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Neon Museum Exhibition at Muzeo in Anaheim

A solo neon installation at Muzeo Museum & Cultural Center, where commercial-grade sign fabrication became fine art, reworking the visual language of signage into an original gallery narrative. Neon Flamingo's founder, Dani Bonnet, was commissioned for a solo neon installation at Muzeo Museum & Cultural Center in Anaheim, a 25,000-square-foot institution housed in the city's original Carnegie Library. The exhibition placed hand-fabricated glass neon inside a museum context, reframing a medium built for storefronts and marquees as a vehicle for original visual storytelling.

From Commercial Craft to Fine Art

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Neon has always lived between craft and commerce. Skilled hands, built to sell. This installation took the same discipline behind a storefront sign, the glass bending, gas filling and color control, and pointed it at storytelling instead. No brand, no logo, no message to move product.

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The same hands handle a code-compliant commercial install and a museum piece, which is the part that took years to build. Repeatable precision holds up whether the work is headed for a storefront or a gallery wall.

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Why a Museum Installation Matters

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A solo installation inside an established cultural institution is validation a working sign shop rarely gets to earn. It says the fabrication coming out of the Echo Park studio holds up to curators, to an art-going public, and to an institution built to house significant work.

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Why This Project Matters

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The Muzeo installation shows that the studio behind storefront signs, business logos and film set pieces can also make original work at a museum level. Neon usually gets pressed into service selling something. It stands up fine on its own.

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Artist: Dani Bonnet
Venue: Muzeo Museum & Cultural Center, Anaheim, CA
Format: Solo installation

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The exhibition pieces were built in-house through our custom glass neon fabrication process.

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hello82 LA Neon Logo

A large-scale neon logo built into a base of vintage vinyl records for hello82's Los Angeles headquarters, now the office centerpiece where visiting K-pop artists perform and take photos, running for years with almost no issues. Neon Flamingo designed and fabricated a large-scale custom neon logo for hello82, a K-pop entertainment company, at their Los Angeles headquarters. The brief came with a specific creative vision: incorporate real vinyl records into the sign itself, grounding a modern neon logo in the physical history of recorded music.

OFF // On Exhibit

OFF//ON: a large-scale outdoor neon and mixed-media exhibition at the Hollywood Palladium, curated by Dani Bonnet in partnership with Pabst Blue Ribbon and the Museum of Neon Art, 15 Los Angeles artists, safely staged outdoors during COVID. In May 2021, Dani Bonnet curated OFF//ON, a large-scale neon and mixed-media exhibition staged on the window front of the historic Hollywood Palladium on Sunset Blvd., presented in partnership with Pabst Blue Ribbon, with support from the Museum of Neon Art. Free and open to the public, the show ran outdoors for a full week, letting visitors experience original neon and interactive art at a safe distance, in open air, during a period when indoor gatherings still weren't possible.

Vans x Dani Bonnet

A fully creative commission for Vans' "Off the Wall" campaign, Neon Flamingo's Dani Bonnet was given complete artistic freedom and a real production budget the moment COVID hit, resulting in "Electric American Eagle," a piece featured across national press and Vans' own campaign materials. Neon Flamingo's Dani Bonnet was commissioned by Vans for their "Off the Wall" creator campaign, a program built to fund artists working across a range of creative disciplines. The result was Electric American Eagle, an original neon sculpture combining the American bald eagle with wads of cash, built as commentary on money, power, and freedom in America.

Electric Winter

Electric Winter: Dani Bonnet's first curated art show, presented with Pabst Blue Ribbon at Innerspace Gallery in winter 2019, a sold-out night with a line around the block, a DJ set from Jerry Paper, and a full lineup of LA neon and mixed-media artists. In winter 2019, Dani Bonnet curated Electric Winter, a neon and mixed-media art exhibition presented in partnership with Pabst Blue Ribbon at Innerspace Gallery in Los Angeles. It was Dani's first time curating a show from the ground up, and the response exceeded anything anyone expected: a line stretched around the block to get in.

Bad Roman Lighting Design

A restaurant-wide commercial lighting commission for Bad Roman's Beverly Hills flagship, eight sculptural LED chandeliers, a signature illuminated centerpiece, and eight hand-blown helium neon sconces, delivered on an accelerated timeline other fabricators couldn't meet. Featured in Dezeen, Hospitality Design, and TrendHunter. Neon Flamingo was commissioned to design and fabricate the complete lighting program for Bad Roman's Beverly Hills flagship, a restaurant-wide build spanning sculptural chandeliers, a signature illuminated centerpiece, and hand-blown glass neon wall sconces, developed in close collaboration with GRT Architects, the Brooklyn-based studio behind the restaurant's interior design. The 3,570-square-foot space, occupying the former Palm Steakhouse site on North Canon Drive, has been widely covered as one of the most talked-about restaurant openings of the year, with the lighting singled out as central to the room's atmosphere.

The 818 Tucson Neon Sign Bookshelf Commission

Neon Flamingo designed and fabricated a sculptural bookshelf with a vintage roadside neon sign look for The 818, a 165-unit luxury student housing development near the University of Arizona, commissioned through Seattle-based art consultancy Parade Art.

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