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Spirit House Shows (2023)
A spirit house is a shrine to the protective spirit of a place, primarily found in Southeast Asia. Artist Ben Livingston brings the spirit house tradition to Art Center Waco with his exhibit “Spirit Houses, Ghosts, and Memory.
Texas Standard (2022)
Ben Livingston in front of his neon mural. Bret Brookshire C/O Austin Chronicle
An iconic Austin neon installation lost its home 14 years ago, but now it’s found a new one
There’s new life for one of the city’s quirkiest, most-loved pieces – and its odd little backstory starts with an artist named Ben Livingston, who works particularly with light. By Jack Morgan, Texas Public Radio | July 18, 2022 11:15 am | Arts & Culture, Texas Newsroom, Texas Public Radio
Glendale News-Press (2022)
The Museum of Neon Art recently announced that it has acquired Ben Livingston’s “Mural NO. 1,” an Austin, Texas, landmark, pioneering electric artwork and activist statement on nuclear proliferation.
Zilker Odds and Ends, Courtesy of Dr.Brandon & Dr. Barbara Rankin and SAMFA
Texas House of Representatives (2019)
The unveiling of over thirty pieces of art from the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts in the European Union Ambassador's Residence in Washington, D.C.
Voyage Houston (2019)
Meet Ben Livingston
I like being on to something. That’s why my life plays out like a surf safari, filled with hundreds of seasons, paddling into countless waves of random curiosity coupled with an obsession to report the experience. I’m pretty sure it’s no different than paleo-man drawing epic hunt and creation stories all over cave walls.
Glasstire (2018)
Ben Livingston’s ‘Spirit Houses’ at San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts
Austin-based neon artist and musician Ben Livingston got a bit choked up during a gallery talk for his Spirit Houses exhibition at the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts a few weeks back. He was recalling the emotional experience of retrieving some of the wood that he used as cradles or homes for his colorful tubes of light.
Beeville Bee (2018)
BEEVILLE – An underlying spirit flows through all communities just like an electrical current. And just like the dust in each community, that dust and spirit holds information, going back centuries.Phosphors, to Austin artist Ben Livingston, can be made into dust from rock and then illuminated to show evidence of the spirit that lives there. Like ghosts in the dark, the spirit comes alive in the neon art he creates.
Concho Valley (2017)
San Angelo, TX - Thirty years ago, neon light sculptor, Ben Livingston, began to see a neon sign as more than just a series of tubes and vibrant colors. Now he sees it as an art form.
Austin Film School (2017)
MMAC Presents: Ben Livingston, Paintings + Neon
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) fellow, Ben Livingston was Born 1958 in Victoria, Texas into a creative family.
Smear (2015)
Drawing With Light
By: Mary K Cantrell
The guy at the light bulb shop warned me that neon sign benders were “kind of off” – that “something about the gasses” made them crazy.
Austin American Statesman (2013)
Some Austinites blithely apply the loaded term “Renaissance man” to blogger, musician, illustrator, neon artist — and now actor — Ben Livingston.
“You say Renaissance man, I say dilettante with too much time on his hands,” Livingston jokes. “I just do what I enjoy and people are magnetized to it.”
The Austinot (2013)
We have eyes to appreciate the icons that contribute to our local pride: murals that tourists take home on t-shirts, the buildings that compose our recognizable downtown skyline, the beloved local businesses that we would stand in front of bulldozers to protect.
Light NOW (2009)
Neon Artist Ben Livingston to Speak at 2009 Corning NY Glass Art Society’s 39th Annual Conference
(2008 )The Austin Chronicle
Ben Livingston’s animated mural is glowing, glowing, gone.
"It starts with a flower growing; then the house lights up. Then a rocket ship lights up over the flower, and there's a star and a planet, and the ship drops a bomb on the flower – which explodes. Then it all goes black, and the cycle begins again."