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Welcome to the Lumonics Light & Sound Gallery website. 
Lumonics is among the first and longest-running light art projects in the U.S. 

The Gallery is open during events, or by appointment.
75 light sculptures are on display.
11 are limited editions.

In Remembrance of the Founders of Lumonics

Artists Dorothy Tanner and Mel Tanner

Dorothy Tanner
(Jan. 30, 1923 – July 23, 2020)

Mel Tanner
(Sept. 26, 1925 – Oct. 21, 1993)

 

Lumonics Immersed

panoramic view of performance space

panoramic view of performance space

Imagine stepping into a world where​ light sculptures, video art projection, and music converge to relax your body and engage your mind and emotions.

Light and space artists Dorothy and Mel Tanner originated this highly-acclaimed multisensory experience in 1969, and it continues to evolve.

“Lumonics is such an incredible collection. They are part of the Crown Jewels of Denver.”
– Justin Stucey, Walt Disney Imagineering

Fridays and Saturdays 
8 pm to 10 pm

Tickets:
From $15-$28.52
by advance tickets only

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The passing of Dorothy Tanner in 2020 and the passing of Barbara Billard in August of 2023 have reduced the number in our art collective from 7 members to 2.  As the remaining members, Marc Billard and Barry Raphael, we have been part of this incredible art project since 1972. With the help of our friends and supporters, we are embarking on a new journey: the Lumonics Legacy Project. This endeavor aims to ensure the continuation of Lumonics and preserve the remarkable works created by our late founders, Mel and Dorothy Tanner.

 

Lumonics Light & Sound Gallery: A Legacy of Light, Sound, and Immersive Art
Article on the past, present, and future of Lumonics
by Caroline Margaret

 


Lumonics School of Light Art

Lighted cube at the Lumonics School of Light Art in Denver

Lumonics Mind Spas 

Lumonics greatly appreciates receiving a grant from The Denver Theatre District Microgrant Program. We are using the funds to present field trips for Title 1 Schools.

Limited Editions

The Lumonics Team has selected 11 light sculptures by Dorothy and Mel Tanner’s as limited editions for the Lumonics Legacy Project. Visit the Gallery webpage.

 

 

Our latest edition of the book Lumonics: The Light Art of Dorothy & Mel Tanner is now available. It chronicles the Tanners’ art journey and the evolution of their art form, Lumonics, as “told” through more than 120 photographs.
$20 

Front cover of Lumonics art bookFront cover of Lumonics art book

 

Public Art

 Lumonics was honored to have the opening exhibit in The Galleri at Meow Wolf Denver’s Convergence Station that is devoted to Colorado artists.

 

Postscript by Mel Tanner is part of the permanent collection of Meow Wolf

Postscript by Mel Tanner is part of the permanent collection of Meow Wolf 

 

2018 Mayor's Award for Arts & Culture Innovation Award

Dorothy Tanner received the Denver Mayor’s Award for Innovation in the Arts when she was 95, two years before she passed.

 

Yess + Love = Bliss by Dorothy Tanner

created for the opening of the Lumonics Mind Spa at the McNichols Civic Center Building in 2018

Yess + Love = Bliss
by Dorothy Tanner

 

You can find Lumonics listed in the KAYAK Denver Travel Guide:
Arts and Performing Arts

 
 

Rediscovering Norman Zammitt, a 1960s Visionary of the Light and Space Movement (Artnet.com)

Archive photo of Norman Zammitt in the studio. Courtesy of Karma Gallery   Excerpts from the Article by Annikka Olsen, Galleries Editor (Artnet): “Roughly 60 years since Zammitt’s first exhibition in New York, a new solo show at Karma gallery brings to light two of the artist’s most significant bodies of work. American art in …

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The Lumonics Gallery is Now Open!

  The Light Art of Dorothy and Mel Tanner We are happy to announce that the Lumonics Light & Sound Galleryand art studio is now open at events, or by appointment. Lumonics is among the first andlongest-running light art projects in the U.S. The Gallery displays 75 light sculpturefrom a rotating collection of over 200artworks by the late Dorothy and Mel Tanner. …

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We invite you to enter the Lumonics Portal.

We invite you to enter the Lumonics Portal. Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pmwww.lumonics.net/immersed

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Divine Mine by Mel Tanner

Now on display in the Gallery at Lumonics: Divine Mine (1968) by Mel Tanner, one of the early light sculptures that was in the original Lumonics Light and Sound Theatre in Miami. The Gallery is open on event nights and also by appointment.

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