Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 5

Chase Langford
Napa

2019

About the Item

Inspired by cartography from an early age, Chase Langford’s abstract paintings transform the familiarity of cities and maps into fluid visions, evoking the feeling of the location with carefully selected color and precise shapes. In the 1980’s, after studying cartography at UC Santa Barbara and drawing maps for the UCLA faculty, Langford began exploring ways to combine his mastery of map-making with his love of fine art. In his original map paintings, Langford reinterprets geography by taking selected features from maps and filling in the reconfigured shapes with flurries of color, exploring varied locations such as Essex, England and the Galapagos Islands. In his “Morphic” series, Langford once again finds inspiration in specific geographic regions, abstracting them until they are nearly unrecognizable with colors interweaving and flowing around each other. Almost seeming to mimic the fluid strata of the Earth, Langford adds and scrapes away layers of oil paint, building up intricate textures while simultaneously revealing the colors below. Langford’s highly-collected “Chroma” series began as a happy mistake. One day, displeased with the brushwork of a painting, he decided to obscure the image by painting small rows of vertical brushstrokes; in doing so, he took note of the beauty of organic uniformity. After years of refining his technique, Langford created the trance-like paintings that he likes to think of as rows of city blocks on a map. Langford has completed many site-specific commissions, including for Monique Lhuillier, Inc.; the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation; and Caesar’s Palace. His artwork is in private collections in North America, Europe, Japan, Hong Kong, and Australia including those of Magic Johnson, the Saudi Royal Family, and the Nordstrom’s Private Collection, as well as the Long Beach Museum of Art’s permanent collection.
  • Creator:
    Chase Langford (American)
  • Creation Year:
    2019
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 12.5 in (31.75 cm)Width: 12.5 in (31.75 cm)Depth: 1.5 in (3.81 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    Napa, CA
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: CLX-31641stDibs: LU14426102482
More From This SellerView All
  • Shift
    By John Karl Claes
    Located in Napa, CA
    California native John Karl Claes’ landscapes enthrall his viewers, drawing them in with the endless horizons, geometric compositions, and vivid, unexpected colors. Upon his return to the San Joaquin Valley after studying art on the East Coast, Claes found the inspiration he had been searching for — the overwhelming openness of the Central Californian agricultural...
    Category

    2010s Landscape Paintings

    Materials

    Panel, Oil

  • A Boy and His Dog
    By Doug Smith
    Located in Napa, CA
    "Part of an exhibition of 12 notable American artists, the U. S. Embassy in Moscow, Russia. My five paintings, along with paintings from Fritz Scholder, Richard Diebornkorn to name ...
    Category

    2010s Paintings

    Materials

    Acrylic, Panel

  • Never a Dull Moment
    By Doug Smith
    Located in Napa, CA
    Encouraged by his parents at a young age to pursue his love of art, Doug Smith brings to life vast planes of melting colors and geometric lines, with the inclusion of meticulously pa...
    Category

    2010s Paintings

    Materials

    Acrylic, Panel

  • Running Pups on Grey
    Located in Napa, CA
    Josh Brown has had a lifetime interest in creating art, most notably through his depiction of animals. He swiftly captures the mood of his subjects and brings the personality of each creature to life in a very graphic way. His bold minimalist style captures the energy and attitude of his subjects creating joy, magnetic characters, and curiously subtle movement. Brown does this deftly with sculptural brush strokes and refined palette knife. The work of Josh Brown is designed to inspire us to live curiously in goodwill and humor, in art and life. Over the years Brown has also had the opportunity to care for his community through art, raising funds for numerous charity groups, battered women shelters, animal rights organizations, children hospitals, and local food venues. Brown has had the pleasure to be featured on numerous blogs, magazines and trend hunting sites for his work as a painter/sculptor, and exhibitions with the Shain Gallery, Charlotte, NC; Michael Mitchell...
    Category

