Contributing Historian
Belkin Art Gallery
Vancouver, B.C., Canada, 2009
Briana Lyon published a variety of opinion pieces on current events in art and feature pieces on local art exhibitions and installations as acting Art Director for the small art press and music label Onecoolword Magazine (now OCW Magazine) and local contemporary artist and art historian in residence at East Vancouver artist collective.
Briana Lyon published a variety of opinion pieces on current events in art and feature pieces on local art exhibitions and installations as acting Art Director for the small art press and music label Onecoolword Magazine (now OCW Magazine) and local contemporary artist and art historian in residence at East Vancouver artist collective.
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Cover piece, Pretty Piece of Flesh.
"Sensous, exact and socially deconstructive these paintings discharge passion and distinction from pornography to create a space for alternative, sex-positive thinking... Are any of these artworks about literal sex? They may be crafted from pornographic magazines but there are no physical bodies or sensual details to entice us. The collages of genitals are earnestly repetitive and demonstrate how "sex loses all its power and magic when it becomes explicit, mechanical overdone." What these artworks are doing is commenting on the concept of sex in our world. They are alternative-sex-inclusive images. By utilizing base imagery familiar to the vast majority of people, the artist opens up the arena of fine art, inviting even the most common and sordid of folks to find something decipherable in the work. The sex carnival surface is a veneer to seduce the everyday into a critical space, to question the norm and normalize the degraded...Allan-McCachen's artworks dismantle the products of misogyny and assemble a sage, experimental margin...by removing [body parts] from their context the artist is extracting what makes [pornography] so harmful: ideology. When there is no face, physical orientation, or human emotion depicted, there is no opportunity for the viewer to judge a character, origin or idea. It is discomforting to be alone with associations, dislikes and denials with no moral point of reference; the viewer is forced to identify their own direction and come up with their own answers..." |
Contributing Editor
One Cool Word Magazine
Vancouver 2008-2010
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OneCoolWord magazine was an exceptional independent press publishing independent music, emerging art, poetry and other forms of experimental writing in Vancouver, British Columbia. Each of the 4 seasonal publications included a CD of new music, along with it's visually stimulating artwork and innovative creative writing. |
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Articles by: Briana Lyon
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On the political implications of grants & Olympic art project payouts in early 2000s Vancouver...
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On Experimental & Installation ArtDigs on yarn bombing, meat industry art installations & body modification (flesh suspension) as emerging art forms.
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