Mike Lyon

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“Carrie Americana” 80 x 52 inches drawing

June 4, 2014 By Mike Lyon

In January, 2014 my then studio assistant, Carrie Riehl, walked in one morning wearing shorts (in January?) and showing off her new 2nd hand red, white, and blue leather jacket and I said, “let’s go photograph you right now!” In May I generated sixty drawing layers of red, yellow, blue, black, and white squiggles intended to produce a drawing […]

Filed Under: Drawing, Featured

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

April 8, 2014 By Mike Lyon

After Mom died, Dad moved back to Kansas City from Aspen where he’d lived since the late 1970’s. He invited several of his old friends to join him at my studio and then lunch at the vegan restaurant across the street, Cafe Gratitude. Morton Sosland is one of those old friends and joined us at studio […]

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

March 3, 2014 By Mike Lyon

Hal Wert teaches History at Kansas City Art Institute. Hal was Vice President of KCAI in 1988 when students there asked me to teach them karate and self defense. I made an appointment and met Hal (he was wearing a business suit and tie). I asked whether the school would allow me to teach and […]

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more slotted acrylic disks and rings

February 16, 2014 By Mike Lyon

Cutting acrylic disks for assemblage during January and February, 2014

Filed Under: Featured, Sculpture

“3 Robes” 84 x 45 inches watercolors and ink on paper

January 23, 2014 By Mike Lyon

Carrie, Ross, and Johanna in yukata (summer kimono). Here I was playing with black and white ink over intense colors. The colors were pigment dispersions in water – the robe and body colors were brushed onto the paper register with the eventual drawing, then protected with a cut-out mylar mask while the background colors were […]

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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

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

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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.

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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

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