Kacie Lees (b. 1986) is a New York-based visual artist working in neon, holography and print who deconstructs light to draw connections to a collective subconscious and atomic solidarity. Over the past decade, Lees has exhibited at The Museum of Neon Art (2022, 2016) and The Museum of Glass (2023), authored 'Neon Primer: A Handbook on Light Construction' (2021, Plazma Press), received The Los Angeles Conservancy Preservation Award (2022), and has been published in PLASMA 4: International Art and Science Magazine (2018). Lees leads experimental neon bending workshops at museums and cultural institutions across America.
Kacie Lees
Inner Beams
Neon, cable, transformer
"Inspired by research into light sciences… this white neon tube with black stripes (seen left) releases a hidden rainbow of composite wavelengths when seen through a spectroscope (right)… Leaning into deep space as a key to our collective subconscious and atomic origins, my vivid sculptures and material interventions overlap optical effects to source new visual encounters. Light is a language we experience through the body. Its palpable glow and high-visibility powers of attraction affect our environments as well as our minds…I find the exchange of electrons which generate light to be an allegory for connection, and I create spaces where a glow can strive towards a tangible presence. In these exchanges, we become linked, defragmenting our little place in the universe, one encounter at a time."
— Kacie Lees
About the artist
Kacie Lees
American
Kacie Lees (b. 1986) is a New York-based visual artist working in neon, holography and print who deconstructs light to draw connections to a collective subconscious and atomic solidarity. Over the past decade, Lees has exhibited at The Museum of Neon Art (2022, 2016) and The Museum of Glass (2023), authored 'Neon Primer: A Handbook on Light Construction' (2021, Plazma Press), received The Los Angeles Conservancy Preservation Award (2022), and has been published in PLASMA 4: International Art and Science Magazine (2018). Lees leads experimental neon bending workshops at museums and cultural institutions across America.
