New STILL LIFES by MARl LYONS

Mari Lyons's tenth one-person show at First Street Gallery features a variety of still-life paintings—some intimate and direct, some larger, dramatically complex, and elusive, all

painterly, all done in her new studio in Woodstock, New York. The studio itself becomes the subject to which all of the paintings relate, as well as to its light and shadows, its outside views,

objects of various sizes and shapes-from a Persian pot to a pumpkin, to a carousel horse, a bear skull, bright sunflowers, Indian corn, the horizontal board lines on the walls.

Most of the work is oil on canvas, though some paintings are done with oil stick on paper

or canvas, or pastel on paper, or watercolor.

Lyons's last show at First Street, "Mostly 80th Street and Broadway," was composed of

large cityscapes. The current show is more personal but no less vigorous—the palette vibrant, intense.

Lyons studied at Mills College with Max Beckmann and Fletcher Martin, Bard College (Louis Schanker, Ludwig Sander), Yale-Norfolk (Bernard Chaet, Gahor Peterdi), Atelier 17, and Cranbrook Academy of Art (Zoltan Zepheshy, Madison Fred Mitchell). Her work has been cited

in The New York Sun, Modern Painters, The New Republic, Forbes FYI, The New York Times, and elsewhere, and is represented in more than 120 private and corporate collections worldwide, and

in the permanent collection of the Museum of the City or New York.