Noah Lyon “Indecipherable Nonsense: Zines and Works on Paper”
Printed Matter, Inc.
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Printed Matter presents the exhibition Indecipherable Nonsense, featuring a a broad selection of zines, artists’ books, prints, and newly created works on paper by Noah Lyon.
Over the last two decades Lyon has maintained a productive self-published book practice, creating roughly drawn, comic-inspired drawings. At the core of this has been more than 50 xeroxed zines, printed in b&w and staple-bound, that are jammed with oddball characters, visual puns and plays on words that clash together in overlapping black sharpie.
For the exhibition at Printed Matter, Lyon has created a new series of original ink-on-paper and rubber-stamp drawings, as well as editioned screenprints. The works incorporate characters that appear throughout his zines, interacting in an absurdist two-dimensional world that is at once filled with nonsense and tightly controlled. Lyon’s series of black and white drawings go “all over”, offering satirical social commentary and playful mutations of culture at large in the energized style of artists of like Peter Saul and Keith Haring.
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Schedule
from March 19, 2015 to April 18, 2015
Opening Reception on 2015-03-19 from 18:00 to 20:00