Gregg Simpson

Auroras, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

1988

Bold paint strokes, bright colors and very contemplative! The focus was texture, color and a composition with energy and movement. High grade Golden acrylics. Signed on the back, fro...

The flowing cascades of this waterfall reveal little mechanisms coming out of the water to provoke the imagination. This large, signature piece needs a feature wall to do justice to ...

A nocturnal meeting of metallic constructions and shards of color evokes mystery and excitement. The viewer is thrown off kilter in a tilt-a-whirl of strange shapes and unlikely colo...

The first works done after returning from a summer in Provence shows that the same thing that influenced Van Gogh likewise hit me and changed my palette and color sense. :: Painting ...

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 wi...

Ketta Ioannidou Black Rainbow 1 2019 Oil on paper 20 x 16 inches Signed and dated on verso Ioannidou’s paintings exist in a dreamlike state, creating a weightless, fleeting moment a...

Oil and silver leaf on canvas

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...