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” [...]

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, [...]

Mother and Child

This is a print I produced for Baren Forum’s 14th Exchange. This version included an additional block carved from oak which I used to print the ‘wood grain’ in the background. The print is o-ban (large size — about 15 inches high) on hand made, unsized gampi paper.
This is a reduction print, printed by hand [...]

It’s a Dog’s Day

This print is representative of the edition of 31 produced for the Baren print Exchange #7 in October, 2000. Exchange #7 called for a chuban sized print in the theme of “The Comedy of Life”. You can visit the Baren site on the web. This print was intended to be somewhat comical. The fun, surprising, [...]

Do it your self portrait

Produced for a Hand Print Press print exchange (and summarily rejected SO unfairly by the short-lived curatorial committee) the text reads:
Use a razor knife and straight edge to cut out the colored squares along the black lines. Paste 143 yellow squares over the 143 ‘M’s, 160 magenta squares over 160 ‘I’s, 186 red squares [...]