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Biography
At a very young age Chase Langford started studying and drawing maps. The first maps he recalls were the highway maps stashed in the glove box of his family's Ford Country Squire station. By Langford's teens he had a map and atlas collection in the thousands and spent his free time engorged in cartography.
Langford's fascination of maps led him to study cartography at UC Santa Barbara and followed with a career creating maps for faculty at UCLA. The effect of spending much of a lifetime intimately tracing coasts, rivers, highways and more inevitably created the visual rhythms of geography that largely make up Langford's pictorial sensibility.
The interplay of a lifetime of maps and fine art painting became most apparent in the late 1980's when Langford started to create map paintings. Their purpose was not to explain the geography of a place but rather to use the essence of geographic forms to re-express them in an entirely new way.
Today Langford's paintings still echo their geographic foundation. Whether is it translating the essence of the sand patterns made by the waves on Baker Beach or the dusty Kalahari as seen from a plane. His latest series, Morphic, adds in the influence of landscape views such as the view from his ridge top studio off Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles. This new series represents a significant shift from the two-dimensional map view to an abstract composition that implies a three-dimensional space.
Langford's Chroma series came about in 2003 when he was working on a painting that he deemed unsuccessful. He started to obliterate the work by covering it up with short repetitive even strokes. Stepping back he saw an intriguing affect and over 100 practice works later he perfected the brush work technique for the Chroma series.
These works start dark and bold, building up layers that are gradually lighter and less saturated. The subtle colors and tones juxtaposed in horizontal bands create a flickering effect of light and hue. Within each band exists delicate streaking to keep the works alive and vibrant. Langford leaves a fine gap between the bands to leak out the some of the color bands painted underneath. The result are paintings that are serene and contemplative, luring the viewer into a meditative state -
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Download Langford CVBorn in Pontiac, MI
Lives and works in Southern CaliforniaEDUCATION
BA, Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
Life drawing, Brentwood Art Center, Brentwood, CA
Ceramics, Berkeley Art Cooperative & College of Marin, CASELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Gensler, Chicago, IL (forthcoming)
Wynn Fine Art, Palm Beach, FL (forthcoming)
2020
Geographic Expressionism, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2019
Seen and Imagined, Eisenhauer Gallery, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
Aerena Galleries, St. Helena, Yountville & Healdsburg, CA
Panorama, Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA
2018
Calcadia, Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA
2017
Found in Translation, Susan Eley Fine Art, New York, NY
2016
Land Marks, Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA
2015
Lucas Valley (Eichler) Community Center, Aerena Galleries, Marin County, CA
Carte Blanche, Aerena Galleries, Yountville & Healdsburg, CA
2014
Geo+Morphic, Susan Eley Fine Art, New York, NY
Gensler, Washington, DC
2010
Bryant Street Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
2008
Gensler, Santa Monica, CA
2005
Scrapes, Keller & Greene, Los Angeles, CA
1993
New Paintings and Monoprints, L.A. Artcore Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1992
L.A. Artcore Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1991
Sculpture Gardens, Venice, CA
1990
Encore Fine Art, Long Beach, CA
Kerckhoff Art Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CASELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Connection, Blue Print Gallery, Dallas, TX
Group Show/TBA, Blue Print Gallery, Dallas, TX
Elements: Air, Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA
Showcase, at four locations, Aerena Galleries, Napa/Sonoma, CA
