Gallery Beat The Triumph of the Poppy by Barbara West - T h o u g h t Provoking Art Broken Values, a mixed media e x h i b i t i o n , comments on the political, spiritual and social climate in the w o r l d today. Artists have always had an important role in the global awareness of society by voicing the reality in which we live. A segment of society believes that our values are compromised and our principles have been misplaced with a focus on consumerist culture and celebrity infatuation. Broken Values challenges artists to interpret their view of the current global situation and its future. Changes, The Free Spirits exhibition, portrays a spectrum of art that highlights the conversion from representational and organic to abstract and geometric with many w o r k s being a combination of the two extremes. T h e Free Spirits is an artist collective, consisting of A n n Haessel, Vickie N e w i n g t o n and Barbara West, w h o are inspired by architecture and the environment. Whatever the subject, the w o r k is textured and manipulated to be illustrative of modern day trends in fibre art today. WHAT: Broken Values WHERE: CityScape Community Art Space, 335 Lonsdale (between 3rd & 4th Avenues! WHEN: March 23 - April 15, Opening Reception: March 23 @ 7 pm WHAT: Changes WHEN: April 21 - May 27, Opening Reception: April 20 @ 7 pm - Raising Awareness for Women & the Environment In honour of International Women's Day, the Ferry Building Gallery hosts the mixed media, juried group exhibit W O M A N . International Women's D a y - M a r c h 8, is recognized by women's groups all over the w o r l d . T h e artwork is diverse as some artists celebrate the female f o r m , some tell a story of women's lives and roles in our society, some represent women's experience in our culture and in other cultures, some are an abstract interpretation of women's experiences and some are historical accounts of women's lives. Barry C o g s w e l l is the artist of the solo exhibition Inheritance. Creating art since the early sixties, Barry has explored different mediums. Recently, he has decided to focus o n a subject close to his heart. "I like to think that my sculpture was about art and the spiritual quest, but I believe my paintings concern a far more fundamental, and important, issue: H o w to stop the current appalling destruction of the natural w o r l d that is a product of the human population explosion and our rush to development. I use butterflies as symbols of the thousands of species that we destroy with the felling of the world's forests." WHAT: WOMAN WHERE: Ferry Building Gallery, 1414 Argyle Ave., West Vancouver WHEN: March 7 - March 26, Opening Reception: March 7,6 - 8pm WHAT: Inheritance WHEN: April 18 - May 7, Opening Reception: April 18,6 - 8pm 6 March | April