Visual Arts
Light Supply, Museum of Outdoor Arts

Light-focused exhibits are all the rage at galleries this summer, but the Museum of Outdoor Arts is mixing the theme up a bit for its 30th anniversary. Alongside light sculptures and projections by 13 local and national artists, the exhibit features an original soundscape created by Grammy Award-winning engineer Mickey Houlihan.

Light Supply Daily from Sat., June 25 until Sat., February 25

Let There Be Light
Susan Froyd
Artists from the metro area and across the nation will all be represented in Light Supply, a new offering opening today at the Museum of Outdoor Arts, which joins other local museums (the spring exhibit Blink! at the DAM and the MCA’s current show, Another Victory Over the Sun) in celebrating the use of light in art. Light Supply will naturally have its own personality, as does MOA director Cynthia Madden Leitner’s private labor of love in the Englewood City Center.

“It just seems to be the theme of the year,” says the museum’s Tim Vacca of the exhibit, for which 90 percent of the venue’s lighting has been blocked to better showcase the glowing sculptures and wall pieces by such artists as Collin Parson, Jen Lewin, Andy Miller, Dorothy and Mel Tanner and others. But, he adds, the overall effect will be inviting: “You’ll see the glowing lights and be drawn into the gallery.” Or outdoors: MOA Wizard-in-Residence Lonnie Hanzon also created a gouache billboard installation with a video element that will light up the museum’s sculpture garden every evening.

Light Supply opens today at the MOA, 1000 Englewood Parkway, with a reception from 5 to 9 p.m., and continues through next February. For details, go to www.moaonline.org or call 303-806-0444.

The light sculptures of Dorothy Tanner and Mel Tanner have been selected to be in The Museum of Outdoor Arts (MOA)'s exhibit, Light Supply.

Exhibition Dates: June 25, 2011 — February 25, 2012
Opening reception: June 25, 2011

Museum of Outdoor Arts
1000 Englewood Parkway
#2-230
Englewood, CO 80110

On June 25th MOA will open Light Supply, a multi-media exhibition incorporating the talents of 10 artists working with light and sound. Light Supply will feature local, and national artists and a variety of works ranging from light sculpture and projections, to immersive indoor and outdoor light environments. Light Supply will also include an outdoor installation in the Englewood sculpture garden corridor, which will run through the end of the year to usher in the third annual Hudson Holiday light show.

Light Supply is a synthesis of light and sound and will feature the work of artists Corwin Bell, Virginia Folkestad, Lonnie Hanzon, Ali Hossaini, Jen Lewin, Andy Miller, Collin Parson, Charles Ross, Daihei Shibata, and Dorothy Tanner. Grammy award winner, Mickey Houlihan of Wind over the Earth will create an original soundscape for the remastered Color of Sound exhibition in MOA´s sound gallery.

MOA has been exploring the use of light as an art medium for almost a decade, and will celebrate 30 years of art in process with this inventive show.

excerpted from news release

Dorothy Tanner's luminous sculptures light up the night at Vertigo
by Ben Dayton, Denver Westword Blogs
Sat., Oct. 16 2010

It was third Friday-time again last night, and at Vertigo Art Space, that means artist reception time. Though not as crazy as the first Friday gallery openings on Sante Fe, third Friday receptions often provide a more intimate and focused evening for art fans. Last night, Dorothy Tanner hosted her solo show, The Light Fantastic from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. at 960 Santa Fe Drive.

Tanner's free-standing sculptures and wall hangings use acrylic and LED lights as main ingredients to create luminous experiences for the viewer. Of her work she says, "I create environments that make people high, which I like since getting high has been one of my principle occupations in life."

Of course, she's right at home here in the Mile High City. Tanner recommends viewing the artworks in the evening so as to "experience the effect of light on the walls, people and the total space."

The show will be on view through November 13th, and if you didn't get a chance to make it out last night to say hi, make sure you at least cruise down Sante Fe drive, between 9th and 10th avenues one of these evening soon to catch a glimpse of the glowing sculptures through Vertigo's large front windows. It will be a sight to see.

For more information visit www.vertigoartspace.com

Transformative Light
by Zack Kopp
Mighty Mercury

Lumonics Light and Sound Gallery, 800 E. 73 Avenue, #11, in Denver, Colorado, is the latest embodiment of a theme initiated decades ago by artists Mel and Dorothy Tanner.