Noah Lyon in Don’t Flee The Art Market at Postmasters Gallery, New York City 2009

Press New York Times Magazine Blog, December 16, 2009


Participating artists:
Agata
Shinsuke Aso
Jennifer Brantley
Zach Cregger
Brian Cronin
Ira Eduoardova
Thomas Giubliuzzi
Hands On
Narendra Hayes
Noah Lyon
Michelle Matson
Jenny Morgan
David Mramor
Seamus Mulholland
Kader Muzaqi
Chris Oh
Steve Oh
James Prez
Naropa Sabine
Jenny Salomon
Sarah Smizz
Eric Taylor
and others…
organized by Paulina Bebecka

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

Press New York Times, Art Lovers New York

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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…

Press “Noah Lyon at Home by James Wagner”

Featuring: Vito Acconci, Lynda Barry, AA Bronson, Nan Goldin, Hans Haacke, Xylor Jane, Chris Johanson, Robert Longo, Noah Lyon, Giles Lyon, Barry McGee, Marilyn Minter, Slava Mogutin, Yoko Ono, Tom Otterness, Amy Sillman, Kiki Smith, Ultra Violet, John Waters, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, Terry Winters and

All proceeds from the show directly support Visual AIDS and their ongoing work utilizing the visual arts to keep an emphasis on the AIDS pandemic and offering direct services to artists living with HIV and AIDS.

James Cohan Gallery
533 West 26th Street New York NY 10001
Tel 212 714 9500 Fax 212 714 9510
Hours Tuesday – Saturday, 10 – 6 pm

Ornament: Ho Hum All Ye Faithful November 30th – January 12th, 2007

Featuring: Christopher Astley, Lisha H. Bai, Diane Barcelowski, Larissa Bates, Bhakti Baxter, Sandra Bermudez, Nina Bovasso, Lee Boroson, Astrid Bowlby, Jim Butler, William Buzzell, Andrea Cohen, Eric Doeringer, Andrea Dezso, Peter Dudek, James Esber, Kiersten Essenpreis, Jane Fine, Douglas Florian, John Freeborn, Orly Genger, Amy Globus, Robert Greenberg, Amy Guglielmo, Happy Fun collective, Irene Hardwicke Olivieri, Maya Hayuk, Elana Herzog, Danny Hobart, Lisa Hoke, James Hyde, Warren Isensee, Robin Kahn, Amy S. Kauffman, Mckendree Key, Dan Kopp, Marcia Kure, Alex Kwartler, Julian LaVerdiere, Charlotte Lee, Joan Linder, Emil Lukas, Noah Lyon, Fabian Marcaccio, Ted Mineo, Annette Monnier, Andrea Myers, Heidi Nielson, Carl Ostendarp, Julie Peppito, Charles Ritchie, Monique Rollins, Michael Rees, Tom Sanford, Jonathan Seliger, Shelter Serra, Beth Servetar, Guy Richards Smit, Space 1026, Erika Somogyi, Michael Somoroff, Mary Ann Strandell, Steed Taylor, Federico Uribe, Rachel Urkowitz, Michael Villiquette, Ed Zipco, and others…

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New York, New York 10001
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