    21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

    Materials

    Oil, Acrylic

  • Russian River Noon
    By Victoria Veedell
    Located in Napa, CA
    Victoria Veedell captures the essence of nature by examining the effects of light on form in the natural world in her softly glowing landscape paintings. Inspired by her travels thro...
    Category

    21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Oil

  • Orange Cat on Fence
    Located in Napa, CA
    Josh Brown has had a lifetime interest in creating art, most notably through his depiction of animals. He swiftly captures the mood of his subjects and brings the personality of each creature to life in a very graphic way. His bold minimalist style captures the energy and attitude of his subjects creating joy, magnetic characters, and curiously subtle movement. Brown does this deftly with sculptural brush strokes and refined palette knife. The work of Josh Brown is designed to inspire us to live curiously in goodwill and humor, in art and life. Over the years Brown has also had the opportunity to care for his community through art, raising funds for numerous charity groups, battered women shelters, animal rights organizations, children hospitals, and local food venues. Brown has had the pleasure to be featured on numerous blogs, magazines and trend hunting sites for his work as a painter/sculptor, and exhibitions with the Shain Gallery, Charlotte, NC; Michael Mitchell...
    Category

    21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings

    Materials

    Oil, Acrylic

You May Also Like
  • Lost in the Woods, 19th Century French Romanticism Painting
    By Pierre Jean Edmond Castan
    Located in Saint Augustine, FL
    Artist: Edmond Pierre Jean Castan Title: Lost in the Woods Medium: Oil on Panel Year of Work: 1875 Signed: Lower Left Dimensions: Framed 18.5" x 16.5" x 3.25" Unframed 6.25" x 4.25" Edmond Castan (1817-1892) was a French artist born in Toulouse in Haute-Garrone who specialized in capturing simple moments of daily life, interior scenes of peasants and children playing games. A pupil of neoclassical painter Francois Gerard...
    Category

    1870s Rococo Portrait Paintings

    Materials

    Oil, Panel

  • John Frederik Hulk II - Grazing Sheep
    By John Frederik Hulk II
    Located in Saint Augustine, FL
    Artist: John Frederik Hulk II Title: Grazing Sheep Medium: Oil on Wood Panel Dimensions: Unframed 13.5" x 13.5" Framed 19.5" x 16" Frederik Hulk II paints a rural landscape. His careful brushstrokes create the fluffy, wool coats of the sheep as well as the detailed facial features in the foreground. These farm animals are dusted with bright and light. Behind them, Hulk’s forest provides a dark contrast as trunks and boughs crisscross and entangle. Hulk’s oil painting is both a playful and realist representation of 19th century Dutch landscape...
    Category

    Late 19th Century Realist Animal Paintings

    Materials

    Oil, Panel

  • The Ploughman - Austrian Realist Painting
    By Josef Hallberg
    Located in Saint Augustine, FL
    Artist: Josef Hallberg (Austrian, Born in 1912- ) Title: The Ploughman Medium: Oil on Panel Dimensions: Framed 14” x 12”, Unframed 9” x 7” Description An oil painting of an Aust...
    Category

    1940s Realist Landscape Paintings

    Materials

    Oil, Panel

  • Ferrari
    Located in Gloucester, MA
    Peter Lyons’s still lifes self-consciously participate in the tradition of religious icons, which embody a measure of the divinity they depict. The painted...
    Category

    2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

    Materials

    Oil, Panel

  • Everett, Massachusetts
    Located in Gloucester, MA
    Peter Lyons’s technique approaches photographic realism, but the precision in his paintings is an attempt to communicate a state of awareness, rather than ...
    Category

    2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

    Materials

    Panel, Oil

  • Nikon
    Located in Gloucester, MA
    Peter Lyons’s still lifes self-consciously participate in the tradition of religious icons, which embody a measure of the divinity they depict. The painted...
    Category

    2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

    Materials

    Oil, Panel

Recently Viewed

View All