Kelly Lycan
Education:
BFA, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
MFA, University of California, Santa Barbara and Los Angeles
Bio
Kelly Lycan is a photo-based installation artist based on the traditional unceded territories of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, and Musqueam Nations. Kelly investigates how objects and images are placed and displayed in the world and the cycle of value they experience. She has taught at ECU since 2013 and is a sessional lecturer at the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University. Her work has been exhibited across Canada, the US, Europe, and the Middle East.
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Research Interests
Re-purposing and re-contextualizing ordinary things is a consistent part of her practice. Kelly 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. She 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 versus copies. These ideas create composites of vernacular collections, art history, contemporary art and design: paradigms collide, revealing similarities, influences and failures. Not only does she address the medium of photography, but also the shifting identity between sculpture, painting and photography.