2023
Small Works, Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA
Walk a Mile, Blue Print Gallery, Dallas, TX
Elements: Water, Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA
2022
Group Show, Art Project Paia, Maui, HI
Form Less Form, Mash Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Culture Pulse Art & NFT Launch Event, Bel Air, CA
2021
Group Show, Blue Print Gallery, Dallas
Visual O, Mash Gallery, Los Angeles
2020
Summer Selects, Susan Eley Fine Art, Hudson, NY
Earth, Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA
New Work, Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA
Paper Trail, Susan Eley Fine Art, New York, NY
Group Show, Blue Print Gallery, Dallas, TX
2019
Fluidity, Karolina Maszkiewicz sculptures and Chase Langford paintings, Aerena Galleries, Healdsburg, CA
Curator’s Selection: Method II, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Summer Selects, Elder Gallery, Charlotte, NC
On the Rocks: Summer Juried Show, Susan Eley Fine Art, New York, NY
Point and Line to Plane, Art Project Paia, Paia, Maui, HI
Winter Selects, Susan Eley Fine Art, New York, NY
Winter Selects Silvermine, Silvermine Art Center, New Canaan, CT
2018
Love in Color, Art Project Paia, Paia, Maui, HI
Group Show, Blue Print Gallery, Dallas, TX
Evolution (two person with Susan Brenner, Elder Gallery, Charlotte, NC
Outside Inside, Eisenhauer Gallery, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
Mythopoetic, Coagula Curatorial’s “New Curator Series,” Los Angeles, CA
Topophila: A Sense of Place, a Sense of Feeling, (group show), Kirkland Art Center, Kirkland, WA
Resolution, Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA
2017
Flight of Fancy, with Anna Kincaide and Santiago Garcia, Eisenhauer Gallery, Edgartown, MA
Grapihic : Lines : Color, Roan & Black Contemporary Gallery, Saugatuck, MI
Parallels and Meridians, with David Burdeny, Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA
Mark Making: Recent Works by LA-Based Artists, Saatchi Art, Santa Monica, CA
Abundant, Bountiful and Beautiful, Art to the Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
2016
Circles, Scribbles & Squares, Roan & Black Contemporary Gallery, Saugatuck, MI
Cross Currents, Saatchi Art, Santa Monica, CA
Genesis on Paper, Ted Casablanca Gallery, Palm Springs, CA
The Art of Transformation, Ted Casablanca Gallery, Palm Springs, CA
2015
Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA
Nature, Art Projects Paia, Paia, Maui, HI
Abstractions, Roan & Black Contemporary Gallery, Saugatuck, MI
Water is Our Soul, Art Projects Paia, Maui, HI
Snap Shot in Chicago, Roan & Black Contemporary Gallery, Chicago, IL
2014
Malaga Cove Library Gallery, Sara Balough Fine Art, Palos Verdes Estates, CA
I Love Maui, Art Project Paia, Paia, Maui, HI
Elements of Domesticity, Susan Eley Fine Art, New York City, NY
Scapes, Roan & Black, Saugatuck, MI
Abstractions, Art Project Paia, Paia, Maui, HI
Art1307, Villa di Donato, Naples, Italy
2013
Blanc de Noir, SCAPE, Corona del Mar, CA
Summer Salon, Fresh Paint Art Gallery, Culver City, CA
2012
ELEMENTal, Fresh Paint Art Gallery, Culver City, CA
2011
Making Their Mark, Susan Eley, New York City, NY
2010
Fresh Paint, Culver City, CA
Get Art 3, Siren Studios, Los Angeles, CA
Bryant Street Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
2009
Pairs, Ambient Art Projects, Las Vegas, NV
2008
Expansion, Fresh Paint, Culver City, CA
2005
Flowers West at K&G, Keller & Greene, Los Angeles, CA
2004
Keller & Greene, Los Angeles, CA
2003
Art X, Long Beach Museum of Art, Curated by Ron Nelson, Long Beach, CA
Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2001
Art IX, Long Beach Museum of Art, Curated by Bernard Jazzar, Long Beach, CA
1999
Art VIII, Long Beach Museum of Art, Curated by Terrence Rogers, Long Beach, CA
1998
Art VII, Long Beach Museum of Art, Curated by Bernard Jazzar, Long Beach, CA
1994
Roy G. Biv Gallery, Palm Springs, CA
1991
Newcomers II, L.A. Artcore Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Gallery Artists Group Show, Encore Fine Art, Long Beach, CA
New Artist Exhibition, Los Angeles Art Association Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Satellite Show, L.A. Artcore, Los Angeles, CA
