from the University of Western Ontario,
Baskerville went on to graduate from the Victoria College of Art in 2000.
Her work highlights the human form in large, emotionally charged acrylic
canvases. A recipient of the Herbert Siebner Practising Artist Award,
Frances has had solo shows throughout the Northwest Coast of British
Columbia and the United States.  Her work has been exhibited at Arthur
Leggett Fine Art in Toronto, THEWORKS Festival of Art in Edmonton, the BC
Festival of the Arts, the Campbell River Art Gallery, and the Maple Ridge
and Burnaby art galleries. Among her many commissions is a 10-foot square
mural for the City of Victoria beautification project at Royal Athletic
Park.  In August 2010 her installation "In the moment," a 13 panel mural
based on the theme "multiculturalism and community" was inaugurated at the
Gordon Head Recreation Centre. Frances Baskerville is represented by
Madrona Gallery.

For more information visit uvac.uvic.ca, or to schedule an interview
contact Elyse Portal atelyseportal at gmail.com.

Legacy Gallery
630 Yates Street
Open: Wednesday - Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Phone: 250.721.6562



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University of Victoria Art Collections (UVAC)

The University of Victoria Art Collections has two main galleries: The
Legacy Art Gallery at 630 Yates Street and the Maltwood Prints and
Drawings Gallery at the McPherson Library, UVic.



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