Artist’s works inspired by Japanese prints, mechanics

K-State Collegian
Published: Wednesday, July 1, 2009
By Hannah Blick
The emotion in Mike Lyon’s artwork is inspired by old Japanese prints. The shapes are determined by the contours of the faces of his closest friends, friendly strangers, and the outcome hinges on the mechanics of his latest digital tools.
“Figuring it out: Prints and drawings by Mike Lyon” [...]

Road Trip to Beach Museum and Cafe Beautiful

Sandy and Christine Kemper of The Collectors Fund organized a select group to make a road trip to see my exhibition at the Beach Museum in Manhattan, Kansas and then dine together at Cafe Beautiful in Lawrence.  We gathered at 1pm at the Collectors Fund offices in Kansas City, boarded our van, and started out [...]

Figuring it Out at the Beach Musuem of Art

Figuring it Out: Mike Lyon Drawings and Prints at the Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan, Kansas opened April 14 and runs through July 19, 2009. Exhibition CATALOG PDF download also see the Beach Museum’s web site blurb

from the Beach Museum of Art web site:
Figuring it Out: Prints and Drawings by Mike Lyon
April 14, 2009 — [...]

SGC Panel: Printmaking with Extreme Technology

Erik Brunvand invited me to join him, Steve Hoskins, and Ed Bateman on a panel during Southern Graphics Council’s Chicago convention  called Printmaking with Extreme Technology. Each of us spoke for approximately 15 minutes.
Printmaking with Extreme Technology (Erik Brunvand, Chair with Edward Bateman, Stephen Hoskins, and Mike Lyon) 10-11:30am Friday, March 27 at Columbia College, [...]

Backstage Pass opened at Kemper Museum

Last night, Linda and I had a ball at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art here in Kansas City. It was the opening of their new show, Backstage Pass: Collecting Art in Kansas City which runs September 7–November 4, 2007.

By pairing artworks from area private collections with examples by the same artists represented in [...]

Mike Lyon: Large Scale Drawings and Woodblock Prints

An exhibition of my recent work titled: “Mike Lyon: Large Scale Drawings and Woodblock Prints” runs September 1, through October 21, 2006 at Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, 2004 Baltimore, Kansas City, Missouri. Opening: 7-9 pm First Friday, September 1, 2006, hours 11-5 Tue through Saturday, 816-221=2626. Here’s the gallery’s mailer (folds are in the mailer, [...]

Framed prints and drawings arrived today…

What a wonderful surprise when John O’Brien called from Dolphin Gallery to let me know that the framing of five of my new (large) works were done — Justin and Greg came by a short while later to deliver the things and here they are all wrapped up in their milky protective plastic wrapping and [...]

McNeese National Works On Paper Exhibition

The McNeese National Works On Paper exhibition of 40 prints was selected by juror Annette DiMeo Carlozzi from over 800 entries. My 30 x 21 inch woodblock print “Anthony” received the “Bank One Purchase Award” of $1,200, entered the permanent collection of McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and was reproduced on the cover [...]