The Museum of Neon Art

In the late 1970s the neon sign industry had been dying for 25 years. Many colors of glass were out of production, new tube benders were not being trained, and wrecking balls across the country were felling historic neon signs at an alarming rate. At the same time a few artists had begun working in neon and other electric media to create fine art that wary museum and gallery curators were afraid to exhibit. In 1981 neon artist Lili Lakich with the help of Richard Jenkins, who restored theater marquees, founded the Museum of Neon Art. Their purpose was to provide a permanent exhibition space for artists to show and the public to see electric fine art and to preserve for future generations the artifacts of American culture that the beautifully designed commerical neon signs and marquees are. [read more]

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Lucy Orta
NEXUS ARCHITECTURE

Nexus Architecture/Collective Wear is one of the most emblematic designs of Lucy Orta's ongoing projects. More symbolic than potentially “useful”, Collective Wear is made up of outfits that superficially resemble space-suits - or those white, head-to-toe costumes worn by Greenpeace activists during anti-nuclear protests. They are linked together by detachable “umbilical” structures and can be worn, hypothetically, by hundreds or thousands of people joined together in a row (up till now 30 people have been linked together in South Africa, the U.S.A., Mexico, Bolivia and elsewhere). [read more]

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