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- Collection: Rocky Dobey Portfolio
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'Bite Your Tongue' Elections Canada
Painting installed on an abandoned building during the 1984 political election.
After years of tight-fisted colonialism, nothing to smile about
Photo from 1988 at Queen and Gladstone in Toronto. "After years of tight fisted colonialism... nothing to smile about."
Anti-police billboard
Photograph of a billboard put up after Gardner Myers was killed by police. July 1988. Lester Donaldson's name was added August 9 when he also was killed by the police.
Coca Cola-nization
Political billboard bolted to an abandoned building on Queen Street West.
General Strike
This was a painted book installed on Bathurst Street.
Gentrification
One of many paintings covering an abandoned building at Portland and Queen.
Homeless
This painting was installed on a vacant building at Portland and Queen St.
Honour Native Land: Support the Occupation of Revenue Canada
This protest banner was installed on a vacant bank at Bathurst and Queen St.
Honour Native Rights: Support Native Self-Determination
Painting mounted on boarding of empty lot near Jarvis and Queen.
In politics, there is no gratitude
This was bolted to a building on Ryerson Avenue in Toronto.
Jim Campbell
A street installed memorial on Parliament Street. In Toronto. I miss Jim.
July 11, 1990
The first day of the Oka uprising.
Leonard Peltier
Photograph of a painting on reflection office tower glass that was then mounted to an abandoned building on Queen Street near John.
MediaCon gallery
These parody advertising billboards were bolted to an abandoned building on Augusta Avenue, north of Dundas Street.
Prisoners' Justice Day
A painted book bolted to a street pole near the Don Jail in Toronto.
Rape. It sounds all too familiar.
An unauthorized feminist billboard installed on an abandoned building at Queen and Portland.
Ronnie B.
A drug overdose memorial plaque bolted to a street pole.
Rosie died
This was a plaque that was chained to a street post on Queen Street.
Street billboard, bolted to abandoned building
Photograph of a billboard put up after Gardner Myers was killed by police. July 1988. Lester Donaldson's name was added August 9 when he also was killed by the police.
Survival Gathering poster
A silkscreen poster made in the summer of 1987 to fund the Toronto Survival Gathering.