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 26
12 Men (1974) by Mel TannerWhole & Its Parts One of our first restoration projects after Dorothy Tanner passed in 2020 was the 12 Men by Mel Tanner. Some of them needed some repair, and we converted them all to LED from incandescent. They are now in the performance space ( we only have room …
Oct 23
Mel Tanner created what became a series of wall pieces that could be thought of as star maps or constellations. Like so many of Mel’s wall sculptures, the art works looked flat from a distance but as you got closer, there was so much depth. Here are photos of 4 of these Star Maps, created …
Sep 10
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 …