Lucy Lyon: Together, Alone

LucyLyon: Together, Alone

R A I L Y A R D

LewAllenGalleries

cover: Best Friends II, 2012, cast glass, 17” x 16” x 7.5”

LucyLyonTogether, Alone

AUGUST 31 - OCTOBER 7. 2012RAILYARD GALLERY

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Lucy Lyon: Together, Alone

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Lucy Lyon’s figurative glass sculptures explore themes of human interaction and individuality. With exquisite detail, Lyon’s cast glass subjects capture nuances of the human form with subtlety and grace, typically born of a strong narrative impulse. Many of her evocative works include figures in urban settings that express a state of mind through gesture. First sculpted in clay and then cast in glass, Lyon’s sublime color choices and understated forms unfuse her work with a unique humanity. Alluding to contemporary urbanity and youthful independence, her exquisitely wrought figures encourage quiet reflection.

Lyon’s cast-glass sculptures forge elegant interpretations of the human figure with sophisticated beauty and vibrant color. Each piece contains an atmosphere open to personal

Sleeper, 2012, cast glass and fabricated aluminum, 10.5” x 28.5” x 15.5”

interpretation and suggestive of a narrative or story - settings the artist describes as “places where one can be in a private space while in public.” Lyon states that for her, “the greatest challenge and greatest satisfaction comes from sculpting the figures. I concentrate on subtle gestures that can tell a story.”

Lucy Lyon graduated in 1971 from Antioch college and studied at the renown Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, Washington. She has taken a number of workshops across the country from well-known glass artists and her works have been exhibited in significant public institutions including: the Redding Museum of Art and History, Long Beach, CA; the Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM; and the New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM.

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Storyteller, 2012,cast glass and fabricated steel, 30” x 16” x 16”

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Nightclub, 2012,cast glass and aluminum, 19.5” x 40” x 16”

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Listener, 2012,cast glass and fabricated steel, 15” x 34” x 13”

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732-735, 2012,cast glass and fabricated aluminum, 28.5” x 20.5” x 20.5”

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Charlie Gibson’s Library, 2012,cast glass and fabricated aluminum, 20.5” x 22.75” x 19.5”

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Introspect, 2012,cast glass, 16.75” x 9.75” x 6”

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Kibitzer, 2012,cast glass, 17” x 16.5” x 9”

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Lucy Lyon Born: 1947, Colorado Springs, COEducation: Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, FL. Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:2006 Thomas R. Riley Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio2002 Intersections, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM2000 Solitude and Society, Portia Gallery, Chicago, IL1999 Portia Gallery, Chicago, IL1997 Garland Gallery, Santa Fe, NM1995 Garland Gallery, Santa Fe, NM1991 Elaine Horwitch Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Mariposa Gallery, Albuquerque, NM Del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA1987 University of New Mexico, Los Alamos, NM

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS & COMMISSIONS:2007 Website background, Western New Mexico University, Silver City, NM2002 Western New Mexico University, Silver City, NM

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:2011 Clear and Present; Work in Glass by Twelve Artists, LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM2010 38th Annual International Glass Invitational, Habatat Galleries, Royal Oak, MI Luminous Forms, LewAllen Contemporary Santa Fe, NM SOFA West, represented by Thomas R. Riley Galleries, Cleveland, OH2009 Palm Beach 3, represented by Thomas R. Riley Galleries, Cleveland, OH Fragile Domains, 6 artists, LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM AMoA Biennial 600 Glass, Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX (Honorable mention) SOFA West, Santa Fe, NM, represented by Thomas R. Riley Galleries, Cleveland OH Taos Art Glass Invitational, Hulse-Warman Gallery, Taos, NM SOFA Chicago, represented by Thomas R. Riley Galleries, Cleveland, OH2008 Palm Beach 2, represented by Thomas R. Riley Galleries, Cleveland OH SOFA Chicago, represented by Thomas R. Riley Galleries, Cleveland OH2007 Glass Alliance NM Show, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM (Invited talk) SOFA Chicago represented by Thomas R. Riley Galleries, Cleveland OH

