Kelly Lycan received her BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and her MFA from the University of California, Santa Barbara and Los Angeles. She has exhibited in solo and group shows in Canada and the United States, most recently at Gallery TPW in Toronto. She is also a member of Instant Coffee, a service oriented artist collective tat builds social structures, where ideas, material and actions are explored. Instant Coffee has exhibited in Canada, South America, Europe and the United States.
Kelly Lycan and Daniel Olson, in their representation and manipulation of everyday images and objects, explore what we accumulate, how we accumulate it, and why we accumulate and retain the physical and the ephemeral. - Jennifer Matotek, exhibition catalog writer.
Olson’s video Multiple Images Galore uses a screen saver function to show the many images he encounters daily in our image-saturated culture. Lycan’s body of work Junk Drawer considers the everyday items that get thrown in a drawer rather than discarded. Photographic enlargements of these items, from paperclips to unused balloons, are presented on the gallery floor as a sculptural installation....