Sourcing personal memories for fine art always carries its own danger. How might the artist transform instances from her individual narrative into something that transcends timelines, that resonates with people who don't share those memories? There's a reason we don't consider snapshots themselves to be art. They mean little to those who don't recognize the people and the moments captured within. But translate those snapshots to a vastly different medium from film or digital images and suddenly they're curiosities worthy of a more general attention.

Nike Schroeder works with thread. She painstakingly embroiders images onto different colored canvases, recreating the impromptu photos she takes of her friends at parties. In one sense, they're portraits of the people whose likenesses she captures with her needle. In another, they have very little to do with the individuals whose presence originally inspired the photographs. They're a copy of a copy of a person, with most of the detail left behind in favor of textured shapes.