Emails with Isaac

Dec 30

Looking back at my old journals, I came across two emails that I had printed and glued into the book. I also wrote on the page with a big green marker, “Revisit Lacan…Mirror: other as other…”

The files after cutting up the photo and manipulating each of the blocks in Photoshop before printing and assembling.

From Isaac at 12:04PM, November 11, 2005 (my second model for Postures and Parts series):

“Oh, I hadn’t realized I made no comment on the nudes. It’s a different feeling being the model for these than it is simply criticizing them from the outside. It’s also difficult when I don’t know the scale. Plus, your work is usually very layered, which doesn’t come across in the digital images.

Did you abandon the one with me on all fours? Just wondering.

My response at 12:31 PM:

“What you have said about the Isaac pieces---I agree. There is a playfulness to them, but also, with the scale and impact of layering and color, they are incredibly imposing. I felt that I was able to capture some of the daring that is ‘Isaac’, unlike the images of John, which to me, feel more objectified, and the images of Ben, which … well I don’t have as clear ‘felling’ yet for his because I’ve only finished one and I’m not that connected to it. I’m doing one piece of the image of you on all fours. The angles and negative space are wonderful. I won’t finish it until the end of December, so it will be one of the last pieces, but will more than likely be the best. It’s got 40 10”x10” pieces to it. I don’t think that it will have a feeling of violation either because although you are on all fours, the angle of the shot is ¾ front facing the viewer. You are not looking at the viewer, though. You are in contemplation. The piece, to me, speaks more about the moment of temptation, the what-if. It’s also very static. I removed all reference to the actual environment, suspending your body in an atmosphere of baby blue which contrasts nicely with your skin. The glazed layers, of course, will change the character a bit, and that process is always the exciting part for me, the emotional traces of my own art-making in the attempt to capture some of your personality.”

Final Piece

I12_18_24
Mixed (digital color photo printed on Epson 2200, walnut oil glazes, resin, screenprint, wood) 2006
In two pieces, to be assembled.

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