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“REDEFINING NEON LEGACY”
Museum of Glass, Tacoma
February 11th - Oct. 2023
Carissa Grace “Comforter”
Past shows:
Courtesy of artist, Megan Stelljes
january 2020 | Loveland Museum
Loveland Museum
We are so excited to have been invited be the Loveland Museum for a She Bends exhibition featuring a wide selection of She Bends artist both nationally & internationally. 12 artists traveled to the opening week to participate in live bending demos, an artist talk and a film screening featuring one of our She Bends members.
january 25 - May 24, 2020
Courtesy of CRU Creative
November 2019 | San Francisco
Mission Pop Up
Our November San Francisco edition was a big success, highlighting select California She Bends artists and focusing on programming such as our salon dinner, neon demos, film screening, & panel talk.
We worked with amazing womxn across music, culinary, writing and craft industries and welcomed an electrified crowd night after night.
November 13 - 24, 2019
Courtesy The Midway
April 2018 | San Francisco
The Midway Creative Complex
32 neon artists with over 75 works in their 2000 square foot space. Programming alongside the exhibition included bending demonstrations, on-site neon bending workshops, salon dinners and music events.
April - October 2018
Courtesy Var West
January 2019 | Milwaukee
Var West Gallery
23 artists exhibiting address a variety of topics from social constructs, language to current events. Glass tubes of pulsating electricity will be bent into abstract shapes, written phrases, or woven through a sculptural installation. Each bender transcends the tradition of the commercial neon sign while masterfully maintaining the delicate craft and science of neon, an art that dates back to the 1850s. The women of She Bends bring a resurgence to the medium while claiming a space for themselves and others in the trajectory and rich history of neon art.
January 19th - Feb 24th, 2019
Photo by Brock Brake
September 2017 | Los Angeles
The Museum of Neon Art
She Bends: Women in Neon at the Museum of Neon Art in Glendale offers 29 women artists working in rich, glowing, lustrous colors, in abstract and figurative forms, in curves and lines and varying textures of light and types of gasses.
These are not mass produced works, nor are they devoted to the edification of an entity or business; rather the artists are working in a specific medium to create a diverse selection of artworks both ethereal and grounded. They come from the U.S. and from international locations such as Australia, Argentina, Japan, the U.K., and Germany.