Mike Lyon

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Personal Effects at Kemper Museum

March 23, 2012 By Mike Lyon

Personal Effects exhibition at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art March 23–October 12, 2012 This exhibition, drawn from works of art in the Kemper Museum’s permanent collection, explores the portrait and the still life as depictions of objects imbued with both personal meaning and wider cultural iconography. The memory of an activity stilled, a hint that someone […]

Filed Under: Exhibitions, Press Tagged With: 23 October, Art Museum, Exhibition, Kemper Museum Of Contemporary Art, Memory, Museum Of Contemporary Art, Personal Effects, Portraits, Still Life, Still Lifes, Works Of Art

America Now and Here – Kansas City

June 30, 2011 By Mike Lyon

Famous artist Eric Fischl and film-producer Donald Rosenfeld were in Kansas City to select work for the Kansas City Collection and selected my work. At the same time, Eric introduced the idea of America Now and Here and included my “Michael” drawing in the America Now and Here show the following year.

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Daum Museum – Virtual Media: Computer-aided Art from the Collection

June 26, 2010 By Mike Lyon

Daum exhibit shows the computer’s versatile role in modern art June 23, 2010 5:19 PM John Hansen The Sedalia Democrat An artist using a computer to create art is nothing new, yet they are always using it to push boundaries. At the Daum Museum’s “Virtual Media: Computer-aided Art from the Collection,” visitors can marvel at […]

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Drury University: Pool Art Center Gallery Exhibit

March 27, 2010 By Mike Lyon

Rebecca Miller (director of the Pool Art Center Gallery)  and I first met about twenty years ago while she was a student at the Kansas City Art Institute.  I was teaching karate twice a week there and she was one of my better students.  During the several years she practiced with me,  we became good […]

Filed Under: Exhibitions, Featured, Press, Video Tagged With: Art History, Arts Faculty, Camille Dautrich, Drury University, Kansas City Art Institute, Mike Lyon, Pool Art Center Gallery, Rebecca Miller, Springfield Mo, Springfield News Leader

Artist’s works inspired by Japanese prints, mechanics

July 1, 2009 By Mike Lyon

K-State Collegian Published: Wednesday, July 1, 2009 By Hannah Blick The emotion in Mike Lyon’s artwork is inspired by old Japanese prints. The shapes are determined by the contours of the faces of his closest friends, friendly strangers, and the outcome hinges on the mechanics of his latest digital tools. “Figuring it out: Prints and […]

Filed Under: Exhibitions, Press Tagged With: Aesthetics, Beach Museum Of Art, Cattle, Chelsy Leuth, Computerized System, Contours, Curator, Digital Technology, Digital Tools, Drawings, Eastern Traditions, Emotion, Geometric Shapes, Hannah, Hannah Blick, Japanese Print, Japanese Prints, July 1, K-State Collegian, Kansas City, Kansas City Mo, Linda Lyon, Maze, Mechanics, Mike Lyon, Museum Of Art, review, reviews, Squiggles

Road Trip to Beach Museum and Cafe Beautiful

June 21, 2009 By Mike Lyon

Sandy and Christine Kemper of The Collectors Fund organized a select group to make a road trip to see my exhibition at the Beach Museum in Manhattan, Kansas and then dine together at Cafe Beautiful in Lawrence.  We gathered at 1pm at the Collectors Fund offices in Kansas City, boarded our van, and started out […]

Filed Under: Exhibitions, Video Tagged With: Beach Museum, Bill North, Bookshelves, Cafe Beautiful, Champagne, Chef Ken, Chef Ken Sukan, Cherries, Chicken Sandwiches, Christine Kemper, Curator, Delicious Beef, Exhibition, Exhibition Rooms, File Drawers, Fun Fun Fun, Grilled Veggies, Kansas City, Ken Sukan, Lawrence Kansas, Manhattan Kansas, Paper Doll, Paper Paintings, Piles, Proof Sheet, Road Trip, Sandy Kemper, Select Group, Sukan

Figuring it Out at the Beach Musuem of Art

April 16, 2009 By Mike Lyon

Figuring it Out: Mike Lyon Drawings and Prints at the Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan, Kansas opened April 14 and runs through July 19, 2009. Exhibition CATALOG PDF download also see the Beach Museum’s web site blurb from the Beach Museum of Art web site: Figuring it Out: Prints and Drawings by Mike Lyon April […]

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SGC Panel: Printmaking with Extreme Technology

March 27, 2009 By Mike Lyon

Erik Brunvand invited me to join him, Steve Hoskins, and Ed Bateman on a panel during Southern Graphics Council’s Chicago convention  called Printmaking with Extreme Technology. Each of us spoke for approximately 15 minutes. Printmaking with Extreme Technology (Erik Brunvand, Chair with Edward Bateman, Stephen Hoskins, and Mike Lyon) 10-11:30am Friday, March 27 at Columbia […]

Filed Under: Exhibitions, Featured Tagged With: Bristol Uk, Ceramic Powders, Chicago Convention, Columbia College, Ed Bateman, Erik Brunvand, Extreme Technology, Image Sizes, Micrometers, Mike Lyon, Modeling Tools, Painter Printmakers, Printmaking Techniques, Rapid Prototyping, Room 109, Silicon Chips, Southern Graphics Council, Steve Hoskins, University Of The West Of England, Wabash Ave

Backstage Pass opened at Kemper Museum

September 8, 2007 By Mike Lyon

Last night, Linda and I had a ball at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art here in Kansas City. It was the opening of their new show, Backstage Pass: Collecting Art in Kansas City which runs September 7–November 4, 2007. By pairing artworks from area private collections with examples by the same artists represented in […]

Filed Under: Drawing, Exhibitions, Video Tagged With: American Artists, Andy Warhol, Christopher Cook, Collecting Art, Deborah Butterfield, Duane Hanson, Exhibition Catalog, Frank Stella, Helen Frankenthaler, Joan Mitchell, Kemper Museum, Lezley Saar, Mike Lyon, Museum Of Contemporary Art, Private Collections, Richard Estes, Willem De Kooning

Mike Lyon: Large Scale Drawings and Woodblock Prints

September 3, 2006 By Mike Lyon

An exhibition of my recent work titled: “Mike Lyon: Large Scale Drawings and Woodblock Prints” runs September 1, through October 21, 2006 at Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, 2004 Baltimore, Kansas City, Missouri. Opening: 7-9 pm First Friday, September 1, 2006, hours 11-5 Tue through Saturday, 816-221=2626. Here’s the gallery’s mailer (folds are in the mailer, […]

Filed Under: Exhibitions, Featured, Video Tagged With: Babu, Darks, Faculty Member, Guggenheim Fellowship, Kansas City Missouri, KCAI, Leedy, Mike Lyon, Moku-Hanga, Painting Instructor, Scale Drawings, Seth Mnookin, Woodblock Print, Woodblock Prints, Woodcut

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