Ronald is “the ultimate authority on everything” / McDonald’s

“I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.” / Charlie Chaplin

“The most beautiful thing in Stockholm is McDonald’s” / Andy Warhol – The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (from A to B and back again) 1977.

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Noah Lyon drawings and the Retard Riot Zines table at the NY Art Book Fair 2009 – P.S.1 MoMA

Friendly Fire / Flaming Creatures exhibition curated by Printed Matter Inc.

Press Sydnyntt Television coverage of the “Noah Lyon – Look At All Your Stuff “exhibition

“With a fantastic imagination à la Bosch Lyon gets his nourishment from popular culture, news flow, contemporary society, international politics and doomsday prophecies… – review by Thomas Millroth

Noah Lyon ”Look at All Your Stuff”
Galleri Thomas Wallner, Malmö, Sweden
through May 27

Noah Lyon’s drawings are like graffiti-covered walls. Bright colors call you in to take a closer look; in the multitudes I’m drawn to “All Your Stuff”. A man, or is it a bird, in a wheelchair is chewing, like Moloch, on a naked figure, who is expelling gas in anticipation of death, while another guy without a head slinking away with a turd on his shoulders. Some poor wretch is flushed down the toilet, and a miserable bastard, trapped in an orange bag, is vomiting from his torture. The colors of U.S.A. are shining through like a dirty rainbow. The doomsday horn is blowing.

Figure is added to figure, scene added to scene, one image next to another, in a color scale that would do credit to any Concretist. With a fantastic imagination à la Bosch Lyon gets his nourishment from popular culture, news flow, contemporary society, international politics and doomsday prophecies. Full to the brim. It is important to say everything, all at once. Then he can leave the words and thoughts to the beholder. Implicitly he is offering his world, what does yours look like? ”Look at All Your Stuff” is the name of the exhibition!

The pressure in Lyon’s imagery is kept high by the small format. Sometimes down to mini size. Then they are small picture buttons that are also put together into “button paintings”. The effect is stroboscopic; quick punch lines about his world.

Alongside the image fury Lyon shows more conventional paintings. Loaded with air, light and dreams of a sort of American mythology. The painting “Pyramid Me” is just a small picture of a man in a cowboy hat in front of a wall that has been sewn together; the seam resembles a pole with a small owl. Within, I hear Hank Williams’ tragic dreams and painfully beautiful music!

Lyon’s images collide in a way that would have put André Breton in ecstasy.

- Thomas Millroth, art critic – Sydsvenskan April 30, 2009 click here to see more works from the show

Click images to view full size – Noah Lyon drawings and the Retard Riot Zines table at the NY Art Book Fair 2008 – Friendly Fire curated by Printed Matter Inc. -  Press: New York Times, Art Lovers New York

WIZ WIZ CIPHER curated by Noah Lyon

Featuring works by:

KENNETH ANGER
CORY ARCANGEL
BLEAK BEAUTY
MAT BRINKMAN
BRIAN CHIPPENDALE
MARTHA COLBURN
JO DERY
JIM DRAIN & ARA PETERSON
PAPER RAD
SHEPARD FAIREY
DEVIN FLYNN
LEIF GOLDBERG
JAN HÅFSTRÖM
MISAKI KAWAI
RAPHAEL LYON
XANDER MARRO
BARRY MCGEE
CHRIS JOHANSON
SERGIO PALACIOS
ERIK PARKER
BEN WOODWARD
ANDREW JEFFREY WRIGHT and more…

Noah Lyon “I Live In A Box” – Black Ark Gallery – click images – Press “Noah Lyon at Home by James Wagner”

Noah Lyon artist books and Retard Riot zines table at the 2nd Annual NY Art Book Fair 2007 Friendly Fire exhibition curated by Printed Matter Inc.

Press: Second Annual New York Art Book Fair – jameswagner.com, New York Times Art Review

The Retard Riot table at the 1st annual The NY Art Book Fair in the old DIA building.

This was made directly on the wall of one of the secret rooms of the Dirt Palace. Nobody knows about this show except you.