04/08/2026
A touchpoint for Lyons in the paintings of “Full Earth” is the writings of seminal Everglades conservationist Marjory Stoneman Douglas. The artist was struck by Douglas’s poetic, complicated descriptions of Florida, which reflected Lyons’s own memories of and engagement with this region and its landscape. She cites of Douglas:
[H]istory, the recorded time of the earth of man, is in itself something like a river. To try to present it whole is to find oneself lost in the sense of time and space, and the end is the future and the unknown. What we can know lies somewhere between the course along which for a little way one proceeds, the changing life, the varying light, must somehow be fixed in a moment clearly, from which one may look before and after and try to comprehend wholeness. So it is with the Everglades, which have that quality of long existence in their own nature. They were changeless. They were changed. They were complete before man came to them, and for centuries afterward, when he was only one of those forms which shared, in a finely balanced harmony, the forces and ancient nature of the place.
–Marjorie Stoneman Douglas, The Everglades: River of Grass, 1947
“Kat Lyons, Full Earth,” the artist’s first institutional solo presentation, is on view at Marquez Art Projects.
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Featured: Kat Lyons, All the World A Cow, 2025, Oil on canvas, 48 x 72 in.
