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Candace Nicol - Gallery Candace Nicol is an artist and printmaking instructor at Truckee Meadows Community College, Reno, NV. Candace received her Master of Fine Arts degree from Boise State University. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is part of permanent collections including Boise Art Museum, Corcoran College of Art and Design, Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper at Rutgers University, Southern Graphics Council Archives, University of Sharjah in Dubai, U.A.E., and Orfali Gallery in Amman, Jordan. Recent solo exhibitions include Hemingway Gallery in Boise, ID; John Ben Snow Memorial Trust Gallery in Reno, NV; FireHouse Gallery in Grants Pass, OR, and Red Mountain Gallery in Reno, NV. Her current work includes multi-layered etchings/aquatints and large-scale digital paintings that address societal issues surrounding the female gaze, relationships and sexual identities. |
Statement for Social Utterances My work suggests that I am acting as a visual interrogator. I photograph the mundane, the everyday, and through printmaking and collage, I re-interpret those images by juxtaposing them with bits of visual culture taken from the internet. The result hints at disruptions in the social norm, especially bringing attention to gendered exchanges. I am in the process of creating a body of work combining the following techniques: 4-color aquatint etchings, polyester plate lithographs, and digital chine collé. The arrangement of prints suggests separate pictorial narratives that seduce the viewer to unravel each story. The overall project reveals serial duplications of mass culture, repetitive patterns of life, routines, habitual deja-vu, and memory of some unbearable pain. |
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