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...)

Mike Lyon: String Theory

“Elena” life size pen and ink drawing

Small drawings with square spirals

Large drawing (Hal) with nested squares

32 Small drawings with characters

Two small woodcuts using a wedged registration jig

Secret Garden (clover woodcut)

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

Kelsey

Sinjun drawing 50 x 34 inches

Leone and Megan

Wow Mom and other textual drawings

The code that moves the pen makes the image…

Hanging Lamps

“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

more slotted acrylic disks and rings

Slotted plywood disk constructions

Dinh – 30 x 22 inches – pen and ink drawing in five colors

Carrie Robe – watercolors and inks on paper 77 x 44 inches

Jill – 88 x 44 inches ink drawing and watercolor painting
