Mike Lyon

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at Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art March 2013

Artist’s Statement

Until the early 1990's I practiced the eye-hand coordination required to draw and paint visually (paint what you see). Then I became intensely curious about how image was communicated through the marks I made. I began employing automated procedures and, eventually, electromechanical tools, many of my own design and construction. I continue to be fascinated by marks and mark-making, pattern, aesthetics, the past, and the location of meaning. My recent work is typically produced using traditional tools manipulated by non-traditional means. I’ve designed and built numerous computer-controlled jigs which hold pencils, pens, brushes, airbrushes, flow-pens, etc all moved and actuated via tens of millions of lines of instructions which are generated by computer programs I’ve … (read more...)

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Personal Best at Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

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Exhibition: Gallery at Foundry Vineyards

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Exhibition: Global Dimensions

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“Madz” mokuhanga 31 x 22 inches

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Exhibition: The International Block Print Renaissance Then and Now: A Centennial Celebration of Block Prints in Wichita, Kansas, 1922-2022

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Exhibition: Mike Lyon: String Theory

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untitled (self portrait) 35 x 35 inches acrylic on canvas

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Linda – acrylic on canvas – 35 x 35 inches

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Linda in Black (mokuhanga) 41 x 29.5 inches

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untitled (four self-portrait variations ) 36 x 153 inches )

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Linda in Black – painting – 42 x 30 inches

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Untitled self portrait: edition of 17 drawings

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“Elena” life size pen and ink drawing

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Small drawings with square spirals

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Large drawing (Hal) with nested squares

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32 Small drawings with characters

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Two small woodcuts using a wedged registration jig

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Secret Garden (clover woodcut)

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Exhibition: The XYZs of Post-Digital Gesture: Drawings & Prints by Mike Lyon

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Kelsey

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Sinjun drawing 50 x 34 inches

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Leone and Megan

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Wow Mom and other textual drawings

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The code that moves the pen makes the image…

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