ERI 5: THE RESISTANCE TO CHANGE

Visit http://reshelving.ca for even further details on artists and artworks in ERI 5! 

Eyelevel Reshelving Initiative is an international biennial exhibition of artist books, multiples, and printed matter. This show is exciting because most of the work is current and fresh. The show is a great opportunity to take a quick sampling of the work that is going on in Halifax and in the broader art community in the medium of printed matter. In the show, you will find work from Palimpsest (Montreal), Justin Tyler Tate (Estonia), Lisa Folkerson (Toronto), Yorodeo (Halifax), and John Devlin (Dartmouth) and more more more!

Applicants to this year's installment of the Eyelevel Reshelving Initiative were asked to consider the loose theme of 'resistance to change' when making and submitting their work. Many of the 125 + artists who did submit this year chose to include work that deals with this issue. From artist pins, to screen printed aprons, to work made with a printing press, to a book that was made with needle and thread, to a fully functional foam and cardboard eReader, the work in this year's show takes an irreverent and oppositional view on the steady march of 'progress'. As such the work speaks to a need to innovate, reinvent, and recreate the artist's surroundings.

For more information, please contact the curators Daniel Higham and Natasha Krzyzewski at submissions@reshelving.ca or the gallery at director@eyelevelgallery.ca 

Eyelevel Gallery is a not-for-profit charitable organization dedicated to the presentation, development and promotion of contemporary art. Through a range of programming initiatives such as exhibitions, performances, special projects, and workshops, Eyelevel Gallery has provided a forum for the discussion and education of contemporary visual art for 38 years. Eyelevel Gallery runs a small, non-profit book-store specializing in contemporary artist books, zines, stationary, audio art, exhibition catalogues, and multiples. Works for the book-store are selected through Gallery's biennial exhibition Eyelevel Reshelving Initiative and also through a regular call for submissions.

Please see: www.reshelving.ca for a sneak preview! Only three of each item available for ERI 5!

These items will be available for sale for the first time at the ERI 5 Opening reception on March 1st, and at Eyelevel Gallery and online after that for the duration of ERI 5!