Daily What?! What’s a Classical Facade and Neon Art Doing on a Waste Plant in NYC?

The last thing we expect to see on a Department of Sanitation building is classical architecture, much like yesterday’s Greek temple as Manhattan Mini Storage.

Stephen Antonakos Pioneering Greek American Neon Artist Dies Age 87

The Greek/American sculptor Stephen Antonakos whose pioneering neon work is held by MoMa the Whitney and the Guggenheim museums has died in New York. He was 87.

Antonakos's work with neon since 1960 has lent the medium new perceptual and formal meanings. His use of spare, complete and incomplete geometric forms has ranged from direct 3-dimensional interior installations to painted canvases, Walls, the well-known back-lit Panels with painted or gold-leafed surfaces, and the Rooms and Chapels. Throughout, he has conceived work in relation to its site — its scale, proportions, and character — and to the space that it shares with the viewer. He calls his art, "real things in real spaces," intending it to be seen without reference to anything outside the immediate visual and kinetic experience. Since the late 1970s he has made large scale Public Works with the same concerns plus the inevitably broader engagement of space and auxiliary light outdoors. Colored pencil drawings on paper and vellum, often in series, have been an equally rich practice since the beginning. He has also made Packages, Artist's Books, and Reliefs of white wood and of silver. There have been over 100 one-person shows including a recent 50-year retrospective seen in Greece and the United States, more than 250 group shows, and over 50 Public Works installed in the United States, Europe, and Japan.

Dragon Neon: Saving a Hollywood Icon

 http://www.nbclosangeles.com/entertainment/the-scene/Dragon-Neon-Saving-a-Hollywood-Icon-220554011.html

 

  Remember the Grauman's Chinese Theatre dragons? The Museum of Neon Art has a campaign on to fund the restoration of the West-facing dragon, which will be displayed at MONA's future Glendale home.

Artist's Statement: Meryl Pataky on the Joy and Wonder of Neon

 http://blogs.sfweekly.com/exhibitionist/2013/07/artists_statement_meryl_pataky.php

 

20 Incredible Artists Using Neon

http://www.complex.com/art-design/2013/07/neon-artists/

Iconic artist lights up York gallery

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A big Hi to Roadhouserelics.com

Thanks to roadhouserelics.com for waking me up .I have been so tied up in a project I have missed a lot of post on the blog .
We all love the work from Roadhouse Relics the Austin, Texas-based gallery of the neon artist Todd Sanders.  Fantastic                   www.roadhouserelics.com

 

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Neon Art Show will illuminate Colfax

 

 

Photos: The Collection's Light Up the Night Neon Art Show will illuminate Colfax - Denver - Arts - Show and Tell

NEON MUZEUM

Poland's unique story of neon light in the Cold War era | Port Magazine - Part 1

The Light Fantastic

When neon was the new new thing.

 If you’ve flown through O’Hare on United you might have walked through the tunnel connecting Concourses B and C, with its abstract neon patterns on the ceiling that change in time with the music. I think of it as the “disco tunnel,” and it always makes me smile as I pull my case behind me under the glowing canopy. But it shows neon used as a purely decorative form, a long way from its high point as an advertising medium. Flickering Light, Christoph Ribbat’s intriguing history of neon, explores neon’s use in art, its value in advertising, and its cultural legacy.

In 1923, the first neon signs in Los Angeles belonged to Earle Anthony, who paid Claude $24,000 for twin orange-and-blue signs that read PACKARD to promote his auto dealership. They immediately caused traffic problems as people stopped to wonder at these illuminations, but within four years neon had become commonplace. It was on the East Coast that neon first came into its own. The 1930s were the high point for neon creations in New York City, many built by Artkraft Strauss, who also created the New Year’s Eve ball drop in Times Square. In 1933 real steam rose from the neon sign for A&P Coffee, and the cup released a coffee aroma to passers-by. Another showed an illuminated bottle of Bromo-Seltzer pouring into a glass. In 1941 the Camel sign arrived, showing a man blowing smoke rings (made of steam). The Camel man lasted for 24 years (although his face was repainted, making him a GI, a war pilot, or a civilian, at different times).

Volatile Light exhibition to dazzle at the Harris Museum and Art Gallery

 

A new immersive art installation at the Harris Museum is promising to delight families during the summer holidays.
Previous visitors to Volatile Light have described the exhibition as “a fabulous factory of fireflies” and “like being in a shower of tiny comets.”
The sound-scape is made up of a series of distorted noises from peculiar scientific experiments such as boiling mud triggered by the movement of the sculptures.

i Light to return to Marina Bay in March

 

SINGAPORE - i Light Marina Bay 2014, Asia's first and only sustainable light art festival, returns next year from March 7 to 30.
The theme for the third edition of the festival is "Light+HeART".
i Light Marina Bay 2014 aims to engage people through sustainable light art installations that are thought-provoking and inspiring yet 'light-hearted'.
The upcoming edition is therefore about creating unique, happy and heartfelt installations to delight the audience while bringing home the sustainability message.
Organised by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), the festival will present up to 30 light art installations around Marina Bay.

James Turrell's Light Art Installation Opens in Las Vegas

 James Turrell might be an alien -- or at least knows something about the universe that the rest of us don't. He likes to say, "It's possible to gather light that's older than our solar system." And so, Turrell is finally having his well-deserved moment after 50 years of practicing his light-based art. Pick a city in the USA, and chances are there is a Turrell on display -- and in the past month, institutions in New York, Los Angeles and Houston, have opened up major surveys or retrospectives for the public to experience the totality of Turrell. The Guggenheim has unveiled its Aten Reign, the largest site-specific installation the museum has ever seen; LACMA has 11 original light works that nearly didn't get completed on time, and Houston is exhibiting 12 works from their permanent collection, seven of which have never been seen before.

Artist investigated after shining Kim Dotcom “light art” on US Embassy

 

A German artist may now potentially face criminal charges in Germany after he projected a huge image onto the walls of the United States Embassy in Berlin last Sunday.

The image was of fellow German Kim Dotcom, the embattled founder of Megaupload, along with the phrase “United Stasi of America,” referring to the secret police of former East Germany. Oliver Bienkowski videoed the event and set the video to a song that Dotcom had previously recorded, entitled “Mr. President," which includes lines like: “What about free speech, Mr. President?”