Peace of Art at the Driscoll Art Gallery, Brockton PublicLibrary

by: Rosario Teixeira

Peace of Art will be on exhibit at the Driscoll Art Gallery, Brockton PublicLibrary, 304 Main Street, Brockton, Massachusetts,during the month of December 2003.  Catered reception will be on December 9th from 6:00 p.m. to 8 p.m.

PEACE of ART is a global traveling art exhibit of twenty-one paintings addressing issues of universal human concern. It has been the artist Daniel Varoujan Hejinian's dream to create a global traveling art exhibit to promote peace. This seems a natural progression because Varoujan has been using his art to promote social changed. He has contributed with paintings to raise funds for many local and national charitable organizations which provide vital services.

PEACE of ART series speak eloquently, as an inescapable mirror where we see ourselves and our society. The art work addresses sensitive issues around the globe. The specks of injustice, blotches of hunger and homelessness, weapons of mass destruction, sickness, despair, repressed voices that have been silenced, others blinded and deafen trying to survive. Amidst it all, a mother protects a child holding a dove of peace, a battered woman breaks her silence, two people find solace in each other and the strength to make a difference. In Peace of Heart, he's in constant fear of losing his loved one, his hand shows the mark of cruxification as a permanent reminder of the September 11th terrorist attack, one side of his face leans toward the woman he hugs, the other is looking out in fear. In a split second we can loose a loved one. There is a white dove flying elsewhere...