I am currently participating in an exhibition titled Call It What It Is: A Neon Show Of Banned Words. It visualizes the growing list of words that are being flagged by the Trump administration and scrubbed from government documents and websites. It is quite an extensive list, and serves as Read more…
Before we get too far into 2024, I want to take a look back at some highlights of 2023, the biggest one of which was the trip I took to Casper Wyoming to attend the opening of Neon In The High Desert, at the Nicolaysen Art Museum. It was an Read more…
Do you remember tracing your hand when you were a kid to draw a turkey? That was the inspiration for this guy. I made him a few years ago at the suggestion of my husband, and it’s one of my favorite window pieces that I’ve made. I tried tracing my Read more…
Just finished up this fun little piece. I bent the neon shape out of 8mm uncoated blacklight tubing. It lives inside a box frame that I built, then lined the inside with a repurposed blacklight poster. That part was a bit tricky but it turned out alright.
I’ve been busy over the past month preparing for a couple of events that are somewhat related in that they involve my window neon. Most recently was getting ready for an art show at Space 1026 in Philadelphia. They are a gallery with a focus on screenprinting but have rotating Read more…
I recently finished up this small grouping of neon pieces, which I am calling Neon Moonflowers. They are a combination of neon tubing and vintage light shades. The first one of these I ever made was back in 2018. I really loved the look of these and intended on making Read more…
I’m part of an artist group called the Philadelphia Dumpster Divers. I’ve only been a member for about 4 years, but the group was started 30 years ago. One of the founding members is my friend Len Davidson, who also opened the Neon Museum of Philadelphia last year. The Dumpster Read more…
Last week I finished this for James Oliver Gallery here in Philadelphia. James bought a small neon from me a few years ago and when he reached out to me to ask about making his logo in neon I was super excited. Some designs really lend themselves to neon, and Read more…
A past client of mine recently asked me to duplicate this famous album cover by the band Big Star. Here are some photos of that process….. I’m not the first neon artist to do this, so I wanted to do something a little extra with mine and thought using this Read more…
Hello any readers who may have happened to stumble their way to this blog post. 🙂 I see that I haven’t posted here in 6 months! Well, that’s all about to change as I am hereby committing to posting an entry here at least once a week. Most of my Read more…