The College of Southern Nevada, School of Arts & Letters, and Department of Fine Arts will host an exhibition in media ranging from printmaking to ceramics, sculpture to drawing, and painting to installation by Northern Nevada artist and Truckee Meadows Community College Professor of Art,  Candace Garlock. Candace Garlock: Shadows and Sunshine, Living in the Land of Multiple Sclerosis opens Friday, February 21, 2025, and runs through Saturday, April 26, 2025, in the Fine Arts Gallery on the North Las Vegas Campus of the College of Southern Nevada. A special Artist Talk and Reception, with refreshments, will take place on Thursday, April 3, 2025, at 6:00 pm.

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. Garlock writes, “My multilayered compositions posit engaging questions to viewers regarding relationships, social identities, and societal issues surrounding the female gaze.”

A renowned printmaker whose work has been shown nationally and internationally, Garlock 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, and the Nevada Arts Council Artist Fellowship in 2009 Garlock’s 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.

Speaking of her work, Garlock states, “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, 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, and 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 play between the nervous system and immune system, beginning to find beauty within the acceptance of pain.”

The CSN Fine Arts Gallery is free, family-friendly, and open to the public. Gallery hours are from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. The Fine Arts Gallery is located adjacent to the Nicholas J. Horn Theatre Lobby on the North Las Vegas campus located at 3200 E. Cheyenne Avenue, one mile East of I-15 North.

For more information, please call (702) 651-4146
http://www.csn.edu/artgallery