Mike Lyon

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Visit with Jean-Pierre Hébert

October 6, 2012 By Mike Lyon

I usually visit Santa Barbara, California two or three times a year to attend meetings and practices at Shotokan Ohshima Dojo. This year David Altman, one of my closest friends, and I traveled together to Santa Barbara for a special practice for our rank. One of the most personally interesting artists profiled in Paul Catanese and Angela […]

Filed Under: Press Tagged With: Algorithmic Approach, Angela, David Altman, Digital Printmaking, Drawings, Gorgeous, Gracious Hosts, Image, Ink Jet Prints, Jean Pierre, Nbsp, Ohshima, Paul Catanese, Plotter, Rank One, Santa Barbara California, Three Times

Cambodia 2 pen and ink drawing – 45 x 85 inches

May 13, 2012 By Mike Lyon

I’ll try to explain this series of drawings from S-21 prison in Phnom-Penh and the killing field not far away pretty soon, I suppose. The young men and women whose remains are the subject of my recent drawing were imprisoned by Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia during the late 1970’s. Confined in S-21 […]

Filed Under: Drawing Tagged With: Acrylic Glass, Ballots, Buddhist Stupa, Cambodia, Covert Action, David Roberts, Drawings, Gover, Human Skulls, Ink Drawing, Khmer Rouge, Khmer Rouge Regime, Killing Field, Killing Fields, Mass Graves, Pen And Ink, Pen Ink, Pete Domenici, Phnom Penh, Phnom Penh Cambodia, Pol Pot, Political Prisoners, Quarterly Fall, Sardines, Sen Pete Domenici, Senior Lecturer, University Of Ulster, Us Electoral Process

Carlos Pen and Ink Drawing 75 x 45 inches

March 13, 2012 By Mike Lyon

My friend, Kim Weinberger told me that her friend, Carlos Hernandez, had admired my work at the America Now and Here show and wanted to model for me – she introduced us over drinks and…  Well Carlos is a great looking guy and the following weekend he came to my studio to model for me. […]

Filed Under: Drawing, Featured Tagged With: Carlos Hernandez, Drawings, Drinks, Friend Carlos, Friend Kim, Ink Drawing, Nbsp, Nice Guy, Pen And Ink, Pen Ink, Weinberger

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

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