Mar 03
Happy to share our friend Shandearan Lea’s Instagram post from 2020 about Dorothy Tanner, a few months before Dorothy passed at the age of 97. You are also welcome to follow her insightful posts on Instagram @shandearanlea. Today is the first #motivationmonday of March and it also happens to be #internationalwomenshistorymonth. So what does …
Jan 21
From the Lumonics Archives, 2020: (thanks to Annie Geimer and Thadeous Mighell of Understudy) In appreciation of art writer Mary Grace Bernard for her article in DARIA about the Lumonics Mind Spa exhibit at #UnderstudyGallery. Mel Tanner, Paradigm, 1975, Plexiglas and LED lights. Image courtesy of Third Dune Productions. excerpt: Lumonics Mind …
Jan 14
From the Lumonics Archives (2017) thanks to Denver Westword “Hip couple Dorothy and Mel Tanner began exploring Plexiglas light sculpture back in the ’60s, inventing their own avant-garde genre while freely experimenting with what’s come to be known as “new media” on the modern front: refracted light, projections, music and electronic enhancements. Mel passed away …