Texere: the artwork of Candace Hicks by Candace Hicks

Candace Hicks will introduce her current Fulbright project about reproductive healthcare, embroidering the handwritten stories of others. She will discuss how she mines literature for coincidences in her ongoing series of artist books and how she uses storytelling through multimedia installation. She will also explain what the use of textile has meant in her artistic development and how working with textile artists she hopes to introduce the diverse practice to a new generation.

Candace Hicks collects coincidences from the books she reads and gathers them in her artists’ books and installations. Her collections of coincidences are documents that present the world through a particular, specific, sometimes obsessive point of view. She is a professor of art at Stephen F. Austin State University, where she teaches foundational courses in two-dimensional media. The artist books from her Common Threads series are held in over 90 collections worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Boston Athenaeum, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Grolier Club, Harvard, Hungarian Multicultural Center, MIT, MoMA NY, Museum of Applied Arts Vienna, UCLA Biomedical Library, Stanford, and Yale. She has exhibited in Texas, California, and New York, as well as in Beijing, Barcelona, and Córdoba.
http://www.candacehicks.com/books.html