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...)

Reinventing the Line: Post-Digital Artworks by Mike Lyon

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

What if Christ died of natural causes?

Kelsey

Leone and Megan

Wow Mom and other textual drawings

The code that moves the pen makes the image…

First textual drawings

Hanging Lamps

Several large watery landscape drawings output as archival prints

“Sniffing Armpit” 40 x 27 inches machine drawing & archival print

“Carrie Americana” 80 x 52 inches drawing

“Estelle and Morton” 52 x 74.5 inches drawing in 5 ink colors on panel

“Hal” 31.25 x 22.75 inches pen and ink drawing in five colors
