Mike Lyon

Painting Drawing Printmaking Japanese Woodblock Printing Furniture Lighting

Exhibition: Global Dimensions

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Foundry VineyardsMokuhanga Project Space InvitationalMay 5 – July 30, 2023Walla Walla, Washington ABOUT THE SHOW This show brings together ten international artists selected by the Mokuhanga Project Space. The featured artists are veterans in the medium of mokuhanga. Mokuhanga is a traditional form of Japanese printmaking. ‘Moku’ translates to wood, and ‘hanga’ means printed. The […]

“Madz” mokuhanga 31 x 22 inches

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Portrait of the artist Madeline Cass. Madeline was my studio assistant 2012-2013. “Madz” is another in a series of images composed of code-generated spirals whose number of wraps is related to the average value (lightness/darkness) of a corresponding area in a reference image. I wrote the initial version of the current state of my code […]

Exhibition: The International Block Print Renaissance Then and Now: A Centennial Celebration of Block Prints in Wichita, Kansas, 1922-2022

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February 26 – August 7, 2022 Paul Ross GalleryScott and Carol Ritchie Gallery About This Exhibition The International Block Print Renaissance began in the last decades of the 19th century in Europe, as artists and collectors rediscovered the block print medium. Wichita played a major role in expanding this renaissance throughout America. In 1922, the […]

Exhibition: Mike Lyon: String Theory

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Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, ColoradoPatton-Malott GalleryMay 27 – Jun 24, 2022 Anderson Ranch Arts Center is pleased to present String Theory, an exhibition of Mike Lyon’s beautifully crafted stringed instruments alongside highly abstracted portraits of his wife, his parents, his lawn, and himself. “Mike Lyon has been called a father of post-digital printmaking because […]

Linda – acrylic on canvas – 35 x 35 inches

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Black and white square spirals on gray ground, the black augmented by spirals in a narrower line width. I think this painting begins to balance traditional materials with novel computed tool manipulation – the process and the image become more balanced.

Linda in Black (mokuhanga) 41 x 29.5 inches

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Because of the way the four sets of spirals overlap in my painting Linda in Black, it seemed to be a perfect design for mokuhanga (Japanese technique woodcut). I isolated the four layers of square spiral I’d generated for the painting into four block plans: The spiral density (the number of revolutions of line in […]

untitled (four self-portrait variations ) 36 x 153 inches )

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Painted in overlapping rectangular (rather than square) spirals, each of the four canvases that make up this work is different but similar. The colors were painted in the same order on each canvas, but the orientation of the rectangles was varied so that, although the reference images are identical, each painting is different. I think […]

Linda in Black – painting – 42 x 30 inches

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This, I think, is one of the most successful of the spiral paintings. A very simple and highly abstracted portrait of Linda. This one is made of only four layers of relatively large overlapping spirals laid out in a grid 10 high by 7 wide. The layers are offset 1/2 a spiral diameter to the […]

Untitled self portrait: edition of 17 drawings

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My untitled self portrait for a print exchange exhibited at Southern Graphics Council 2019 in Dallas. Description of processes A print is an image made from a matrix. The matrix is typically an intaglio plate, relief block, lithographic surface, or stencil. The matrix can produce a quantity of like images. The matrix for my edition […]