Housepaint - Phase 2: Shelter

My friend Jeff pointed me towards this exhibition. Check it out. It's your duty!

From the ROM website "The Institute for Contemporary Culture presents Housepaint, the first exhibition on the subject of street art in a major Canadian museum. Drawing attention to issues of poverty and homelessness, this ground-breaking exhibition is a collaboration between ten street artists in memory of the former residents of Tent City. Each artist has painted a colourful canvas house in their personal, exuberant style. In addition, five artists will respond to the previous installations by creating an original new work in the gallery over the course of the exhibition.

Tent City, a shanty town that stood on five acres of undeveloped land on the shores of Lake Ontario, spontaneously arose in the late 1990s. Its residents were evicted without warning in 2002.

Curated by Devon Ostrom of them.ca, Housepaint will be on display until July 2009, at which point the canvas houses will be auctioned, with proceeds going to Habitat for Humanity.

For more information, updates on the exhibition, to register for the auction, or to add your own comments, please visit www.housepaint.ca"

Now open at the ROM until July 5, 2009 at the Institute for Contemporary Culture
Roloff Beny Gallery, Level 4 of the ROM in Toronto.