Chris Bailey-Gates (CBG) is an artist based in Rhode Island specializing in copper-foil and leaded stained glass as well as small fused glass pieces. They have a background in product design, graphic design, and engineering and their work is heavily influenced by geometry, demonology, classic horror films, and high fantasy.
Burned Out was born from a love of creating and a need to constantly try new things. Chris arrived at the medium of stained glass after twenty years of abandoned hobbies and a decade of burning out in a variety of corporate engineering roles. Working with glass had the perfect mix of designing, planning, execution, and physicality that was missing from other hobbies and art mediums they had bought all the materials for, tried for a few weeks, and put to the side over the years.
Chris holds a BS in Biomedical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and is a graduate of the RISD Product Development + Manufacturing certificate program.
Feel free to reach out via the contact link on this website or by emailing [email protected] if you are interested in any custom work that you think they might be interested in taking on! Be sure to follow along on Instagram at @burnedoutglass for updates on new pieces, in-progress videos, and stained glass tutorials.