LUMINOUS BEGINNINGS commemorates the Museum of Neon Art’s 20th anniversary year with a glimpse of luminous art created before the museum’s inception and contains an essay by artist Cork Marcheschi.
100% cotton shirt
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$20.00
Our popular MONA-branded shirt tells the world that the wearer has supreme good taste in science, art and apparel! In this accurate graphic of the periodic table of elements, the “noble gases” (which are the building blocks of the glowing tubes we call “neon”) are highlighted in color and scaled to reflect their importance… to us. Carbon? So what. Oxygen? Meh. Give us Krypton and Argon any day!
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$25.00
CELEBRATE the historic lighting of Mona’s DIVER, which occurred on June 26, 2014! Our high quality all-cotton shirt depicts the classic neon sculpture (which sits atop our new Glendale building) in all its glow. The date on the left sleeve means this shirt is destined to become a collector’s item. THE LIGHTING of the DIVER signals that MONA’s move to Glendale is in the home stretch… we have a beautiful building, now *all* we have to do is build out the interior!
Willem Volkersz taught for 18 years at the Kansas City Art Institute, then became Director of the School of Art at Montana State University. Volkersz began “drawing” with neon from 1969 and continues today as an artist active in the medium. The catalog offers a glimpse into his vast body of work and the ideas behind his imagery.
DOMESTIC NEON by Willem Volkersz $5.00
Excerpt from Lisa Mahar’s introduction: “Inevitably, art that incorporates light brings up religious connotations. For centuries, light has symbolized a cosmic consciousness, a higher entity. Spiritual connections to light are found both in religious paintings, which often include light as a primary element, and stained glass windows that cast colored light into church spaces…. Even though Brugger and Schmid’s work focuses on the light and its effect on its surroundings rather than the signs that provide the illumination, the color of the light reveals important historical and cultural differences.”
PRAYERS by Brugger & Schmid $7.00
Excerpt: “Neon began to lose out to plastic in the 1950s along with Los Angeles’ reputation as a paradisiacal outdoor health spa. At the same time, the city’s air, traffic and crowding got radically worse and the truck farms, Pacific Electric and LARY trolley cars disappeared. The glowing surface so lustily celebrated by the boosters was tarnishing fast. A half-century down the line and the noir sensibility has taken root. The old broken neon signs hanging on their closed buildings remind us that everything is transitional.”
NEON NOIR by Tom Zimmerman $7.00
Written by photographer - historian Tom Zimmerman. Browsing through the California State Archives, Zimmerman came across these stunning night photos taken by Mott shortly before he drowned attempting to save his son in a fishing accident. Since Mott’s death his work has been virtually unknown until Zimmerman’s rediscovery. For people who love classic black and white photography, Los Angeles architecture at its Art Deco best, never-before-seen storefront signs depicting neon in its heyday, this is a must for your library and imagination.
This small gem of a catalog follows the magic of Albright’s work as it unfolded in a natural progression beginning in the1950s. With a background in electrical engineering and radio, his foray into the art world began with photography when he opened the first photo gallery in Venice; this was followed by a decade of fabricating welded stainless steel sculptures; and finally his immersion into the world of neon and plasma. Albright is best known for his development of the Plasma Globe, of which a half million were sold from the mid 80s to 90s, but his fine art is superb.
LARRY ALBRIGHT: A RETROSPECTIVE $35.00
Celebrating 30 Years of Exhibitions
27″ x 9″
$20.00
THE ART OF THE GLOW! Produced in a limited edition to celebrate MONA’s watershed 2011 show MONA@30, this satin finish poster on heavy cardstock is a sure bet to brighten any room. Vignettes of past MONA shows and artwork jumble in a grid above the signature image of the sign fabricated just for the exhibition.
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