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Basia Krol's solo exhibition "Wherever I May Roam" will begin Tuesday, Feb. 4, with a reception from 4:30-6 p.m.
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Basia Krol to be Featured at WIU Art Gallery

January 29, 2025

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MACOMB, IL - - Galesburg artist, Basia Krol, will have her solo exhibition, "Where I May Roam" on display Tuesday, Feb. 4 through Friday, March 21 at the Western Illinois University Art Gallery.

A reception for Krol will be held 4:30-6 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 4, with words from the artist at 5 p.m.

Admission is free and open to the public.

Krol was born and raised in Warsaw, Poland, where she studied painting and printmaking at The Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts and traveled through Europe to study old masters in major collections. She received her Masters Degree in Studio Art from The Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in 2000.

Since the pandemic Krol has been painting almost exclusively landscapes based on native and restored habitats of the Midwest. She paints in oil on canvas as she considers that tradition the knowledge of our ancestors. Her paintings are loosely realistic but abstract upon closer inspection. She enjoys moving her body through spacetime both hiking and dancing while she paints. The painting is finished in meditative and calligraphy details with the intention of transporting the viewer to metaphysical places they don't know they miss.

For more information on the WIU Art Gallery, visit wiu.edu/artgallery.

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