York College Galleries
Posted August 19, 2008FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The York College Galleries will open the academic year with an exhibit of clay monotypes by a Pennsylvania artist and another featuring the top international print and television advertisements.
“Terragraph: Clay Monotypes by Mitch Lyons” and “The One Show: 2008 Best of Advertising” will open on Sept. 4 with a reception from 5 – 7 p.m. They will be on display through Sept. 27 in the York Galleries in Evelyn and Earle Wolf Hall. Gallery hours are 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., Monday through Thursday, and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. Exhibits and opening receptions are open to the public free of charge. More information is available at phemzik@ycp.edu, 717-815-1528.
Mitch Lyons has been pioneering the making of images onto clay slabs since 1968. The results are stunning monoprints characterized by saturated color and expressionistic texture, with references to organic forms and geometric patterns. Sometimes ghost images from previous prints appear in a work, presenting a history of his enigmatic image vocabulary.
Lyons earned a master of fine arts in ceramics from Temple University’s Tyler School of Art, and a bachelor of fine arts in graphics from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. He has held more than 100 workshops on his technique throughout the past ten years, and his clay monoprints can be found in many private and public collections throughout the United States.
Lyons has exhibited his work at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Noyes Museum in New Jersey, Kalmar Lans Museum in Sweden and the Vonderau Museum in Germany. He received a Visual Arts Grant from the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts and has taught at West Chester University, Rowan University, Moore College of Art, Alfred University and the University of Delaware.
Now in its 33rd year, “The One Show” is the premiere international advertising award show that has set the industry standard for creative excellence. Categories include print, television, radio, outdoor, innovative media and marketing, and more recently, integrated branding.
A variety of work – nearly 24,000 entries from more than 60 countries – is judged annually by an international jury of award-winning art directors, copywriters and creative directors. The 2008 “One Show” award ceremony was celebrated in front of 600 industry professionals in New York City in May 2008, and then the winning print and television advertisements travel worldwide.
The One Club for Art and Copy (www.oneclub.org) is the world’s foremost nonprofit organization for the recognition and promotion of excellence in advertising. Founded in 1975 and based in New York City, The One Club produces three annual awards competitions: the “One Show,” the “One Show Design” and the “One Show Interactive.”
Located in southcentral Pennsylvania, York College is among Pennsylvania’s largest comprehensive colleges, offering more than 70 majors to its 4,600 undergraduate students. With a 15:1 student-to-faculty ratio and distinctive mentoring programs, York provides an environment that emphasizes close personal attention to students from 30 states and 38 countries.
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