LIMITED EDITION SERIES BY DOROTHY TANNER (1923-2020) We have chosen Merlin’s Wand as the first limited edition offered for donations to the Lumonics Legacy Project. front and back of Merlin’s Wand are different as shown in the video Merlin’s Wand by Dorothy Tanner 2007 Size: 23″h …
Tag: Mel Tanner
Feb 05
“Hard to compare or judge, comprehend even, because it has no peers.”
As Lumonics enters its 56th year, we are posting archival quotes from over the years: “Difficult to describe, beautiful and unusual, the Lumonics Light and Sound Theatre is hard to compare or judge, comprehend even, because it has no peers. It is different, something unto itself, and not entirely of this world. That, in an …
Jan 21
From the Lumonics Archives, 2020: Lumonics Mind Spa at Understudy
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
Dorothy Tanner (from the archives)
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 …