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Mike Lyon
Biography
Born: Kansas City, MO 1951
Current Residence: Kansas City, MO
Mike attended the University of Pennsylvania where he received his B.A. in Architecture and Fine Arts. He then attended the Kansas City Art Institute and received his B.F.A. After working in the business sector for many years, Mike resumed his career as a full-time artist in the 90’s.
Selected Group and Solo Exhibitions:
“Backstage Pass”, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
“International Artists’ Exhibition”, Centro per la Arti Contemporanee DEDALO, Castiglion a Cassuria, Pescara, Italy
“Mike Lyon: Large Scale Drawings & Woodblock Prints”, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City
“Mike Lyon: My Life”, Gallery EZOSHI, Kyoto Japan
“Inspired by Japan”, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS
Selected Collections:
Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan, KS Barkley Evergreen Collection The Collectors Fund Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia MO Emprise Bank Collection Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
Current Residence: Kansas City, MO
Mike attended the University of Pennsylvania where he received his B.A. in Architecture and Fine Arts. He then attended the Kansas City Art Institute and received his B.F.A. After working in the business sector for many years, Mike resumed his career as a full-time artist in the 90’s.
Selected Group and Solo Exhibitions:
“Backstage Pass”, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
“International Artists’ Exhibition”, Centro per la Arti Contemporanee DEDALO, Castiglion a Cassuria, Pescara, Italy
“Mike Lyon: Large Scale Drawings & Woodblock Prints”, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City
“Mike Lyon: My Life”, Gallery EZOSHI, Kyoto Japan
“Inspired by Japan”, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS
Selected Collections:
Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan, KS Barkley Evergreen Collection The Collectors Fund Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia MO Emprise Bank Collection Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
Artist Statement
“Some years ago, I reconceived the ‘breaking of images into pieces’ and ‘building images out of tiles’. I have designed tens of thousands of simple and unique tile patterns and designs, and that has fascinated me ever since. It seems to me that in tiling, I am at the ‘edge’ of art. When the tilings are simple enough, I can understand how they go together and what makes them work ‘all at once’. But it doesn’t take very much complexity before I can’t understand it all at once. Then I start ‘choosing’ patterns I like better and discarding those I like less, and it seems to me that in that irrational choice, art begins. Simpler than that and it’s science. And when I overlay two patterns which I can understand ‘at once’, suddenly the whole thing is over the edge, and way beyond the boundary of intelligible complexity.”