2006 Palm Beach 1, represented by Thomas R. Riley Galleries, Cleveland OH SOFA Chicago, represented by Thomas R. Riley Galleries, Cleveland OH2005 SOFA Chicago, represented by Thomas R. Riley Galleries, Cleveland OH Glass Collectors Show, Palm Desert Museum, Palm Desert, CA SOFA New York represented by Thomas Riley Galleries, Columbus, OH Originals, Women in the Arts, New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM (Award, one of four)2004 FOCA show, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM Form 4, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM SOFA New York, represented by Thomas R. Riley Galleries, Columbus, OH2003 BeautyBornofFire:ContemporaryGlass,MansfieldArt Center,Mansfield,OH Glass Weekend, Wheaton Village, NJ, represented by Thomas Riley Galleries, Columbus OH SOFA Chicago, represented by Thomas R. Riley Galleries, Columbus, OH2002 Clay, Glass, Baskets, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM2001 SOFA New York, represented by Portia Gallery, Chicago, IL SOFA Chicago, represented by Portia Gallery, Chicago, IL Glass Show, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM2000 People and Places, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM Glass, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM Figurative Show, Miller Gallery, New York, NY SOFA Chicago, represented by Portia Gallery, Chicago, IL1999 FOCA Artists Show, LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM SOFA New York, represented by Miller Gallery, NY, NY SOFA Chicago, represented by Miller Gallery, New York, NY1998 Los Alamos Summer Sculpture Exhibit, Los Alamos, NM Glass from the High Desert: NM Glassworkers, The Governor’s Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Contemporary Art 1998, Art Center at Fuller Lodge, Los Alamos, NM FOCA Artists Show, LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Cast Glass, Portia Gallery, Chicago, IL 7th Annual International Cast Figurative Show, Miller Gallery, NY,NY SOFA, Chicago, represented by Miller Gallery, NY, NY

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1997 New Mexico Glass Artists, Obsidian Gallery, Tucson, AZ Jacona River Walk (installation), Jacona, NM1996 Sculpture Competition and Exhibition 1996, Los Alamos, NM1994-98 101 Cups, Karan Ruhlen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM1994 Truth in Glass, Philabaum Glass, Tucson, AZ1993 Lucy Lyon & Mark Tinsley, Redding Museum of Art and History, Redding, CA Lucy Lyon invited talk Invitational Glass Show, Ariana Gallery, Birmingham, MI Invitational Glass Show, Garland Gallery, Santa Fe, NM1992 Southwestern Shrines, Edith Lambert Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Shayne Gallery, Montreal, Quebec Masks, Joan, Day, Revas and Pogue, Columbus, Ohio Madonna Moderna, Edith Lambert Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Theme Shows, Mariposa Gallery, Albuquerque, NM1989 Summer Exhibition, Nancy Margolis Gallery, Portland, ME FantasyShow,LeeSclarGallery,Tenafly,NJ New Visions, Glass ‘89, Del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Breaking the Mold, Philabaum Glass, Tucson, AZ New Mexico Glass Show, Albuquerque, NM1988 Southwest Invitational, Philabaum Glass, Tucson, AZ1987 New Mexico ‘87, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM, Catalog Visions of Excellence, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM Que Pasa, Fuller Art Lodge, Los Alamos, NM Invitational Glass Show, St. John’s College, Santa Fe, NM1986 New Mexico Glass Show, Albuquerque,NM1985 New Mexico Glass Show, Albuquerque, NM, “Best of Show,” “Best Flat Glass”1984 New Mexico Glass Show, Albuquerque, NM, “Best Flat Glass”1982 Santa Fe Festival of the Arts, Santa Fe, NM New Mexico Glass Show, Albuquerque, NM, “Best Flat Glass”1981 Crafts ‘81, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM New Mexico Glass Show, Albuquerque, NM

ARTICLES:2009 SOFA Chicago catalouge pp. 18-212000 Glass, Design Issue, Dec.1997 Pasatiempo, The Santa Fe New Mexican1995 Pasatiempo, The Santa Fe New Mexican1985 “Lucy Lyon,” American Art Glass Quarterly, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 60-71

OTHER GLASS EXPERIENCE:2010 Glass Alliance NM presentation, LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM2009 Lucy Lyon: Adding a Dimension, invited presentation, SOFA Chicago2007 Implications of Transforming the Figure into Glass, 2007 GAS Conference (Organized and moderated panel)1994 Juror for the New Mexico Glass Show1992 Juror for the New Mexico Glass Show1989 Artist in Residence, Art Park, Lewiston, NY

ILLUSTRATIONS:1996 Dewey, Jennifer Owings and Lucy Lyon. A Coloring Book of Prehistoric Mammals on the Rise in the Southwest. Ill. Lucy Lyon. Santa Fe, NM: Museum of New Mexico Press.1991 Dewey, Jennifer Owings and Lucy Lyon. Prehistoric Walkers of the Southwest: A Coloring Book. Ill. Lucy Lyon. Santa Fe, NM: Museum of New Mexico Press.1990 Dewey, Jennifer Owings and Lucy Lyon. A Coloring Book of Prehistoric Swimmers and Flyers of the Southwest. Ill. Lucy Lyon. Santa Fe, NM: Museum of New Mexico Press.

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