Holland Project Billboard Gallery

Dec 1

I was so excited to be invited to have my artwork on a billboard! Thanks Holland Project, City of Reno Arts & Culture Commission, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Nevada Humanities for making this a possibility.

In 2023, I had another major attack that left me unable to walk without assistance and unable to draw. I started exercising my drawing skills each night, creating Daily Nodes and then finishing them up in Photoshop the next morning. I began to write about my experiences and observations with each Daily Node. The three represented here are from Day 67, 68 and 76. This is what I wrote on Day 67: “Nodes Day 67 (September 29) It’s Friday evening and Anne, Becca and Emsley are in the studio with me. Today was a good reminder that hope is an important concept. It’s hope that keeps me going. And I’m lucky! I have so many people surrounding me that love me and go along with my crazy collaboration projects. Thanks everyone! See you in Fallon soon!”

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