Kimberly Lyons

Capella Kimberly Lyons

Poetry. Lyons is a meticulous scientist, careful to document whatever presents itself in the petri dish, whatever occurs -- she doesn't discriminate or try to skew her results. She doesn't distinguish between dream, fairy tale, hallucination, and an ordinary morning. You could stub a toe on one of her symbols. The awkward, weird and inexplicable are faithfully recorded along with the quotidian... . In Lyons' eye, icons are stripped of their sentimental and traditional associations and histories. One feels in her work both the curiosity and the courage it takes truly to see, the loneliness of being with things as they are, in the fugitive present.--Billie Chernicoff