Tag: Mel Tanner

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Hi Everyone!  Hope the new year is going well! Here is some of what’s going on at Lumonics. Culture Hopping with the Biennial of the Americas   Lumonics truly enjoyed hosting the January Culture Hop of the Biennial of the Americas which is based in Denver, CO. Attendees were very appreciative of the light art …

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Pre-Lumonics: Post-World War II

After serving in combat in WW II, Mel Tanner enrolled at the Brooklyn Museum Art School under the new G.I. Bill. This photo was on the cover of the 1950-51 School Catalog. Max Beckmann (foreground), Mel Tanner (far right). Mel was a student in Mr. Beckmann’s painting class. Max Beckmann died in 1950. Mel Tanner …

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Rediscovering Norman Zammitt, a 1960s Visionary of the Light and Space Movement (Artnet.com)

Archive photo of Norman Zammitt in the studio. Courtesy of Karma Gallery   Excerpts from the Article by Annikka Olsen, Galleries Editor (Artnet): “Roughly 60 years since Zammitt’s first exhibition in New York, a new solo show at Karma gallery brings to light two of the artist’s most significant bodies of work. American art in …

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The Lumonics Gallery is Now Open!

  The Light Art of Dorothy and Mel Tanner We are happy to announce that the Lumonics Light & Sound Galleryand art studio is now open at events, or by appointment. Lumonics is among the first andlongest-running light art projects in the U.S. The Gallery displays 75 light sculpturefrom a rotating collection of over 200artworks by the late Dorothy and Mel Tanner. …

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