Adding to my personal collection

Dec 1

Yesterday I decided to install some work from my own personal collection. The first was Eunkang Koh’s little print that I had purchased earlier in the fall. My husband actually totally fell in love with this piece and it was super exciting to see him to taken with an art piece. It made him smile and I love that!

Eunkang Koh Art — Eunkang Koh came by yesterday for lunch and to drop off the print that I purchased.
I have known Eunkang since grad school and we have been in many print exchanges together. I feel blessed to now own “Lime Squeeze Boogi Woopi” Edition 2/5 2021

The second art piece I had purchased from BobbieAnn Howell when I went to her art reception “Pollinators” in Las Vegas in October. She creates beautiful paper cuts by hand…no Cricut cutter for this artist. She colors the stencils with a variety of materials depending on image.
This piece is titled “Birds on the Water” and is 8”x10” framed, cut paper, colored pencil.

This 12”x12” painting is from Rossitza Todorova. Rossi was a student of mine in printmaking and she later became a good friend that I would visit in Phoenix, AZ early March for years until she came back to Reno. We are now colleagues at TMCC. We traded artwork a few years back and I am not hanging this piece in my kitchen/dining area along with BobbieAnn’s piece and Eunkang Kohs piece.

I have two little paintings from Emily Reid that I installed in the dining room. It’s a little chucklesome because they are below 3 Jackalope Taxidermy pieces that my husband purchased at various gun shows. I had purchased these at Nevada Fine Arts during their Christmas Sale in 2020..yes during the pandemic.

Candace Garlock

As an artist, Candace Nicol Garlock uses an array of mediums in her work. The coalescence of printmaking techniques, painting, photography (and sculpture, too!) overlap and converge with color, texture and line in a collaboration of mixed, experimental beauty. With her appreciation of the interconnectedness of everything, she elevates relationships: human and environment, human and animal, human and human. She writes, “my multilayered compositions posit engaging questions to viewers regarding relationships, social identities, and societal issues surrounding the female gaze.”

Garlock's mentorship in student advancement, both artistically and professionally, as well as her engagement and participation in community events makes her a true ambassador of art. She draws inspiration from the collaboration of those around her, through the interplay with students, and continually is organizing collaborative projects. A renown printmaker whose work has been shown nationally and internationally, she has received multiple awards including the Reno Tahoe Artist Best in Sculpture/3-D Artworks in 2022, Best of Show and Best in 2D Mixed Media in 2023 and Best in 2-D Artworks in 2024, the Nevada Regents’ Creative Activity Award in 2017, the Nevada Arts Council Artist Fellowship in 2009 and an honorable mention in Printmaking Today in 2008, a review of fine art printmaking in Abruzzo, Italy. Nicol’s work can also be seen in 100 Artists of the Male Figure by E.Gibbons. Her work is included in many prestigious collections including the Kinsey Institute, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, Nevada Arts Council, and National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts.

https://candacenicolgarlock.com