Oct 29
Photos of Dorothy Tanner (1923-2020) working in the studio at Lumonics. “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.”
Oct 29
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 …
Oct 27
One day in 1976, Bill Pinella, the sales rep for one of the companies we bought our acrylic glass (plexiglass) from, came by with two off- white geometric shapes. They were a different kind of plastic in the polycarbonate family. Bill said the company doesn’t know what to do with them, and thought that Dorothy …
Sep 10
August 30, 2022 “Lumonics Among the Longest-Running Light Art Studios in the U.S. Lumonics is among the first and longest-running light art studios in the U.S., originating in Miami, FL at the same time as the Light and Space Movement …