Margaret Ezekiel at galerie 103 in Kukui`ula Village, Poi`pu     [ view exhibit images ]

GALERIE 103 presents In The Between, a solo exhibition by Kaua`i artist, Margaret Ezekiel, featuring current work, continuing her figurative exploration into consciousness, connections, and change, together with the Processionseries of seven individual panels from her personal collection, not shown in its entirety since the 2004-2005 exhibit at The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu.

Of her work Ezekiel states:

“This body of recent works on paper concerns consciousness, connections, and change, but as I write those words I realize that for me it has always been so, whether the pastel-drawn image describes clouds in a twilight sky over a darkened street, or in all the nuances of plain black charcoal, depicts a woman's face floating to the surface of the page, or a fragile dust-winged moth, paper-white on the grid of a checkered tablecloth.

In the safe space of my studio I stand before the drawing wall facing my fear and inspiration. Each time I draw, I practice: letting go the impulse to think, to name, to limit, to edit, to censor. I practice simply allowing, by getting out of my own way, to let appear on the page what's in the heart, in the room, in the moment, and in so doing, to recognize the perfection in that imperfect attempt to put on paper what can never be put on paper. I suspect that's what makes art so poignantly human, recognizing both the futility and the truth, that only the desire to put it paper is what appears; I draw only the desire.

This, in my experience, is a solitary, self-effacing, unending practice, and yet the feeling lingers, that somewhere else, someone else is drawing this - elsewhere, someone else is writing this."

Ezekiel's, In The Between, featuring both pastel and charcoal drawings, will open with a reception from 6 - 8 p.m. on Thursday, March 3, continuing through April 30, 2011.

An informal conversation and walk-through of her work with Margaret Ezekiel, 6 - 8 p.m. on Thursday, March 31, 2011.