Mike Lyon

Painting Drawing Printmaking Japanese Woodblock Printing Furniture Lighting

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Post-Digital Printmaking

July 14, 2012 By Mike Lyon

An accomplished artist and engineer, Lyon’s facility for investigating creative outcomes for new technologies pervades his endeavors. During his studies in the 1970s, exposure to computer-generated images such as Studies in Perception No. 1 by Leon Harmon and Ken Knowlton, as well as the processes used in the artwork of Chuck Close, had a great influence and still resonate with him today.

Filed Under: Exhibitions, Press Tagged With: Art Expertise, Black Belt, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Computer Generated Images, Creative Practice, Creative Production, Digital Printmaking, Dojo, Factory Automation, Hanga, Hybrid Techniques, Japanese Culture, Japanese Woodblock Printing, Japanese Zen, Ken Knowlton, Mechanical Systems, Mike Lyon, moku, Moku-Hanga, Paintings And Drawings, Shin Hanga, Shotokan Karate, Visual Aesthetics, Zen Philosophy

“Linda” 77×46 inch pen and ink drawing in spiral

July 31, 2008 By Mike Lyon

Today, after 11 days non-stop drawing, I completed a large pen and ink drawing of Linda which sorta ‘marries’ my long interest in tiles and spirals with the squiggly cross-hatched drawings of recent years. I think it’s pretty successful and depicts my angelic wife (who doesn’t much mind my long hours in studio) with a […]

Filed Under: Drawing, Featured, Video Tagged With: Abstraction, Aesthetics, Engraving, Jerry Vegder, Ken Knowlton, Machine Drawings, MOMA, Pen and Ink Drawing, Pencil, Precipitate, Self Portrait, Spiral, Spirals, Sudarium, Tiles

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