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 — [...]

“Linda” 75 x 45 inch acrylic painting on unprimed canvas

I’ve been working for a couple of weeks now on a couple of long-term fascinations of mine — painting with a limited palette in a grid, and my wife’s beautiful face ! I suppose this latest endeavor was inspired (in part) by the needlepoint stockings my wife and I are making for a niece and [...]

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, [...]

1973 Sculpture Portfolio

1973 Sculpture — final project at KCAI sculpture fall, 1973 to represent 3D work in 2D. I’d majored in sculpture at U of PA, but KCAI department was a shock and I didn’t ‘fit’ well. My instructor said the film was the most interesting work I’d done during the semester and gave me a “C”, [...]