Mike Lyon

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Slotted acrylic disks

January 23, 2014 By Mike Lyon

Used a tiny router bit to CNC clear acrylic sheet into gazillions of two-inch diameter slotted disks. Then began assembling them into … slotted disk constructions?

Filed Under: Lighting, Sculpture

Slotted plywood disk constructions

January 15, 2014 By Mike Lyon

Experimenting with plywood disks, rings, etc slotted at various appropriate-seeming angles for half-lap construction

Filed Under: Featured, Furniture, Sculpture

Grabado Y Edicion No 36: Mokuhanga – Sosaku Hanga

December 1, 2013 By Mike Lyon

g&e Grabado Y Edicion Print and Art Edition Magazine, No. 36, December, 2012 Processes: Mokuhanga Sosaku Hanga: Creative Prints by April Vollmer Sosaku hanga is usually translated as creative prints, and is used to describe Japanese printmakers during the first half of the 20th century who cut and printed their own blocks. Within Japan the […]

Filed Under: Press

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

November 14, 2013 By Mike Lyon

After a three-day karate special training, I asked one of my juniors, Dinh Hoang, if he would model for me. His eyes had ‘that look’ people get after hard practice, and I wanted to show that kind of metaphysical clarity.   Details of completed drawing Details of work in progress

Filed Under: Drawing, Featured

Rebound – 23 x 17 inches – watercolor and ink on paper

November 14, 2013 By Mike Lyon

Small drawing, unusually narrative, colors just a teeny tiny bit saturated.

Filed Under: Drawing, Painting

Team Sukkit for Epsten Gallery and Jewish Museum

September 30, 2013 By Mike Lyon

Summer, 2013, Debbie Kaplan Glassberg recruited me to be “Lead Artist”, Sukkah Kit Team, ARTicipation: Abundance Garden Tasting & Sukkah Tour, The Kansas City Jewish Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS. Debbie Kaplan once approached me with the idea of a kit sukkah and I replied with some simple sketches of plywood or plexi […]

Filed Under: Furniture, Sculpture

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

September 3, 2013 By Mike Lyon

I painted a large sheet of heavy watercolor paper with numerous layers of red, yellow, and blue pigments in water, then drew in black and white ink. I particularly like that one hand is drawn only with black and the other only with white while the interplay of the squiggly ink hatches recreate the illusion […]

Filed Under: Drawing, Featured, Painting

The Bohemian Zine Woodblock Prints and Drawings

July 4, 2013 By Mike Lyon

I was invited to design the covers for the July, 2013 Bohemian zine – four of the staff were kind enough to model for the cover drawing and the editor modeled for the ‘insert print’ which we folded up and saddle stitched inside as the centerfold.

Filed Under: Drawing, Woodblock

Most electricity now comes from my solar array

June 26, 2013 By Mike Lyon

Brightergy did an absolutely incredible job showing me how I could do my part to reduce carbon emissions and help the environment and showed me how affordable that could be – after incentives, about 12 to 18 months break even. Wow! Unfortunately, because half the cost was to be reimbursed by the reluctant Kansas City Power […]

Filed Under: Equipment

Kansas City Star: Dana Self Review

May 28, 2013 By Mike Lyon

The question of how to organize the visual and conceptual data that accrete as a portrait of a person is fundamental to Lyon’s work. While he answers the query technologically, he also answers it psychically. Each portrait coalesces identity into an ambitious exchange between sitter, artist and viewer.

Filed Under: Exhibitions, Press

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