1990
Salon d’Oeuvres sur Papier de Montreal, Galerie Art-Jeunesse, Montreal, Canada
Seven Western States Open Juried Exhibition, Long Beach Art Assoc. Gallery, Long Beach, CA
The California Scene Exhibition, Los Angeles Art Association Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Tenth Desert West Juried Art Exhibition, Lancaster Museum, Lancaster, CA
An Exhibition of Abstract Art, Los Angeles Art Association Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Artist Collective Show – A Multi-Site Installation, Artist Collective/Los Angeles, CASELECTED ART FAIRS
2023
Intersect Palm Springs
Modernism Art & Design Show, Aerena Galleries
2019
Art Toronto, Bau-Xi Gallery
2018
Reveal Art Fair, Susan Eley Fine Art, Saratoga Springs, NY
2017
Context Miami, Susan Eley Fine Art, Miami, FL
Art on Paper, Susan Eley Fine Art, New York, NY
Modernism, Hollis Gallery, Palm Springs, CA
2015
Context Art Miami, Susan Eley Fine Art, Miami, FL
Toronto Art Fair, Susan Eley Fine Art, Toronto, Canada
Modernism Show, Aerena Galleries, Palm Springs, CA
2014
Context Art Miami, Susan Eley Fine Art, Miami, FL
Art Silicon Valley, Susan Eley Fine Art, San Mateo, CA
2013
Context Art Miami, Susan Eley Fine Art, Miami, FL
2012
Aqua Art Miami, Susan Eley Fine Art, Miami, FL
2010
Art San Diego, Bryant Street Gallery, San Diego, CA
Los Angeles Art Show, Bryant Street Gallery, Los Angeles, CABIBLIOGRAPHY
Miles Walls, “Mapping the Imagination: Chase Langford’s Unique of Geography and Art,” One Eleven, January 2024
Let’s Talk Art With Brooke (podcast), “Chase Langford, L.A. Abstract Artist,” September 2020
Tyler Arnold, “The Man Behind the Visions,” Beverly Hills Lifestyle magazine, December 2019
“Meet Chase Langford,” VoyagerLA, November 2019
Hadley Keller, “A New York City Apartment Chock Full of Ingenious Storage Lessons,” House Beautiful, October 2019
Alex Semenzato, “Mapping Your Art Career with Chase Langford,” SEEMO Podcast, London, September 2019
Deena ElGenaidi, "A View From the Easel: Chase Langford, Los Angeles," Hyperallergic, February 2019
Brandon Larcom, "Peeling Back," Beverly Hills Lifestyle magazine, Holidays 2018
Grace Cote and Lia Newman, “What’s up this Week in Charlotte’s Visual Arts?” Charlotte Observer, August 2018
“Premier Edition,” American Art Collector, July 2018
Lindsey Shumway, “The Big Reveal,” Saratoga Living, May/June 2018
Gwyn McAllister, “Eisenhauer Gallery Opens Season with Three Diverse Artists in Memorial Day Show,” MV Times, May 2018
“Chase Langford Solo Show Opens at Foster/White Gallery Seattle,” Artdaily, April 2018
"Susan Eley Fine Art Presents 'Found in Translation,' Work by Chase Langford and Sarah Picon," Mapanare.us, March 2017
Meagan Meehan, Blasting News, "Interview with artist Chase Langford of Susan Eley Fine Art," March 2017
Izabel Fonk, Objekt International, “Transparency is King in the Beverly Hills,” Summer 2016
T.s. Flock, Vanguard Seattle, “Land Marks at Foster/White Gallery.” May 2016
Art Access, The Monthly Guide to the Arts, May 2016
Julie Sheer, Houzz, “Understated Elegance at the 2016 Pasadena Showcase House of Design,” April 2016
Marcia Gawecki, “Of all the Gin Joints,” Palm Springs Life, January 2016
Mapanare, “Susan Eley Fine Art (New York) Showed Work by Chase Langford and Amy Greenan at Context Miami,” December 2015Michelle Gringeri-Brown, “Twin Peeks,” Atomic Ranch, Midcentury Marvels Magazine, Summer 2015.
Grant Creegan, “Chase Langford Paintings,” MoMa.co.uk, June 2015.
Alissa Darsa, “Must See Art Guide: New York,” November 2014.
Wall Street International, “Chase Langford Geo+Morphic at Susan Eley Fine Art,” November 2014.
Moray Mair, “Chase Langford Paintings Born in Cartography,” MutantSpace, online arts & culture, August 2014.
Saatchi Art, “Inside the Studio, Chase Langford Interviewed,” February 2014.
Michelle Gringeri-Brown, “Working for the Weekend,” Atomic Ranch, Midcentury Marvels Magazine, Winter 2014.
Demitri Christian Sgourakis, “Matters of Design” radio interview, Voice America, June 2014.
David Allen Ibsen, “Chase Langford is Captured by Filmmaker Eric Minh Swenson,” Five Thot online magazine, June 2013.
Huffington Post, “Featured Fifty Fine Ats: Botswana 5,” July 2013.
