Category: art

Lumonics: Continuing the legacy of luminaries Mel and Dorothy Tanner

  By KELLY HAYES kelly.hayes@gazette.com Jan 7, 2024   Surrounded by the sculptures of Lumonics late founders Dorothy and Mel Tanner, publicist and co-archivist Barry Raphael and Lumonics Studio and Lumonics Immersed creative director Marc Billard stand for a photo in the gallery used for the immersive light and sound show in Denver, Colo. (Timothy …

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Lumonics Then & Now

Photos (1974) of sections of the original Lumonics Light and Sound Theatre, Miami, FL that opened in 1969 and is now in Denver in its newest installation. This transformative total art experience that Dorothy and Mel Tanner originated provided a setting to release latent creative abilities and to stimulate powerful shifts in consciousness. Since Dorothy’s …

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Mary Corse of the Light and Space Movement

Mary Corse, born in 1945 in Berkeley, CA  “Nothing is static in the universe, so why make a static painting? It’s an unreality.”  “Painting, to me, has never been about the paint, but what the painting can make you feel.” “Art is the experience of our abstract truth and the experience of our human state …

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Lumonics: The Light Art of Dorothy & Mel Tanner (paperback)

The new edition of Lumonics: The Light Art of Dorothy & Mel Tanner is now available book cover The book is a chronicle of the Tanners’ art journey and the evolution of their art form, Lumonics, as “told” in photographs. Pages include exhibits including Meow Wolf, McNichols Civic Center Building, Denver International Airport, and Museum …

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