{"id":171843,"date":"2023-01-24T12:49:27","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T22:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=171843"},"modified":"2023-01-24T14:13:54","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T00:13:54","slug":"emily-mcilroy-at-gallery-iolani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/01\/24\/emily-mcilroy-at-gallery-iolani\/","title":{"rendered":"Danger, wonder, existential questions in new art exhibit at Windward CC<\/abbr>"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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Insides and Outsides detail by Emily McIlroy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

An exhibit showcasing a body of work spanning 13 years by a University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa<\/a> art and art history lecturer, Listening for a Heartbeat: Works by Emily McIlroy<\/em>, runs at Windward Community College<\/a>\u2019s Gallery ʻIolani<\/span><\/a> February 3–March 3, 2023.<\/p>\n

“This exhibition is sensitive and powerful at the same time,” said Toni Martin<\/strong>, Windward CC<\/abbr> art professor and Gallery ʻIolani<\/span> director.<\/p>\n

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The Lilies How They Grow VII<\/abbr> by Emily McIlroy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

According to Emily McIlroy<\/strong>\u2019s website<\/a>, Listening for a Heartbeat<\/em> brings together a collection of McIlroy\u2019s mixed-media drawings and paintings, spanning the years 2008 to 2021. McIlroy\u2019s art practice is rooted in her relationship with the natural world and fueled by internal exploration. With the deaths of her twin brother (2007), mother (2015) and father (2019), McIlroy came to see her inner realm of thoughts, memories and emotions as a wilderness—a space that harbors great danger as well as extraordinary wonder.<\/p>\n

The works in this exhibition are McIlroy\u2019s attempt to navigate and understand this territory. They orient her toward truths that lie outside the light of full awareness. Each piece or series of pieces arose out of inquiry into existential questions. In the years following the death of her twin, who had suffered from mental illness for many years, McIlroy was left suspended between a world she could not yet enter and a world to which she no longer felt she belonged.<\/p>\n

The title artwork, Listening for a Heartbeat<\/em> (oil and pastel on paper), says much about McIlroy\u2019s pursuit of reconciling past with present, looking outward and inward.<\/p>\n

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Listening for a Heartbeat by Emily McIlroy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The artist\u2019s description reads: “And when all went quiet and we could no longer make out the sound of these murmurings, I leaned back just a little into the spine that curved against my spine, and I said to the heart outside myself, ‘Where are you?’ And the heart outside myself said, ‘I\u2019m right here. Where are you?’ And I said, ‘I\u2019m right here, too.’ And that\u2019s how I knew I was alive and of the world. That I was nothing less and nothing more than everything that had already been, and everything that would ever be. Who I was was happening, and this happening could never be undone.”<\/p>\n

McIlroy earned her BA<\/abbr> in studio art from the University of Arizona in 2005 and her MFA in drawing and painting from UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa in 2011. She currently teaches in the drawing and painting program at UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa.<\/p>\n

The exhibit is part of Windward CC<\/abbr>\u2019s 50th anniversary celebration. An artist reception is scheduled for February 3, 4–7 p.m.<\/p>\n

Gallery hours are Monday through Friday and Sunday 1–5 p.m.<\/p>\n

For more information, visit gallery.windward.hawaii.edu<\/a> or call (808) 236-9155.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Artist and lecturer Emily McIlroy featured in exhibit at Gallery ʻIolani<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[105,1507,598,156,71,9,66],"class_list":["post-171843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-art","tag-art-and-art-history","tag-faculty-recognition","tag-gallery-iolani","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-uh-manoa","tag-windward-community-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171843"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171876,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171843\/revisions\/171876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}