Chris Bracey's Stages of Love

Guy Hepner will showcase the work of neon and light artist Chris Bracey at his Los Angeles and Miami galleries. Producing neon artworks for over three decades, Chris has met an amazing demand from the worlds of art, fashion and cinema from his workshop in East London.

Guy Hepner will show Chris Bracey’s Stages of Love at his galleries in LA and Miami. Chris’ newest series celebrates hedonism. Pinpointing longings and craving for something that brings satisfaction and enjoyment, the pieces chart the brain in love, illustrating how is each phase is bathed in a chemical colour glow.

Expressed through eight reflector cap light sculptures encased in perspex, Stages of Love serves as the sequel to his Seven Deadly Sins show, a recent body of work which interpreted the faults of mankind. The radiant bulb artworks express feelings of happiness and desire, sensations and emotions that can be magical and dangerous. Desire in all it’s phases - Chris Bracey suggests, much like the technology and gases that combine to create neon - can be a volatile substance.

Chris explains that as the brain is neurologically wired to seek out romance, he wanted to create pieces that represent advertisements of sexual interest. ‘Neon was created over a hundred years ago and it has transformed from scientific invention to advertising age to being used as an artistic tool.’ Where Seven Deadly Sins explored the flaws in mankind, Stages of Love highlights its pleasures. Chris’ artistic reasoning, neon is sexy, an incitement to hedonism; it is part of the visual vernacular of the modern urban world. Intrinsic in glamour, neon is associated with exotic pleasures, the city at night and the frisson of potential erotic encounters.

Please contact the gallery for further information and availability. Appointments are available 7 days a week for private viewing and discussing your collecting needs.

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