Category: Mel Tanner

Review of the Tanners’ Lumonics Retrospective at MOA by Todd Siler

Todd Siler Luminous Art Inspiring Our Hearts-n-Minds To Dream With Wonder: Experiencing the Art of Mel and Dorothy Tanner Art Review by Todd SilerFebruary, 2017 When I first encountered the art universe of Mel and Dorothy Tanner in the current retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Outdoor Arts, my mind leaped “back to the future”. …

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Galactic Trio by Mel Tanner

Galactic Trio (1983) by Mel Tanner is one of the newest additions in the performance space at Lumonics, and can be seen at Lumonics Immersed on Saturday evenings and at the Immersive Jazz-Art Experience, hosted by Janine Santana on the last two Fridays of the month. Galactic Trio, a lighted wall sculpture, looks two-dimensional from …

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Colorado Matters Interview with Dorothy Tanner (2015)

In June 2015, Ryan Warner, host of Colorado Matters, interviewed 3 people in the arts: age 82, 92, and 102.Here are excerpts from the interview with then 92-year old Dorothy Tanner. “Sculptor Dorothy Tanner’s work is best seen in the dark. That’s because the 92-year-old works with light, using materials like plexiglass to bend and …

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How Triptic came into this world

In the mid-1970s, 2 students from Miami Beach High School, David Chesky and Bill Borkan, came to Lumonics after school one day to introduce themselves.  I thought of them as whiz kids. David played a Mini-Moog Synthesizer, and soon after we met him, composed some music for one of our Lumonics performances. He went on …

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