Gallery With A Cause • Located in the New Mexico Cancer Center • Benefitting the NMCC Foundation
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Biography
A majority of Lyle’s professional life had been in upstate New York where he had an architectural practice for over 28 years. He received his professional architectural degree from Syracuse University in 1959 and also spent a year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In the 1960s Lyle lived in the San Francisco Bay area where he studied Fine Art at the San Francisco Art Institute with teachers such as Elmer Bishoff and Richard Diebenkorn. Lyle went on to teach architectural design at Syracuse University’s School of Architecture as an Associate Professor.
Lyle moved to New Mexico in 1996 and in 2003 started painting full-time upon retirement from TVI Community College as Facility Architect. Lyle has studied painting with Albert Handell, Doug Dawson, Eric Michaels, Richard McKinley, Ann Templeton, and others. He strongly admires the work of the Impressionists. Lyle is an award-winning artist who has exhibited extensively throughout the Southwest.
Artist Statement
I paint in watercolor, pastel and oil and endeavor to invite the viewer into my paintings using color, light and composition. I continue to strive to paint in a more loose and impressionistic way. Because of my architectural experience I often incorporate man-made structures into my landscapes to for scale and additional interest. I continually strive to simplify the elements and abstract the essence of the scene, not to imitate or copy, but because I am inspired by the ambiance. I feel art is like a journey towards understanding our relationship to our environment. Through art I have developed a greater intuitive response to the beauty around me, and I hope to inspire others to further appreciate our natural and man-made environment.
