“Lumonics is an absolutely beautiful immersion of love, original music, and mind-bending light and visual art that blends over 50 years of psychedelia-inspired artistic audiovisual mastery. I will always keep coming back to support and indulge in the immersive experience.” – Connor H. excerpted from Google Review
“Denver continues to be immersed in immersive arts experiences, with more to come. The Denver Immersive Gathering, a major confab for immersive artists and fans, will run from November 4 to November 6; get the details on DIG 2022 here.”
(here is the section on Lumonics; click on the link for all the immersive experiences listed in the article:)
The late Dorothy Tanner and her husband, Mel, started creating immersive experiences decades before the trend. Photo: Candace Hill
Immerse yourself in Lumonics. www.lumonics.net
Lumonics Immersed Saturdays, 8 to 10:30 p.m. Lumonics Light and Sound Gallery, 800 East 73rd Avenue, Unit 11 The Lumonics art collective started offering immersive experiences decades ago, long before the immersive concept was exploited by companies that realized it was the perfect way to capitalize on iPhone-wielding influencers. Lumonics Light and Sound Gallery, which is devoted to the light sculptures of the late Mel and Dorothy Tanner, now offers weekly editions of Lumonics Immersed, an event designed to provide healing while the sculptures’ glowing lights pulsate to ethereal music produced by Dorothy and composer Marc Billard, the Lumonics studio’s creative director. “Dorothy used to call it a vacation from yourself,” Barry Raphael, the gallery’s archivist, told Westword last year. Tickets are $20.
“The major challenge for me in art is to keep under control the tyranny of a logical mind. The spirit that moves me is capricious, unruly and irreverent. Most of my work grows out of intuitive impulse–the rest gets underway by just playing.”
Mel and Dorothy Tanner worked with the same material, acrylic glass, in very different ways. Dorothy liked to have a lot of material around and then begin her construction. Mel Tanner always sketched first, often filling the sketches in with colored pencils so that they were very precise. The drawing(s) very closely resembled the completed sculpture.
Here are some examples of Mel Tanner’s sketches compared to the photos of the completed works:
Sketch of Visitor by Mel Tanner
Visitor by Mel Tanner
Sketch of One Two Three by Mel Tanner
One Two Three by Mel Tanner
Sketch of Post-Egyptian by Mel Tanner
Post-Eqyptian by Mel Tanner
Sketch of Island by Mel Tanner
Island by Mel Tanner
Mel Tanner sketches what will be a lighted wall for an installation
A lighted wall and ceiling installation by Mel Tanner
