Lyons’ compelling new series is now less about the fragility of childhood and its quickly fleeting moments; instead she focuses her lens primarily on the idea of preserving feelings long gone and the struggle to deal with both issues. Lyons continues to shy away from staged scenes, instead shooting more candid moments. While the narrative elements in her work remain strong, the sense of nostalgia has been replaced by a potent transience. It is Lyons’ intention to use figurative language in an effort to transcend the idea that sentimentality is similar to a domesticated and somewhat powerless state of mind.

On view will be works shot on location in Spain, New York City and state, and the artists’ birth state of Florida. The pieces range from a tightly composed high-contrast picture of two girls standing side by side in green and white patterned dresses, one’s knee bound by a bloody bandage from a playtime accident -- to luminous moonlit pictures of homemade fireworks on the beach -- to ethereal floral and forest landscapes. With her signature mix of rich color and new infusion of highly charged compositions working in strong tandem, Lyons continues to reinforce herself as a commanding presence on the contemporary photography scene.

Lyons has exhibited on both coasts, including the 2006 solo exhibition Haunted at The Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY; See Jane Run at The Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA; and at the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Kiyosato, Japan. Lyons’ work is in the permanent collection of the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts in Kiyosato, Japan; The Center for Photography, Woodstock NY; the J.P. Morgan Chase Art Collection, San Francisco and New York; and Adobe Systems, San José, CA. Her work has been reviewed and featured in ARTnews, Art in America, the San Jose Mercury News, and Artweek. Lyons received her MFA degree from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2001, and studied with Larry Sultan at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland in the late 1990s.