'Plugged In: Art and Electric Light' shines a fresh beam on iconoclastic ideas.
"An Evening in Focus: Plugged In" will help launch the exhibit with live music, activities, and more; Sept. 21 from 4 to 6:30 p.m.
Artists have worked in all sorts of eye-catching areas for as long as art has been made, but the introduction of electricity opened remarkable new worlds in the realms of creative expression.The light bulb first lit up rooms, but, soon after, it was giving glow to all sorts of whimsical works; neon would soon capture the fancy of imaginative art-makers, and fluorescence, too.
"These inherently interdisciplinary objects were forged through artistic and scientific innovation," reads a message on the museum site. "Artists collaborated with clockmakers, neon and glass benders and electrical engineers from Pasadena's own Jet Propulsion Laboratory to explore the aesthetic, conceptual and affective possibilities of electric light."Want to find new things to do in Los Angeles? The Scene's lifestyle stories have you covered. Here's your go-to source on where the fun is across SoCal and for the weekend.
Walter Miller Askin , Polyplanograph , 1970, polyvinyl decals on tinted plexiglass in wood case, electric 23 x 21-3/4 x 12 in. , Norton Simon Museum, Gift of Horace and Vicki Solaini Baker, © Walter M. Askin
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