Forget About the Art, Let’s Party!
Eyelevel Member’s Exhibition & 50th Anniversary Time Capsule Opening

December 7 — December 29, 2024
open 12-6pm Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays or by appointment


Opening Reception: Saturday, December 7th, 2-6pm

Exhibition Talk + Tour: Saturday, December 7th at 3pm by Time Capsule Coordinator Eryn Foster

Gallery Hop: Saturday, December 7th, 12-5pm

*Please note masks will be required for the reception and duration of this exhibition (KN95 and 9N5 masks will be provided)

In 2006, members of Eyelevel were invited to contribute works no larger than 4 x 4 x 4 inches under the following prompt:

“In 2024, Eyelevel Gallery will be celebrating its 50th anniversary, and digging up buried treasure! The Members’ exhibition currently on display will, at the end of the month, be placed in a time capsule and buried at a secret location, not to be seen again for 18 long years.

Eyelevel Gallery has a reputation for seeking out and promoting contemporary art and artists. Its members live in Halifax and across the country, consisting of both well established names and new emerging voices. These are the artists that have been invited to contribute to this collective show. Submissions will be accepted up until the final day. On July 29th, following appropriate celebrations, the time capsule will be closed and hidden away until 2024.”

The works in this members’ exhibition are playful and irreverent, beckoning some of the long-standing questions in artist-run culture such as who gets to make determinations on the value of what we consider to be “good” or “bad” art? “High” or “low” quality? Do we derive value in the things we make, from their longevity, or the memories they invoke and how they bring people together? How do we mark the passage of time in our city as artists, and what, if any, responsibility do we have as witnesses or instigators of its changes?

18 years later, the Time Capsule has been collected and its contents exhumed. This show reconnects old friends and new community in a quirky and touching display of nostalgia, artistic coming-of-age, and mid-2000s Halifax. Eyelevel is proud to celebrate our 50th Anniversary with members across disciplines, cities, and breadths of life.


Talk & Tour:
Taking place on Saturday, December 7th at 3pm by Time Capsule Coordinator Eryn Foster, the talk and tour will be live-streamed on zoom and ASL interpretation will be provided. A full access guide and digital exhibition will be available at www.eyelevel.art


Participating Artists (in no particular order):

Brian Lamey, Katharine Hanczaryk, Francesca Tallone, Gregory Denton, Kate O'Connor, Jane Mason-Browne, Mitchell Wiebe, Christina Gunn, Sofia Ferrari, Brenna Paige Phillips, Christine Holzer-Hunt, Lucas Dambergs, Bruce Barber, John Murchie, Terry Piercey, Sojourner Parsons, Marissa Gough, Mireille Bourgeois, Larissa Muzzy, Sophie Pilipczuk, Michael Young, Erin Jamieson, Tonia Di Risio, Sue Mills, Ginger Scott, Patrick Rapati, Robert Zigone, Andrew McLaren, Gerard Choy, Cocco Russell Falk, Joseph Russell Falk, Michael Fernandes, Mathew Reichertz, Alisha Boyd, Jason Johnson, Adriana Kuiper, Rose Adams, Tim Watson, Mary Wong, Johanna van Waarden, Janus McBride, Terry Havlis Drahos, Nicola Mulder, Jeremy Vaughan, Konrad Wendt, Steven Fisher, James MacSwain, Sym Corrigan and Mathew Reichertz, Christa Romley

*Please note masks will be required for the reception and duration of this exhibition (KN95 and 9N5 masks will be provided)

Eyelevel is an arts worker/artist-run organization mandated to present and support the development of socially relevant and thought-provoking artistic practices locally, regionally and nationally. Eyelevel supports artists through residencies, mentorship, publishing and presentation outside of a traditional gallery context accompanied by care-oriented and trauma-informed artistic, professional and personal support. Eyelevel aims to raise public awareness and capacity of our local arts community; particularly artists and arts workers who have been historically underserved and misrepresented in the contemporary art dialogue. Eyelevel strives to be a connector between artists, communities and the broader public, constantly questioning the balance of power and working against systemic oppression and discrimination by centring anti-violence and pro-survivor practices. Eyelevel works in treaty to build a more inclusive and caring world through art, and to advance positive change within the arts through its operations, policies and programming.

HERMES is participating in the latest Gallery Hop organized by Prow Gallery. Click the images to check out the other galleries and events happening on Saturday, December 7th!