Dorothy Tanner

(1923-2020)
born in Bronx, New York. The major challenge for me in art is to keep under control the tyranny of a logical mind. The spirit that moves me is capricious, unruly and irreverent. Most of my work grows out of intuitive impulse; the rest gets going by just playing around. My intention is to create objects (painting, sculpture, fountains, furniture) with light as an intrinsic element that influences and alters the environment it is in. How we feel, what we see, is largely the result of the color vibrations that envelop us. Light can be likened to a great magician, a master illusionist with the power to create, define, and solidify, or leave in shadow what we believe to be real.

Education: Educational Alliance, New York, NY (Chaim Gross, instructor)Brooklyn Museum Art School, Brooklyn NY (Milton Hebald, Gabor Peterdi, instructors)

• June 2, 2020  –Sept. 24, 2020,  Thornton Arts & Culture Center, Thornton, CO, Lumonics Mind Spa: Thornton
• Sept 14, 2019   – Feb 21, 2020,  7 Healing Stars, Black Hawk, CO
• Nov 8-Dec 31 The Storeroom, Denver, CO, "From the Beginning: A Lumonics Light Art Installation"
• Sept 2019  Gilpin Arts, Central City, CO
• June-August, 2019  Installation of light art in windows, Central City, CO 
• Jan-July 2018  McNichols Civic Center Building, Denver, CO,
Lumonics Mind Spa:  Stretching the Body, Mind, and Spirit
• Jan-March 2017 Museum of Outdoor Arts, Englewood, CO,
Then and Now: A Retrospective of Light-Based Sculpture by Dorothy and Mel Tanner
• August, 2016-May 2017 The Scarlet,  Central City, CO,  The Lumonics Mind Spa
• Oct-Dec 2016  Museum of Outdoor Arts, Englewood, CO,  Reinventing the Image
• June, 2015 Lakewood Cultural Center, Lakewood, CO,  Creatures From Left Field
• Feb-May 2014 Art Gallery at Denver International Airport,  A Light Journey
• June 2011-Feb 2012 Museum of Outdoor Arts, Englewood, CO,  Light Supply
• Nov 2010-Jan 2011, Gallery 910, Denver, CO Best of Santa Fe Drive Show
• Oct-Nov, 2010: VERTIGO Art Space, Denver, CO, The Light Fantastic
• Nov 2009 Union Station Fund Raiser, Denver, CO
• Augu...