EXHIBITION (Solo): University of British Columbia Student Union Gallery
November 21-28, 2006
"Mother of All Sins / Fantastic Sweetness"
This week-long exhibition featured a collection of 28 large, individual ART works by Briana Lyon. More than two thirds of these paintings were completed during a one year TIME period from October 2005 to November 2006. At the age of 20, Lyon had moved ALONE to Vancouver, Canada from her lifelong home in Southern California.
Lyon was very motivated to CREATE art. She was a full-time student in a rigorous academic liberal arts PROGRAM entitled Religion, Literature and the Arts and had recently sold a large PAINTING for the first time. The sale occurred at the Los Angeles County Fair's Millard Sheets Gallery for the Arts just as Lyon left the UNITED States. A poor college student, but deeply inspired by the new cultural and political SETTING of Western Canada, she scrawled out acrylic paintings on any materials she could find; favoring cardboard.
There were two significant cultural shifts Lyon was fascinated by: increased sexual EQUALITY and environmental awareness. Canada is rated as a top ten country for gender equality, while the United States is ranked in the thirties. The vapid INFLUENCE of Hollywood and the porn industry on Lyon's images of women became very apparent and a constant subject of her work. British Columbia's liberal West coast is also a hotbed of eco-progressive and localization TRENDS. It became an inherent part of the artist's life to consider SUSTAINABILITY in all matters.
This week-long exhibition featured a collection of 28 large, individual ART works by Briana Lyon. More than two thirds of these paintings were completed during a one year TIME period from October 2005 to November 2006. At the age of 20, Lyon had moved ALONE to Vancouver, Canada from her lifelong home in Southern California.
Lyon was very motivated to CREATE art. She was a full-time student in a rigorous academic liberal arts PROGRAM entitled Religion, Literature and the Arts and had recently sold a large PAINTING for the first time. The sale occurred at the Los Angeles County Fair's Millard Sheets Gallery for the Arts just as Lyon left the UNITED States. A poor college student, but deeply inspired by the new cultural and political SETTING of Western Canada, she scrawled out acrylic paintings on any materials she could find; favoring cardboard.
There were two significant cultural shifts Lyon was fascinated by: increased sexual EQUALITY and environmental awareness. Canada is rated as a top ten country for gender equality, while the United States is ranked in the thirties. The vapid INFLUENCE of Hollywood and the porn industry on Lyon's images of women became very apparent and a constant subject of her work. British Columbia's liberal West coast is also a hotbed of eco-progressive and localization TRENDS. It became an inherent part of the artist's life to consider SUSTAINABILITY in all matters.
MOTHER OF ALL SINS / FANTASTIC SWEETNESS
Vancouver, Canada
2005 - 2006
EXHIBITIONS
2005 - 2015
SOLO EXHIBITION & SILENT AUCTION: Walnut Canyon Residence
Walnut, California, U.S.A.
September 8, 2008
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"Walnut Canyon Silent Auction"
This one-night-only exhibition was held in a private residence and attended by several dozen friends and fans. A variety of Briana Lyon's drawings and paintings were shown in three separate rooms. More than half of the 70 pieces displayed were sold. These works were a collection of both accomplished and amateur creations. The largest and most distinguished pieces were interpretive oceanscapes of Southern California. While others were expressive pieces, academic experiments and miniature landscapes from the end of her time in Vancouver. Briana Lyon completed her undergraduate studies in Canada in January of 2008 and then travelled California. She also visited Colorado and central British Columbia, occasionally completing small en plein air landscapes as she went. She coordinated and hosted the Walnut Canyon Silent Auction in September of 2008 as a fundraiser for her move to central, rural British Columbia from Los Angeles. |
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