explores how artists on the West Coast of BC, both settler and First
Nations, 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
selected highlight contrasting artistic approaches and ways of relating to
local landscapes, illustrating both First Nations' and settlers' 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 differing ways artists see, experience,
represent and interpret that place (divergence).
Some of the area's best-known artists are featured, including Emily Carr,
Rande Cook, Donald Harvey, E. J. Hughes, Max Maynard, Marianne Nicolson,
Toni Onley and Norman Yates.
This free exhibit runs August 17 to October 1, 2011, at the Legacy
Gallery, 630 Yates Street. Hours are Wednesday to Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4
p.m.
For more information, please visit uvac.uvic.ca.
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