Magic was Afoot, 2014-2015
Houston Zoo Lights, 2012 – 2018
Houston Zoo Lights was an ongoing production created and installed by Hanzon studios for the Houston Zoo. Sponsored by TXU Energy, it has been running every year since its inception in 2012 and has grown in magnitude each year. In 2016, Zoo Lights was the largest holiday light show in the nation and drawing the largest audience of any show of its kind. It combines the majesty of the animal kingdom with an emphasis on conservation and a sense of wonder the whole family can enjoy together. Features of the show include; a lighted castle, miniature village complete with working model trains, holiday disco, animatronic zebra, luminous garden, 30′ Christmas tree hung with hand-made ornaments, lighted plant and animal sculptures, a bedazzled art car, and countless other surprising and delightful creations, all designed and crafted in the Hanzon studio.
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Interior vitrine displays. Washington D.C. Keinan Ashkenazi
Cabinet of Curiosities & Impossibilities, 2010
Original cabinets dated from the 16th century and were entire rooms of specimens. The most famous, best documented cabinets of rulers and aristocrats, members of the merchant class, and early practitioners of science formed collections that were the precursors to the museum. In the Cabinet of Curiosities & Impossibilities, MOA seeks to recreate the wonder and contemplation once aroused in the 19th century cabinets. Located in the Englewood indoor gallery of the Museum of Outdoor Arts.
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1958 Cadillac designed and fabricated to promote Hudson Holiday at the Hudson Gardens & Events Center.
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Immersive installation of 15 acre light show at the Hudson Gardens & Event Center.
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Bronze Puppet Theatre located in Marjorie Park in Greenwood Village, Colorado.
Emry Gweldig’s Wondrous Keep, 2008
Keeper’s Mandala, 2008
Glass, metal and lighting entryway at the Museum of Outdoor Arts
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The title of this chandelier is in honor of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a French Jesuit priest, paleontologist, and philosopher who discovered Peking Man. Chardin specifically conceived the idea of Noosphere. The Noosphere is represented by the geometric platonic solids imagery at the top of the chandelier, and evolves in to the highly organic shapes found at the bottom. The chandelier is made of steel, antique Italian chandelier parts, and contemporary glass pieces that have been cold worked, sand blasted, slumped, draped and torch worked. The chandelier is lit with small LEDs in the antique portion of the work. It is approximately thirteen feet at its widest point and descending from the ceiling close to forty feet.
The antique chandelier was discovered by Marjorie and Cynthia Madden on a trip to Italy in 1982, and remained in storage until being incorporated in to this new work. The Chandelier Chardin was designed by Lonnie Hanzon and fabricated by Bella Glass.
From the Museum of Outdoor Arts
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