This | Spencer Museum of Art

Candace Hicks, artist

born 1980

This, 2010

Portfolio/Series title: Common Threads

Where object was made: New York, United States

Material/technique: canvas; thread; stitching; embroidering

Dimensions:
Object Height/Width/Depth (Height x Width x Depth): 22.9 x 17.8 x 2.5 cm
Object Height/Width/Depth (Height x Width x Depth): 9 x 7 x 1 in

Credit line: Museum purchase: R. Charles and Mary Margaret Clevenger Art Acquisition Fund

Accession number: 2011.0016

On display: Simons Gallery

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Looking After: Art and Care in Education Across Kansas

This takes the form of an open, used composition book that is hand-stitched onto canvas pages. This work is both textile and textual—artist Candace Hicks embroiders meaning into her books as she stitches doodles, phrases, and designs. This considers the relationship among texts, images, and accumulation of knowledge, while also emphasizing the physical, three-dimensional presence of the book.

Mobile Memory

Texas-based artist Candace Hicks reconstructs the familiar format of the composition notebook in fabric and thread. Hicks uses her handmade versions as repositories for personal notes, ideas, and musings, which often focus on a single word or phrase. In her work “This” from the series “Common Threads,” Hicks stitches together imagery and language from her memories into sequences of seemingly unrelated and stream-of-consciousness thoughts about the word “this.” Select the image above and swipe through the pages of Hicks’s book to follow her whimsical narrative thread.