The code that moves the pen that makes the image – I wrote the code – the image is mine

Artist Mike Lyon (American, born 1951)

Date2014

MediumPen and ink on pigment-tinted paper

DimensionsImage and sheet: 61 1/2 × 45 3/8 inches (156.21 × 115.25 cm)
Framed: 64 7/8 × 48 3/4 × 2 inches (164.78 × 123.83 × 5.08 cm)

Credit LineGift of Christine and Sandy Kemper

Object number2018.7

On View

Not on view

Collections

Contemporary Art

Terms

DescriptionThis is the image of a man, who turns his head down and toward the right to look away from the viewer, while holding his chin in his hand. The overall image includes the torso and head. The work is composed of complex layers of text, numbers, and punctuation marks that have been drawn on the surface.

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Assimilation, Kenilworth Square East Gallery at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, May, 2016, no cat.

Fresh: KCAI Alumni, National Juried Exhibition, Epsten Gallery, Overland Park, KS, August 28 - October 23, 2016, no cat.

The XYZs of Post-Digital Gesture: Drawings & Prints by Mike Lyon, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS, January 18 – April 16, 2017, no cat.

The Summer Invitational, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, June 2nd – August 19th, 2017, no cat.

Provenance

With Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, by June 2017.
Purchased from Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, by Christine and Sandy Kemper, Kansas City, MO, 2017.
Their gift to the Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO, 2018.

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