Orange County Register, “Blanc de Noir at SCAPE,” April 2013.
David Allen Ibsen, “Artist Chase Langford: Cartography Embedded in his Paintings,” Five Thot online magazine, February 2012.
Florence Kane, “Pale Perfection,” C – California Style Magazine, March 2012.
The Second Hanging Blog, “Group Show at Susan Eley Fine Art,” May 2011.
Lisa Selin Davis, Luxe Los Angeles, “Open Wide”, Thomas J. Landry & Assoc., April 2010.
Danielle Kelly, "Housing New Hopes, Ambient Art Projects Launches New Exhibition Site with 'Pairs,'" Las Vegas Weekly, April 2009.
Robb Report, Vacations Homes magazine, “Pared-down Paradise,” January 2009.
Katherine Harmon, “The Map as Art, Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography,” 2009.
Lieba Faier, “Intimate Encounters: Filipina Women and the Remaking of Rural Japan,” painting ‘Many Japans’ on cover, July 2009.
Christine Lennon, “Rhapsody in Gray, Fashion Designer Monique Lhuillier’s Bel Air Home,” Elle Decor, Jan/Feb 2008.
Lizzie Garrett, “Present Perfect, Luis Ortega brings Donald Wexler’s Palm Springs masterpiece up to speed,” Interiors, Aug/Sept 2008.
Susan Morgan, “Modern by Design, Our Los Angeles Showhouse,” Metropolitan Home, October 2007.
Lisa Boone, “An Old Estate’s New Look,” Los Angeles Times, October 2007.SELECTED COLLECTIONS
AMLI Fountain Place, Dallas
Bates White, Washington, DC
Blue Tiger, Palm Desert
Bracebridge Capital, Boston
Brandywine Realty Trust, Herndon, VA
Caesar’s Palace, Las Vegas
Celebrity Cruises, Flora, Galapagos Islands
Cohen & Lord, Century City
Compass Lexecon, Washington, DC
Coudert Brothers LLP, Los Angeles
Doughtery Dental Corporation, Sherman Oaks, CA
Dykema Grossett LLP, Los Angeles
Endurance Insurance, Chicago
Esena Golf Club, Palm Springs
Four Seasons Hotel, Hong Kong
GDIT, Fairfax, VA
Gensler, Washington, DC
Imagery Estate Winery, Glen Ellen, CA
Intercontinental Hotel, San Diego
Jacmar, Los Angeles
John Hopkins Sibley Memorial Hospital, Washington, DC
JP Morgan Chase, Tacoma, WA
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
Keck Medical Center of the University of Southern California
Light Street Capital, San Francisco
Long Beach Museum of Art
MacCarley, Rosen, Inc, Los Angeles
Maesa, New York City
Mastro’s Ocean Club Malibu, Malibu
Mastro’s New York
Mayora Group, Jakarta, Indonesia
Meacham Oppenheimer Inc., San Jose, CA
MedStar Health, Columbia, MD
MGM Cotai, Macau, China
Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, Austin, TX
Monique Lhuillier Inc., Los Angeles
Nordstrom, Austin, TX
Nordstrom, Bloomington, MN
Nordstrom, Chicago
Nordstrom, Los Angeles (Century City & Redondo Beach)
Nordstrom, New York City
Nordstrom, Norwalk, CT
Nordstrom, Costa Mesa (South Coast Plaza)
Nordstrom, Vancouver, British Columbia
Norwest Venture Partners, Palo Alto
Ojai Valley Inn & Spa, Ojai, CA
Paris Las Vegas Hotel, Las Vegas
Park Hyatt Aviara, Carlsbad, California
PIMCO, Newport Beach
Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront, Portland, Oregon
Ridgemont Equity Partners, Charlotte, NC
Royal Caribbean Cruises, Inc., Allure of the Seas
Saks Fifth Avenue, New York City
Sidley Austin LLP, Los Angeles
Silhol Law, PLLC, Dallas, TX
Stearns Weaver Miller (law), Tampa
The Art Bank, U.S. State Department, Washington, DC
The Star, Sydney, Australia
Thomas Landry Associates, Los Angeles
Thomas Safran & Associates, Los Angeles
UBS, Los Angeles
Unico Properties, Denver
Villa Ventia, Costa Mesa, California
Vintage Club, Indian Wells
Waldorf Astoria, Monarch Beach
