Mike Lyon

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Dad and Linda: first small AxiDraw drawings

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The AxiDraw is a simple, precise, and versatile pen plotter, capable of writing or drawing on almost any flat surface. It can write with fountain pens, permanent markers, and many other writing implements to handle an endless variety of applications. Its unique design features a writing head that extends beyond the machine, making it possible […]

The Precision of the Mokuhanga Art Form

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The Daily Gazette: When Credibility MattersJanuary 4, 2018Schenectady On Exhibit: The precision of the mokuhanga art form New at Crowell and West Galleries at Union CollegeBy Indiana Nash | January 4, 2018 The exhibition, which went up on Jan. 3 at the Crowell and West Galleries at Union College, delves into the traditional Japanese woodblock […]

Mokuhanga: Impressions Past and Present

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Curated by Sandy Wimer and Sheri Lullo January 3 – March 13, 2018 Feigenbaum Center for Visual ArtsCrowell and West GalleriesUnion College Mokuhanga: Impressions Past and Present Mokuhanga refers to the traditional Japanese technique of hand-printing images from carved blocks of wood. Moku means “wood,” and hanga which is a combination of the words for […]

IMC Hawaii Presentation

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My presentation to the International Mokuhanga Association Conference at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu September 28, Thursday – October 1, Sunday, 2017. Keynote presentations by Mayumi Oda (artist), Seiichi Kondo (former ambassador), and Richard Notkin (artist) can be viewed at 2017.mokuhanga.org/keynotes/

Two small woodcuts using a wedged registration jig

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Many mokuhanga (Japanese technique woodcut) printers are using an L-shaped kento registration jig. This is so each block can be carved without registration kento and a corner pushed into the L-shaped jig during printing. One disadvantage of this method is that the block and jig can easily shift during handling and printing so registration is […]

Secret Garden (clover woodcut)

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“Secret Garden” is a view of clover near my Kansas City home, shot with my iPhone while walking Daisy, our dog. I still have this unreasonable urge to print more and more intensely complex images, but these dozen blocks, though not huge, took an average of around 20 hours each to carve (the longest carving […]

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

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242 S. Santa Fe Salina, KS, 67401 785.827.1431 info@salinaartcenter.org Salinaartcenter.org Exhibition walk-through The XYZs of Post-Digital Gesture: Drawings & Prints by Mike Lyon January 18 – April 16, 2017 Mike Lyon’s work is not digital art. Lyon is a pioneering figure in the emergent field of post-digital printmaking and graphics. [The first major study of […]

Kansas City artist combines traditional art with digital technology

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from Salina Journal, Feb 3, 2017 Don’t call Mike Lyon a digital artist. Although the Kansas City, Mo.-based artist does work with traditional art materials and techniques of printmaking and graphic design, he has developed a way to create original work through the use of automated machine tools and digital technology from the realm of […]

What if Christ died of natural causes?

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Having considered the act of creation through coding various processes to draw and paint, then documenting my code in my own image (see The code that moves the pen makes the image…), I’d been thinking about the use of religion as a tool of subjugation throughout history and bible-quoting conservative preachers, the Crusades, the Spanish […]

Allyson 46 x 25

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Drawing designed in 60 layers of colored ink lines but output via large format pigment printer rather than pen and ink.