Lena Imamura is a Japanese American artist and entrepreneur, born and raised in New York City. She works across neon, glass, resin, and electricity, making containers for inner worlds at different scales, from sculptures and installations to the platforms that hold creative life. She studied fine art at The Cooper Union, co-founded the women-owned neon studio GLO, and is a co-founder of DFOS. Her work and process have been featured by the New York Times, CNBC, NBC, and Good Morning America.The frame on the right is what's running on the LED panels at the gallery right now — top row is the outer-state stream, bottom row is the inner-state stream.
We are leaking thoughts into the world all day long and have no idea.We are leaking thoughts into the world all day long and have no idea.We are leaking thoughts into the world all day long and have no idea.
I wake up thinking about everything I haven't done.I wake up thinking about everything I haven't done.I wake up thinking about everything I haven't done.
The artwork · live now
Frame 07 / 07
40 resonances
In the show — Matrixed Systems
Full Spectrum
Each participating artist voice-notes their uncensored thoughts in the weeks leading up to the show. AI processes those notes into two streams — intended narrative and inner truth — and both scroll on LED strips below their displayed work during the show. Audiences use button inputs to indicate which phrases resonate. That data returns to the artists live. Full Spectrum holds the room of Matrixed Systems and is the infrastructure the other works feed into.
Outer state — what they meant to say.
top button
01
We are leaking thoughts into the world all day long and have no idea.
3outer presses
02
Thoughts have an energetic fingerprint.
6outer presses
03
What lands may not be what was meant.
4outer presses
04
The human experience is more relatable than our individual will.
0outer presses
05
I want to break the white box.
2outer presses
06
Artists rarely get a real pulse on who's listening.
5outer presses
Inner state — what was coming through underneath.
bottom button
01
I wake up thinking about everything I haven't done.
3inner presses
02
I feel scattered, pushed, yet weirdly grounded.
1inner presses
03
I'm building the kitchen before I can cook.
2inner presses
04
This is totally my jam and I'm still conflicted.
4inner presses
05
I want to learn to see with my eyes open.
5inner presses
06
I'm trying to make the spiritual and technical cohere.
