GLOW: Neon & Light opens in the Akron Art Museum’s Arnstein Galleries on September 21. Showcasing artists who use analog materials like glass, mirrors, light bulbs, and neon tubes, the galleries will be filled with spectacular and immersive works. Although every work of art in the show will include an element of light, the conceptual ideas and visual styles will range from minimalist to maximalist. Some artists in the exhibition juxtapose lights with different materials, like wood, fractured glass, mirrors, and even the interiors of VHS tape cassettes. Some bend their own glass to create neon objects, some work with special manufacturers, and others recycle commercial neon and found objects.
This group exhibition will feature works by Sarah Blood, Jeffry Chiplis, Mona Hatoum, Keith Lemley, Iván Navarro, Keith Sonnier, and others. GLOW: Neon and Light contains one artwork with bright, flashing lights and intermittently loud sound that may cause discomfort and/or seizures for those with photosensitivity, high sensory needs, and/or epilepsy.