JAMES OLIVER GALLERY CELEBRATES 20 YEARS WITH GLOW DAY
James Oliver Gallery presents Glow Day, a three-person exhibition featuring works by neon artists Alissa Eberle, Eve Hoyt, and Fedele Musso, on view September 12 through November 7, 2026. An opening reception will be held Saturday, September 12 from 6–9 PM.
Marking James Oliver Gallery’s 20th anniversary, Glow Day celebrates a medium that has long held a place in the gallery’s history. Since its founding in 2006, JOG has championed artists working with neon, embracing the medium’s ability to move between the commercial and the artistic, the nostalgic and the contemporary. The exhibition brings together three artists who explore neon glass as a vehicle for self-expression, transforming a medium historically associated with commercial signage into personal works of fine art.
Behind neon’s immediate visual impact is an exacting and increasingly specialized craft. Each work requires a convergence of glassworking, chemistry, electricity, design, and skilled hand fabrication. Glass tubes are heated and bent into form, fitted with electrodes, filled with neon or argon, and electrified to produce their characteristic glow. It is a labor-intensive process in which technical precision becomes part of the artistic language.
Together, Eberle, Hoyt, and Musso represent both neon’s history and its continuing capacity for reinvention. For James Oliver Gallery, Glow Day is equally a reflection on continuity and transformation. As the gallery celebrates two decades, the glow of neon becomes a fitting metaphor: a connection to the past that remains vividly alive and reimagined in the present.
Alissa Eberle
Alissa Eberle is a Philadelphia-based neon glass artist whose work explores notions of time dissonance, malfunction, and the intersection between the manufactured and natural world. Augmented by the mysterious and otherworldly qualities of glass and rare gases, Eberle seeks to highlight distortion and decay, while questioning the division between what we know of the physical world and our internal reality. Removed from their original context and immortalized in neon, argon, and glass, the objects and moments found in her work exist in a space that has perhaps already been experienced, while simultaneously being completely new. Originally from Lowell, Massachusetts, Eberle received her BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She began learning neon through an apprenticeship at Neometix in New Orleans before apprenticing under Domenic Urbani at Urban Neon in Philadelphia. Eberle previously exhibited at James Oliver Gallery in Joyland in 2025.
Eve Hoyt
Eve Hoyt came to neon through the trade itself, working as a glass tube bender in the sign industry for more than a decade before establishing her own studio and shifting her focus toward fine art. Her work frequently combines hand-bent neon with found objects, vintage trinkets, and artifacts, creating pieces infused with whimsy and nostalgia. Hoyt’s award-winning work has been exhibited nationally, including at the Museum of Neon Art and the National Liberty Museum. She is a member of the Philadelphia Dumpster Divers and a founding member of the Neon Makers Guild, an organization dedicated to preserving the craft of neon.
Fedele Musso
Fedele Musso, also known as “Fred Neon”, discovered the power of neon firsthand when illuminating old neon tubes above his Wildwood, New Jersey boardwalk business dramatically increased patronage. That experience launched a decades-long pursuit of the medium and its possibilities. Musso spent 20 years creating neon work in Palm Beach County, Florida, earning multiple electric sign design awards while exhibiting within the state’s art-show circuit. After returning to Wildwood, he became involved in efforts to preserve the city’s mid-century visual heritage, saving hundreds of overlooked neon signs. Across thousands of commissions and projects, Musso has continued to fabricate genuine neon while advocating for the preservation of its craft, history, and distinctive light.
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