Artist

Lycan, Kelly

Title

White Out

Technique

acrylic

Date

2014

Dimensions

58.4cm height x 43.2cm width

Type

mixed media

Accession Number

2015.9.1

Collection

Permanent Collection

Kelly Lycan is an installation and photo based artist residing in Vancouver, Canada. She received her Bachelor of Fine Art from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and her Master of Fine Art from the University of California, Santa Barbara and Los Angeles. Lycan’s primary interests are the way objects are placed and displayed in the world and the cycle of value and exchange they go through. Re-purposing and re-contextualizing ordinary things is a consistent part of her practice. Lycan investigates the distinctions between experience and reproduction translating this through sculpture and photography while referencing collections and methods of display found in museums, institutional gift shops, cheap retail stores, or high-end department stores. Lycan reinterprets and reassembles various high and low objects through strategies of exhibition, blurring the distinction between content and style, production and mass-consumption, and originals verses copies. These ideas create composites of vernacular collections, art history, contemporary art and design; paradigms collide revealing similarities, influences and failures. Not only does Lycan address the medium of photography but also the shifting identity between sculpture, painting and photography. Her work has been exhibited in exhibitions across Canada, the US and Europe, including solo presentations at Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, 2014; SFU Gallery, Burnaby, 2014; Or Gallery, Vancouver, 2011 and Gallery TPW, Toronto, 2009. She is a member of Instant Coffee, a service-oriented artist collective who have exhibited in Canada, the US, Europe, South America and Asia. Recent exhibitions include Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, 2014; New Forms Festival, Vancouver, 2014; Incheon Art Platform, Incheon, South Korea, 2013; MKG 127, Toronto, 2013.