SELECTED PRESS

Between 2000 and 2015, Mari received more than two dozen serious reviews by Jed Perl, Lance Esplund, David Cohen, and others in The Wall Street Journal, Modern Painters, The Sun, The Kingston Freeman, The New Republic, and elsewhere. Below are some of the citations.

  2015            ONVIEWAT.com, “Mari Lyons: Floating Palettes” by John Goodrich

   2012             MAGICIANS & CHARLATANS: Essays on Art & Culture, book by Jed Perl (excerpt)

   2012             WALL STREET JOURNAL, “Mari Lyons” Sunsets/Hillsides,” by Lance Esplund

   2010             HUFFINGTON POST, “Mari Lyons: Every Object Rightly Seen,” by John Seed

   2008            NEW REPUBLIC, “Pirate Lives,” by Jed Perl

   2005            NEW REPUBLIC, “Formalism and Its Discontents,” by Jed Perl

   2005           THE SUN, “Gallery Going,’ by Lance Esplund

   2003           THE SUN, “Gallery Going,” by David Cohen

   2000           EYEWITNESS, "Artists and Audiences" by Jed Perl

   2000           FULL CREEL by Nick Lyons (Jacket illustration and 29 drawings)

   1999            NEW REPUBLIC, "Winners," by Jed Perl   

   1999            FORBES FYI (short article on cityscapes by ML, unsigned)

   1997            NEW YORK TIMES, "One Paints, the Other Fishes" (Carol Lawson) 

   1996            A FLY FISHER'S WORLD, by Nick Lyons (Jacket illustration and 23 drawings)

   1992            SPRING CREEK, by Nick Lyons (Jacket illustration and 27 line drawings)

   1991             PARNASSUS:  Poetry in Review, "Double Self-Portrait"

   1991             ARTSPEAK, "The Life of Inanimate Objects" (E. McCormack)

   1988            ARTIST'S PROOF, "The Street" (ML)  

   1986            PARNASUS: Poetry in Review, "Still Life with Skulls"