Lucy Lyon: Together, Alone

LucyLyon: Together, Alone

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LucyLyon Together, Alone AUGUST 31 - OCTOBER 7. 2012 RAILYARD GALLERY

LewAllenGalleries Railyard: 1613 Paseo De Peralta | Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 | tel 505.988.3250 Downtown: 125 West Palace Avenue | Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 | tel 505.988.8997 www.lewallengalleries.com | info@lewallengalleries.com cover: Best Friends II, 2012, cast glass, 17” x 16” x 7.5”

Lucy Lyon: Together, Alone

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

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.

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.

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

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Storyteller, 2012, cast glass and fabricated steel, 30” x 16” x 16” 3

Nightclub, 2012, cast glass and aluminum, 19.5” x 40” x 16” 4

Listener, 2012, cast glass and fabricated steel, 15” x 34” x 13” 5

732-735, 2012, cast glass and fabricated aluminum, 28.5” x 20.5” x 20.5” 6

Charlie Gibson’s Library, 2012, cast glass and fabricated aluminum, 20.5” x 22.75” x 19.5” 7

Introspect, 2012, cast glass, 16.75” x 9.75” x 6” 8

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

Lucy Lyon Born: 1947, Colorado Springs, CO

Education: Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, FL. Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 2006 Thomas R. Riley Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio 2002 Intersections, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM 2000 Solitude and Society, Portia Gallery, Chicago, IL 1999 Portia Gallery, Chicago, IL 1997 Garland Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 1995 Garland Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 1991 Elaine Horwitch Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

Mariposa Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

Del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1987 University of New Mexico, Los Alamos, NM PUBLIC COLLECTIONS & COMMISSIONS: 2007 Website background, Western New Mexico University,

Silver City, NM 2002 Western New Mexico University, Silver City, NM SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 2011 Clear and Present; Work in Glass by Twelve Artists, LewAllen

Galleries, Santa Fe, NM 2010 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, OH 2009 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, OH 2008 Palm Beach 2, represented by Thomas R. Riley Galleries,

Cleveland OH

SOFA Chicago, represented by Thomas R. Riley Galleries,

Cleveland OH 2007 Glass Alliance NM Show, LewAllen Contemporary,

Santa Fe, NM (Invited talk)

SOFA Chicago represented by Thomas R. Riley Galleries,

Cleveland OH

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2006

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Palm Beach 1, represented by Thomas R. Riley Galleries, Cleveland OH SOFA Chicago, represented by Thomas R. Riley Galleries, Cleveland OH 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) FOCA show, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM Form 4, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM SOFA New York, represented by Thomas R. Riley Galleries, Columbus, OH Beauty Born of Fire: Contemporary Glass, Mansfield Art Center, Mansfield, OH Glass Weekend, Wheaton Village, NJ, represented by Thomas Riley Galleries, Columbus OH SOFA Chicago, represented by Thomas R. Riley Galleries, Columbus, OH Clay, Glass, Baskets, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM SOFA New York, represented by Portia Gallery, Chicago, IL SOFA Chicago, represented by Portia Gallery, Chicago, IL Glass Show, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM 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, IL 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, NY 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

OTHER GLASS EXPERIENCE: 2010 Glass Alliance NM presentation, LewAllen Galleries,

Santa Fe, NM 2009 Lucy Lyon: Adding a Dimension, invited presentation,

SOFA Chicago 2007 Implications of Transforming the Figure into Glass, 2007

GAS Conference (Organized and moderated panel) 1994 Juror for the New Mexico Glass Show 1992 Juror for the New Mexico Glass Show 1989 Artist in Residence, Art Park, Lewiston, NY

1997 New Mexico Glass Artists, Obsidian Gallery, Tucson, AZ

Jacona River Walk (installation), Jacona, NM 1996 Sculpture Competition and Exhibition 1996, Los Alamos, NM 1994-98 101 Cups, Karan Ruhlen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 1994 Truth in Glass, Philabaum Glass, Tucson, AZ 1993 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, NM 1992 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, NM 1989 Summer Exhibition, Nancy Margolis Gallery, Portland, ME

Fantasy Show, Lee Sclar Gallery, Tenafly, NJ

New Visions, Glass ‘89, Del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Breaking the Mold, Philabaum Glass, Tucson, AZ

New Mexico Glass Show, Albuquerque, NM 1988 Southwest Invitational, Philabaum Glass, Tucson, AZ 1987 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, NM 1986 New Mexico Glass Show, Albuquerque,NM 1985 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

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.

ARTICLES: 2009 SOFA Chicago catalouge pp. 18-21 2000 Glass, Design Issue, Dec. 1997 Pasatiempo, The Santa Fe New Mexican 1995 Pasatiempo, The Santa Fe New Mexican 1985 “Lucy Lyon,” American Art Glass Quarterly, Vol. 3, No. 1,

pp. 60-71

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