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A HOST of North Shore artists — from the experimental to
the traditional — is included in a group of artists featured in
the Artropolis contemporary art show showing until Oct.31.

Featuring over 200 artists from
all disciplines, Artropolis: Exhib-
ition cf Contemporary British
Columbia Art is a multi-media
showing that includes music, video
and performance art as well as
painting, photography and
sculpture.

“There are not too many con-
temporary art galleries in Van-
couver,’> laments. North Van-
couver artist Marilyn Mylrea, 33,
who has two works in the show.

In her work Dancing the Song of
Death with David, Mylrea explores
a reversal of roles between the liv-
ing and dead. In Dancing, Mylrea
depicts herself as the shadow danc-
ing with the back of a figure of
Michaelangelo’s sculpture David.

Usually large — Dancing is six
feet high by over four feet wide —
Mylrea’s works often look deeply
beyond the subject matter, as in
her Suicidal Face.

West Vancouver’s Sarzh Beech,
31, explores her subjects with a
keen eye and a camera. Setting up
a series of still-life shots, Beech br-
ings a special insight to the objects
in her life — things she got for her

By STEPHEN BARR
News Reporter

last birthday included.

“I’ve got my 30th birthday
things — a Slinky, a glue gun, a
box of chocolates and there’s a
balloon,’’ she explains of one of
her still-life photo series.

_ Other objects that appear in
Beech’s photographic artwork are
her dog’s things and even things
belonging to a three-year-old child
of one of her friends.

It is new, interesting and, as the
show. promises, contemporary.
“It’s not traditional. 1 guess it’s
experimental if you want to put it
that way.”

Pooran Azarm Darvish, 38, and
Pari Motamedi, 41, sisters from
West Vancouver, bring their works
of ceramic sculpture and Chinese
ink paintings to the show.

Creating only handmade pieces,
usually unglazed, Darvish likes the
properties of clay as its special
qualities allow her to express
herself more freely.

“My pieces are formed by digg-

ing deeply into my (Iranian) cul-
tural background and traditional
experiences”? is how she described
her work to the jury of show
judges.

Painting delicate scenes of ‘‘my
dreams,’’ Motamedi works in the
Persian style of miniature paint-
ings reflecting, as in her sister’s
work, her native Iran.

Persian poet/writer
Khayyam is foremost among
Motamedi’s inspirations, and
specific works have come from
certain excerpts from his writings.

These four North Shore artists
— just some of a number of North
Shore artists in the show — are in
good company with big Van-
couver-area art names such as
gallery owner Diane Farris and
Vancouver Art Gallery curator
Willard Holmes.

“‘Artropolis presents a superb
opportunity for the general public
to see the wealth of ideas and the
wide variety of artistic creation be-
ing produced in this province,’’
proclaims Farris, one of five ad-
visors to the exhibition.

Omar

Artropolis runs Oct. 3 to 31 at
788 Beatty St. in Vancouver. The
show is open from 1!1 a.m. to 7
p.m. Tuesdays to Saturdays.
Hours Sundays are noon to 5 p.m.

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NEWS photos Mike Wakofieid

NORTH SHORE artists will be displaying their works in Artropolis — an
exhibition of contemporary British Columbian art — until Oct. 31. Pic-
tured are local artists (clockwise, from rear left) Marilyn Mylrea, Pari
Motamedi, Pooran Azarm Darvish and Sarah Beech. -

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