​i.e. is so pleased to welcome Margaret Davidson back for her third solo exhibit with us.

Margaret Davidson has an uncanny skill for drawing a button, a grain of sand, or a scrap of newsprint and making it look exactly as if it were the real thing. Button's became a particular fascination of hers decades ago. In fact before her first show with i.e. gallery back in 2017 she told me "I'm done with buttons". Well they're back. With this new body of work Davidson takes us from the small button in hand into the larger universe of dark matter, contraspirals and deep time. She helps us wrap our heads around a different concept of "home". Beyond our own little back yard.


Artist’s Statement
Ever since the flooding that happened this last spring, I have been thinking about the idea of ‘home’.  Because I live near the Skagit River, I did evacuate for a few days, but was lucky that the dikes held, and my own house was not harmed.

As I thought more about it, the idea of ‘home’ became more than just my wee house, but grew to be the idea of the whole earth spinning about in the universe, where every single life form that we know of is alive now or has been alive in the past, and calls this place home.   And then came the realization that all of the life on the earth is, as far as we know, ALL life — ever.  This is now, and has always been, everyone’s home.

So these drawings deal with various parts of all that: life, what’s there as well as what isn’t there, the universe . . . in a word, home.