Tag: light art

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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Light and Space Art Movement

Information courtesy of The Art Story websiteI selected examples of several of the artists’ works identified with the Movement Ethereal and atmospheric, yet often equally geometric and analytic, the experiences of the Light and Space Movement present a striking paradox to the viewer, one that requires active, and often multi-sensory, participation. There is no single defining aesthetic …

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Light Artist Olafur Eliasson, born Aug 23, 1967

  The works of artist Olafur Eliasson explore the relevance of art in the world at large. Born in 1967, Eliasson grew up in Iceland and Denmark, where he studied from 1989 to 1995 at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. In 1995, he moved to Berlin and founded Studio Olafur Eliasson, which today …

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Postscript is in the Meow Wolf Permanent Art Collection

Lumonics is honored to have been one of the contributing artists at Meow Wolf Denver’s Convergent Station. The exhibit in The Galleri showcased the work of the late light art pioneers, Dorothy and Mel Tanner, and ran from Sept 17, 2021 to Feb. 20, 2022.   Postscript (1991) by Mel Tanner is now in the permanent art collection …

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