Meredith Lyon works predominantly in oil paint considering figuration in multiple forms, from modern bodies seen through high-definition water ripples to classical figures from antiquity. Each work is an exploration of representation in dialogue with the many visual styles within our contemporary culture and heritage. Her techniques include photorealism in emulation of underwater and street photography, collage, juxtaposition and cinematic mise-en-scène.
The relationship to digital photography is extended through decisions around the application of the paint. A form of hatching indicates the accumulative effects of pixels and the hyper-realness, enabled by a fast shutter speed, leads to the globular diffraction of facial features, seemingly dispersed through the water.
Davis Lyon works constantly between renderings of form and flattened abstraction. Shadows show the turn of the body or set it aside from the base of the pool, but these details are also absorbed into a flat composition where glints of light on bubbles take their place alongside solid flesh and azure water.