Terry Allen, Laumeier U-ME-UM, 1998

neon light in Plexiglas case

Inspired by his family, music and his love of the open road, artist and songwriter Terry Allen uses sculpture as a window into the human condition, and a search for the truth of human experience. Allen’s Laumeier U-ME-UM, 1998, kindly welcomes guests in the arched entry way to the museum. Allen’s interest in the combination of language and light and the fusion of nature and artifact is both dark and playful. As the letters pulse in red, green and blue, the 1917 estate house glows like doorway to an LA nightclub as the letters alternate in a poetry of motion and implied sound. Placed in contrast to the domestic architecture, the text surges with power and exuberance, promoting the indoor galleries as the staging ground for our exhbitions, events and performances.

Laumeier Sculpture Park Commission with funds from Emerson Electric   

Location: Museum Circle