May 26, 2023 - January 2, 2024

Philadelphia artist Nicole Nikolich AKA @lace_in_the_moon, taught herself how to crochet and she “found that crochet combined her love of texture with her love of color in a beautifully amorphic way.” Her career originally began as a street artist installing her creations throughout the city—tied to fences, applied to walls, placed on boarded up windows, and temporary barricades.

Nikolich’s imagery is familiar and approachable. Her highly stylized subjects include rainbows; flowers; fruits; everyday foods like hot dogs, pizza, and eggs; often combined with crocheted letter forms to provide context—mostly messages of positivity. Overtime, her installations grew larger, more colorful, and now, she creates “mural-sized installations.”

In Memory Glitch, Nikolich recalls growing up with the invention of the World Wide Web that popularized the internet. She wrote, “I explored friendships, sexuality, socialization…I often think back to these early internet times with fond nostalgia…” However, through recent psychotherapy sessions, Nikolich realized that she “…skewed memories surrounding growing up…I have found that I have glamorized this simpler, easier time, when in reality, I was actually struggling exponentially and therefore used the internet as an escape.”

Presented here, are crocheted icons that represent Nikolich’s younger years browsing and searching the web including the recycling bin that “subtly suggests these will all be discarded eventually.”

Visit www.laceinthemoon.com.