Tag: Dorothy Tanner

Sketch and Sculpt

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 …

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Lollipop has quite a history at Lumonics

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 …

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Article about Lumonics in Art & Object Magazine

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 …

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Thanks to Westword for writing about Lumonics Immersed’ anniversary

    Thanks to the  Denver Westword staff for writing about our one-year anniversary of Lumonics Immersed that we had on September 3rd. Lumonics Immersed One-Year Anniversary Saturday, September 3, 8 to 10:30 p.m. Lumonics Light & Sound Gallery, 800 East 73rd Avenue, #11 Lumonics Studio, immersive before anyone knew what to call it, has …

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