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LAYERS OF RE-ITERATION An exhibition and book dedicated to the memories of Nevadan artists Galen Brown and Jim McCormick. Curated by Candace Garlock and Frances Melhop The connections we forge with fellow artists often transcend mere friendship, evolving into collaborative legacies that shape our personal and shared creative journeys. This sentiment resonates deeply with our experiences alongside Nevadan artists; Galen Brown and Jim McCormick, two remarkable figures whose lives, philosophies, humor and artistry have left an indelible mark on our community. In this exhibition, we invited artists from the Printmakers' Conspiracy group to reflect on the works of Galen and Jim, creating their own pieces inspired by their memories of these two influential figures. PRINTMAKER'S CONSPIRACY PARTICIPATING ARTISTS: Galen Brown Jim McCormick Anne M. Hoff Bobbie Ann Howell Candace Garlock Carole-Ann Ricketts Carol Brown Frances Melhop Lynn Schmidt Nolan Preece Rachel Stiff The Printmakers' Conspiracy group, established in 2006, is a collective of printmakers from Nevada dedicated to broadening the audience for fine art printmaking. Their mission is to enhance public understanding of both traditional and contemporary techniques through shared knowledge, exhibitions and educational initiatives. Artists in this group practice a diverse array of fine art printmaking methods, including lithography, intaglio, relief, photography, monotype, collage and hybrid assemblages. Current and former members of Printmakers' Conspiracy still find inspiration in Jim and Galen's dedication to their craft and their unwavering commitment to the community. Both men exemplified integrity in their artistic practices, earning respect not only for their technical proficiency,

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CHRIS LANIER Writer ""Neither McCormick or Brown can be pigeonholed as ""landscape artists"" - it limits how the work can be interpreted, and it also ignores large swaths of work they produced over their lifetimes. But it is fair to say a sense of the Western landscape can be felt through much of their work - and I think that comment can be extended to the work of the artists in conversation with them for this show. Collectively, they're all engaged in the activity of place-making. If I can get a bit idiosyncratic in my definitions, it seems to me that a ""location"" can be encountered solitarily, and can even exist without any human presence at all - but for a location to become a ""place,"" it requires a multiplicity of experience and vision. It requires parallax and triangulation, comparing one vantage point against another to judge distance, and to relate things to one another in space and time. Place-making is a collective act - it's only together (and in collaboration with the land and elements) that we can begin to sort out our environment - to understand its dimensions, its punctuations, its debris. Place and community make each other. This show isn't just a catalog of influences and echoes - it's both action and evidence of a community of vision."" RACHEL STIFF Professor of Fine Art, Western Nevada College ""This exhibition reflects a shared, kindred relationship to the Nevada landscape, understood as both a physical environment and a visual construct shaped through memory and making. It was an honor to show work alongside artists who share an impulse, central to Jim McCormick and Galen Brown, to picture the land as a way of understanding our connection to it."" THEO MCCORMICK Son of Jim McCormick ""The show was a wonderful example of the diversity and connection among a group of artists."" QUEST LAKES Director

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Frances Melhop is a visual artist, curator and gallery director, born in Christchurch, New Zealand, living and working at Lake Tahoe, Nevada.Melhop works in tactile mediums such as photography, printmaking, hand embroidery, sculpture and oil paint exploring the tensions between the virtual and physical ways we experience the world. Her focus is on human presence and absence in our screen and material lives, reveling in imperfection and evidence of the human hand.Melhop has had solo exhibitions in USA, Switzerland, Japan, Australia, Italy, and the UK, and she has exhibited at notable institutions such as such as Autry Museum (Los Angeles, CA), Brownsville Museum (Brownsville, TX), Cincinnati Art Museum, (Cincinnati, OH), Murray State University, (Murray, KY), Gertrude Herbert Institute, (Augusta, GA), and Arizona State University, (Phoenix, AZ), and the University of Nevada, Reno. She has exhibited collaborative works with Susan Norrie at Nancy Hoffman Gallery (New York, NY) and the NSW Museum of Art, (Sydney, Australia).Awards include, Nevada Arts Council Fellowship 2025, University of Nevada, Reno, Outstanding Artist Award, 2019, NNDA Innovator of the Year 2014, Luerzers Archive World's Best Photographers 2009/2010.In 2020 as founder, curator and artist, she opened Melhop Gallery °7077, at Lake Tahoe, Nevada, representing 12 national and international artists. She also curates themed group shows with other invited exceptional artists. For the last 6 years she also taught in the art departments of University of Nevada, Reno, Western Nevada College, Truckee Meadows Community College and Lake Tahoe Community College.Melhop spent her early career as an acclaimed editorial fashion photographer based out of Sydney, Australia, and Milan, Italy. She made narrative fairytale photographic stories of women for women. Her work appeared in Vogue Australia, Vogue Italia editions, Vogue Pelle and Vogue Gioielli, Elle Portugal, Gioia Italy, Casamica, and Marie Claire Italy.She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Photography and Art History, a Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Art from University of Nevada, Reno, and a post graduate CAS in Curatorial Practices from Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland.

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