Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, Universty of Toronto
April 8 – June 7, 2002
John Scott, Subject, ca 1995. Mixed media on paper. Courtesy of the artist.
Social Consciousness in Canadian Art examined art as a communicative tool and motivator for social change, which included historical and contemporary work drawn from the Hart House Permanent Collection.
Featured artists: Anne Meredith Barry, Aba Bayefsky, David Bierk, Bruno Bobak, David Burnett, Sheila Butler, Charles Comfort, Cathy Daley, Evergon, General Idea, Gershon Iskowitz, Wanda Koop, Micah Lexier, Robert Marchessault, Norval Morriseau, Jane Ash Poitras, John Scott, Eugenio Telléz, Denyse Thomas, and Joyce Weiland.
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