Flash up your lighter
A polished stainless steel surface becomes the foundation for Eddie Peake's vibrant interplay of powder coating and spray paint, creating a work that pulses with energy and immediacy. The reflective quality of the metal shifts and distorts the applied color, blurring the boundary between the artwork and its surrounding environment. The title evokes a communal, almost ritualistic gesture, infusing the piece with a sense of collective experience and fleeting celebration.
- Medium
- powder coating and spray paint on polished stainless steel
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale
June 28, 2016
Artists in conversation
Jeff Koons
American · b. 1955
Koons works extensively with polished stainless steel surfaces that reflect and distort the surrounding environment, while incorporating bold pop influenced imagery and vibrant color, closely mirroring Peake's combination of industrial metallic materials with playful and energetic visual language.
Anish Kapoor
British Indian · b. 1954
Kapoor's highly polished stainless steel sculptures similarly blur the boundary between artwork and environment through reflective distortion, and his use of vivid pigments alongside industrial materials parallels Peake's powder coating and spray paint application on metal.
Harland Miller
British · b. 1964
Miller combines bold typographic and pop art sensibilities with conceptual underpinnings and a street art influenced visual energy, sharing Peake's British cultural context, vibrant color palette, and interest in collective cultural experience embedded within the artwork's language.
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