"Cross Connections" at the Legacy Art Gallery and Café

Gregg Simpson, Landlocked, acrylic on canvas, 1967



The University of Victoria’s Legacy Art Gallery and Café presents Cross Connections: Five Decades of Contemporary Art in the Pacific Northwest, from Jan. 6 to Feb. 21, 2010.

The show 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 Legacy Art Gallery and Café, located at 630 Yates Street in downtown Victoria, is open Wednesday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free. For more information visit legacygallery.ca or call 250-381-7670.