Charles Gadeken creates beautiful sculptures incorporating mixed metals and fire. His art is uniquely organic, using fire to enhance and complete the sculpture.

By incorporating fire into these works of art he brings thesculpture alive. By using the medium of fire, he is able to engage his audience in a physical way through smell,light, color and the heat on their faces.

Fire has wonderful movement; it dances, changes, has a wide range of colors and is always in motion, never looking same shape twice.

Charles is a founding member of the Flaming Lotus Girls and has helped the group create their fiery art for the last 7years. His art has been displayed at Burning man, Robodock in Amsterdam and the Big Day Out Festival in Australia.

He founded the Illumination Project, creating monumental kinetic sculptures for the opening of Treasure Island SF, The Santa Rosa Museum of Visual Art, Reno Art Town and Burning Man.

For the last 5 years he has designed and built custom fire art for individual’s collectors homes.

Recently he created a series of large scale fire pits for the National Park Service that are now on display on Ocean Beach in San Francisco

Charles Gadeken