It's the Group of Seven, Royal City style.
New Westminster's Van Dop Gallery is hosting a special exhibition featuring a group of artists it's dubbed the New West 7 - seven well-known artists who live and work in the city.
The New West 7 exhibition will be part of the 10th annual New West Cultural Crawl on Saturday and Sunday.
A press release notes that visitors can check out the fine art and street photography of Gabor Gasztonyi, whose acclaimed book A Room in the City revealed the lives of many of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside residents.
Sharing a studio with Gasztonyi is Judith Copland, an established artist with more than 20 years of experience and as many solo exhibitions.
Leslie Poole, a lifelong Royal City resident, is one of the country's most exhibited artists, with more than 100 solo exhibitions in Canada and the U.S. during his active 40-year career.
Angela Au Hemphill, a local painter who belongs to the Federation of Canadian Artists, has won international recognition for her work, winning the 2010 Spilsbury Gold Medal award.
Jim Walsh, who paints under the alias J. Charles, is a local photographer, painter and teacher who started his career in New York and has seen his work exhibited across Canada and the U.S. Teressa L. Bernard, also a member of the Federation of Canadian Artists, was a silver medallist at the 2007 Spilsbury Medal Show and has work in collections across the country.
New to the gallery is Ceci Lam, a longtime participant in the Eastside Cultural Crawl, who brings her self-described "euphoric dance with colour" to the local exhibition.
The Van Dop Gallery is a converted New Westminster heritage property at 421 Richmond St.
It will be open during the New West Cultural Crawl from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., along with a host of other participating galleries and locations.
For full details, see www.newwestculturalcrawl.com.
