Galesburg artist, Basia Krol, will have her solo exhibition, "Wherever I May Roam", on display February 4 through March 21 at the Western Illinois University Art Gallery. 

A reception for the artist will be held Tuesday, February 4, 4:30-6:00 p.m. The artist will speak about her work at 5:00 pm.

Barbara “Basia” Krol was born and raised in Warsaw, Poland. She studied painting and printmaking at 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 Warsaw Academy of Fine Art in 2000. Following several Artist in Residency programs in the US, Krol moved to Chicago in 2004 and then downstate to Galesburg IL in 2011, to raise a family. 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 place they don't know they miss.

Admission is free and open to the public. 

Parking will be allowed near the gallery starting at 4:00 pm.

Image: The Great Arch, oil on canvas. 60 x 72 in., 2024