The Gaze | Eyelevel Gallery

Eyelevel Gallery, a Nova Scotian non-profit, and charitable organization, is not your typical art gallery. Founded by female artists under the name Inventions Gallery in 1972, the space changed its name to its current one in 1974, alongside opening its membership to include male artists. Widely recognized as one of the oldest artist-run alternative art spaces, Eyelevel Gallery provides a forum for discussion and a platform for education of contemporary art.

In 2013, the gallery gave up its permanent exhibition space, hitting the road to eight Maritime locations and pushing the boundaries of what an exhibition can be. New audiences were met and what could have been perceived as a crisis, was instead seen as an opportunity to explore new avenues.

For the last 40 years, the gallery's direction has remained very close to its roots and foundation. On a mission to present, develop and promote contemporary art, the organization offers a broad range of programming (exhibitions, performances, special projects, workshops).

Stay tuned for the launch of "Sitelines" at Eyelevel Gallery this September. Through critical writing, case studies and commissioned artwork, the project will retrospect on issues arising from the gallery's first few years as an artist-run center without a permanent gallery space.

Eyelevel Gallery

5663 Cornwallis Street, Suite 101, Halifax, NS

www.eyelevelgallery.ca

© Photos by: Ainsley Cunningham, Peter Van Gurp, Steven Beckly.