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February 10 - March 18, 2000
Organized by the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa

The Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery of Concordia University presented the exhibition Through An-Other's Eyes: White Canadian Artists - Black Female Subjects, from February 10 to March 18, 2000. Curated by Canadian scholar Charmaine Nelson, the show demonstrated the persistent historical interest in the Black female subject by White Canadian artists. Comprising over thirty paintings and sculptures spanning over two centuries of Canadian art, the purpose of the exhibition was to re-examine the historical context within which the works were produced and to raise important questions surrounding ingrained beliefs about the power and function of art and the historical significance and dominance of colonial ideals of race and sex. The exhibition included works by renowned Canadian artists such as, Thomas Harold Beament, François Malépart de Beaucourt, Molly Lamb Bobak, Lawren P. Harris, Prudence Heward, Edwin Holgate, John Lyman, Henrietta Shore, James Wilson Morrice, Louis Muhlstock, Dorothy Stevens and Joanne Tod.