Daily Nodes
Candace Garlock, in front of the exhibition Daily Nodes
On display February 1 – March 27, 2024
Nevada Humanities Program Gallery
1017 South 1st Street, #190, Las Vegas
Daily Nodes, a new exhibition featuring the work of Nevada artist Candace Garlock, is on display February 1 - March 27, 2024, at the Nevada Humanities Program Gallery in Las Vegas. Garlock explores the metaphor of nodes as points of connection in her daily art journaling. In this exhibition, she records her healing process from multiple sclerosis, which has left her with ongoing, debilitating symptoms. The daily illustrations and writing included in this exhibition are a part of Garlock’s physical and mental healing processes.
The exhibition is open to the public for viewing by appointment only Tuesdays through Fridays from 1 to 4 pm and until 9 pm the first Friday of the month for First Friday events. Contact Bobbie Ann Howell at bahowell@nevadahumanities.org or 702-800-4670 to make a viewing appointment.
Artist Talk and Reception
Friday, February 9, 2024 | 5:00 to 8:00 pm PT, Artist Talk at 6:00 pm PT
Nevada Humanities Program Gallery
Watch a Recording of the Artist Talk here.
Book Purchase here.
View all of the pieces in the Daily Nodes exhibition here.
Candace Garlock Artist Bio
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, and to the developing artist. She draws inspiration from the collaboration of those around her, through the interplay with students, and has several ongoing projects. Garlock is a member of Southern Graphics Council International and is a board member for Rocky Mountain Print Alliance and Tuscarora Pottery School. A renowned 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 and Finalist in Fine Art and Digital Media in 2022, the Nevada Arts Council Artist Fellowship in 2009 and an honorable mention in Printmaking Today, a review of fine art printmaking in Abruzzo, Italy. Her work can also be seen in 100 Artists of the Male Figure by E.Gibbons.
Artist Statement
There is a beauty—a vulnerability—within each of us. Finding that beauty beneath the suffering of living with chronic illness is the focus of this particular body of work. Susan Sontag, in Illness as a Metaphor, wrote, “Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship in the kingdom of the well and the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.” I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2011, after many years of unexplained symptoms like dizziness, brain fog, memory loss, spasms and tightness in limbs, trouble walking. The road to 2011 was a tough one and most of the time I suffered in silence, thinking it was just psychological and I would wake up one day and it would all be gone. In the years after diagnosis, I began to research chronic illnesses and how they are often marginalized, contested and unrecognized in society. In this work, I explore the vulnerability of this autoimmune disease and the interconnectedness between the nervous system and immune system, beginning to find beauty within the acceptance of pain.
