Until the early 1990's I practiced the eye-hand coordination required to draw and paint visually (paint what you see). Then I became intensely curious about how image was communicated through the marks I made. I began employing automated procedures and, eventually, electromechanical tools, many of my own design and construction. I continue to be fascinated by marks and mark-making, pattern, aesthetics, the past, and the location of meaning. My recent work is typically produced using traditional tools manipulated by non-traditional means. I’ve designed and built numerous computer-controlled jigs which hold pencils, pens, brushes, airbrushes, flow-pens, etc all moved and actuated via tens of millions of lines of instructions which are generated by computer programs I’ve … (read more...)

Exhibition: Gallery at Foundry Vineyards

Exhibition: Global Dimensions

“Madz” mokuhanga 31 x 22 inches

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

Exhibition: Mike Lyon: String Theory

untitled (self portrait) 35 x 35 inches acrylic on canvas

Linda – acrylic on canvas – 35 x 35 inches

Linda in Black (mokuhanga) 41 x 29.5 inches

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

Linda in Black – painting – 42 x 30 inches

Untitled self portrait: edition of 17 drawings

“Elena” life size pen and ink drawing

Small drawings with square spirals

Large drawing (Hal) with nested squares

32 Small drawings with characters

Two small woodcuts using a wedged registration jig

Secret Garden (clover woodcut)

Exhibition: The XYZs of Post-Digital Gesture: Drawings & Prints by Mike Lyon

Kelsey

Sinjun drawing 50 x 34 inches

Leone and Megan

Wow Mom and other textual drawings

The code that moves the pen makes the image…
