NEWS AND EXHIBITIONS:
"Ornithological Quadrupeds," a portfolio of lithographs from the Association for Creative Zoology is currently on view at the McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture in the University of Tennessee campus until January 28, 2022.
The Hokes Archives is featured in Antoinette LaFarge's new book Sting in the Tale: Art Hoax, and Provocation published by DoppleHouse Press, Los Angeles, 2021.
Beauvais Lyons designed the forthcoming cover of Design Issues (vol. 37, no. 2, Spring 2021, MIT Press). To see the design, CLICK HERE.
Beauvais Lyons' current project is "Circus Orbis." To learn more, CLICK HERE. The project was exhibited in "Forward Press: 21st Century American Printmaking" at the Katzen Art Center at American University in Washington, DC, April 6 - August 12, 2019. The exhibition was praised in a review in The Washington Post, "At the A.U. Museum, these 10 printmakers are tearing up the rule book" by Mark Jenkins, and in the Washington City Paper, "Forward Press at the American University Museum Explores All Manner of Printmaking," by Stephanie Rudig.
Lyons presented lithographs and taxidermy from his creative zoology project for an exhibition titled "Fantastic Fauna: Chimeric Creatures by Beauvais Lyons" at the Gregg Museum of Art & Design at North Carolina State University from July 18, 2019 - January 26, 2020. CLICK HERE for a virtual tour of the exhibition.
CLICK HERE to read an article by Beauvais Lyons in the Tennessee arts journal Number, issue 97 on the Tennessee Bull-Raccoon. He also published an essay on "The Printmaker as Time Traveller" from the G&E Print and Art Edition Magazine, issue 62, February 2019 (Madrid, Spain).
Beauvais Lyons and Steve A. Prince co-chaired a session on "Prints and Community Practice" at the College Art Association Conference in Chicago, Illinois on Feburary 14, 2020. Hosted by fellow panelist Deborah Maris Lader, he presented a technical demo on color printing the following day at the Chicago Printmakers Collaborative.
Beauvais Lyons received a 2020 Excellence in Teaching Award from the University of Tennessee, as well as the 2017 Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC) Excellence in Teaching Award at their conference in Columbus, Ohio.
CLICK HERE for a video profile on the Hokes Archives.
