Karyn Lyons

B. 1966, NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, USA

Karyn Lyons is a former art director in the fashion industry. As a New York-based painter, she captures teen girls engaging with love and life. Her filmic sense of composition depicts moments of intimacy juxtaposed against those complicated (confusing or shameful) between-times of exploration, discovery, and resolution. Mysterious, sinister, romantic—these pictures are exorcisms of desire, of those luscious days when all you (Gen X) could do was sit by the phone and hope you didn’t miss the call.