For Eyelevel Gallery, it’s now all about the destination—screw the journey. Officially opening this week in its new, hopefully permanent space at 2482 Maynard Street, the gallery ends a seven-year run of constantly scratching out and re-writing its postal code, trying to find its place in the north end’s booming real estate market. That journey […]
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First look: Eyelevel Artist Run Centre & Bookstore
Eyelevel Artist Run Centre & Bookstore Tue-Fri noon-5pm 2177 Gottingen Street Of all the doors lining Gottingen Street, only one is as bright yellow as a banana or sunflower petal. Only one is a secret portal to shelves lined with work by some of the city’s most exciting artists. Only one leads to Eyelevel Artist […]
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Visual arts review: Poems for Impending Doom
Poems for Impending Doom Art Bar, 1873 Granville Street March 29, 7pm cfat.ca/poemsforimpendingdoom “The world is pretty fucked up right now—let’s write some poems about how we would do it if we could do it all again,” reads the opening statement for Poems for Impending Doom, launching March 29 at Art Bar. In this spirit, […]
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11 ways to see (or create) art this summer
May-October Halifax talks art Interested in supporting local artists? Are you a looking to fill some empty walls, or maybe even begin your own art collection? Halifax Talks Art has you covered this summer. Running from May to October, various commercial galleries in Halifax will be host talks on collecting. various locations, Wednesdays, 6:30-8pm, RSVP […]
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Visual art review: Danika Vandersteen, Works
This month Eyelevel christens its new gallery space with a member’s show by Danika Vandersteen. Shifting from landscape paintings to cartoons, from the decorative arts to quirky assemblages, Vandersteen’s paintings, sculptures and buttery leather goods show an eye for detail and a goofy sense of luxury. In her paintings lanky, cartoonish figures with oblong googly […]
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Art me up
A melange of medium, background, purpose and inspiration await with this year’s crop of New Art. Here are the art-makers, free-thinkers and heart-cradlers to watch in 2018. Emmanuel Nwogbo Shary Boyle & Emily Vey Kevin Cormier Kelsey Borden Ben Waye Carrie Allison Waka Okabayashi Eyelevel Gallery Related Stories
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Eyelevel Gallery’s steady outlook
The last few years have seen some serious redesigns for Halifax’s artist-run centres. Around the same time that the Khyber was pushed out of its home on Barrington Street, Eyelevel Gallery—one of Canada’s oldest artist-run centres—also moved out of its space downtown, due to high rent costs. The Eyelevel board and then-director Katie Belcher took […]
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Eyelevel artistic director Katie Belcher moves on to Vancouver’s Access Gallery
Eyelevel‘s artistic director Katie Belcher is leaving the artist-run centre and relocating to Vancouver to become Access Gallery‘s newest director/curator in October. “It is difficult to leave after building my life here for fourteen years, but shifting to another coast feels reassuring somehow, and I have already been so welcomed by the community as the […]
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Eyelevel Gallery’s Food for Thoughts talks about fatness
Geneviève Brideau & Parker Houghtaling, ARTFAT—Taking our fat bodies back from the clutches of semiotics Sunday, July 23, 2pm If you self-identify as QTBIPOC, POC and LGBTQ2SIA+, and want to sign up, email fun@eyelevelgallery.ca “It’s an artist talk, but it’s also an artist-listen,” says artist Parker Houghtaling, grasping at words to describe his latest project with […]
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Everything and the Kitchen Sink
Spring cleaning brings hope of decluttering to homes everywhere, but all that mess has to go somewhere. Enter Eyelevel Gallery. The uniquely site-less organization is turning trash into treasure with an indoor yard sale cheekily called Kitchen Sink. Eyelevel’s Emily Lawrence says that the goal is to foster a family friendly weekend that can be […]
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Chase the Space’s case
Chase the Space Monday, November 28 at 7pm Halifax Central Library, BMO Community Room HFXARTS@gmail.com There’s a shortage of space for artists in the HRM—and arts groups are getting together at the end of the month to talk about it. “Halifax has a rich arts community. To help it grow, we have to find a […]
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Eyelevel’s appetite for conversation
Emily Lawrence and I meet for our interview on a particularly summery-feeling afternoon. The heat is radiating from the sidewalk as we make our introductions. Soon, under a candy-blue sky, the meeting becomes an impromptu mini-picnic, complete with melting ice cream and sweating iced coffee on the Common. It’s fitting for the subject matter as […]