at Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art March 1 – April 27, 2013

Download Mike Lyon Press Release from Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art  (PDF) Mike Lyon: Post-Digital Prints and Drawings March 1 – April 27, 2013 “Until the early 1990′s I was all about 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 [...]

A brief ‘break’ to make a table

Several months ago, I promised my daughter, Allegra (Leggie, Legs, Lulu), I’d make a dining table for her apartment in Boulder… As she’s coming home for Thanksgiving, my wife has insisted that I postpone additional work on the big press to complete Leggie’s table… Mark Sfirri and I were roommates while we were teaching at [...]

Checker Stools

I spent three weeks in the fall of 1998 at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, Colorado adding to my traditional moku-hanga and other water based print making skills with Hiroki Morinoue and Allen Smith. An artist in residence there, Ulrika Scriba from Gengenbach, Germany, was especially interested in the several booklets I had authored [...]

The Fisherman and his Wife

This was  my first ‘traditional’ multi-block Japanese woodblock print.  It was made during a two week workshop taught by Hiroki Morinoue at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, Colorado.  That was a life-changing experience — VERY stimulating — and launched me into a whole new world of moku-hanga (traditional Japanese woodblock printmaking)!  WOW!  Total immersion [...]

1996 woodcuts

Early in 1996, for reasons I still don’t understand, really, I became fascinated by Japanese woodblock printmaking technique.  In January, I registered for a two week long workshop to be taught by Hiroke Morinoue at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, Colorado — but I was waitlisted and didn’t know until shortly before the workshop [...]