Chase Langford has invented a distinctive visual language that is grounded in the natural and built environment while embarking into uncharted territory. His impactful depictions recall maps and aerial photography of sea coasts, mountains, farmland and cities through a calculated execution and highly refined draftsmanship.
Just as the West Coast Abstract Expressionists (1940–70) found California’s striking landscape fertile ground, so does Langford as he draws upon his geographic environs both near and far. Through his cartographic mastery, Langford contorts and synthesizes geographic elements, bringing forth paintings that are mysteriously familiar yet surprisingly unconventional. They challenge conventions of geography and landscapes, offering invigorating visions of space and place that transcend any specific locale, leading us to an exhilarating emotional experience.
Born in Pontiac, Michigan, Langford is a Los Angeles-based artist well known for his geographically inspired paintings. He studied cartography earning a BA from UC Santa Barbara in geography then worked as a cartographer at UCLA. Starting with his “Map Paintings,” Langford literally reinterpreted geography by taking selected features from maps and filled in the reconfigured shapes in a flurry of color and movement creating a fresh take on familiar geographic forms. This was followed with a series that moved even deeper into pure abstraction with his “Coldwater,” “Mulholland,” and “Scrape” series, which all lead to his “Morphic” series, now the core focus of his painting today.
Langford’s paintings have been widely shown at one-person and group exhibitions in Los Angeles, New York City, Washington D.C., Montreal, Palo Alto, Las Vegas, Long Beach, Napa Valley, Seattle, and Palm Springs, and are included many corporate/public collections (often site-specific commissions) such as Long Beach Museum of Art, Keck School of Medicine at USC, Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, the Star City in Sydney, Australia, and more. Langford’s work is held in private collections in North America, Europe, Japan, Hong Kong, and Australia. It is also in the private collections of Magic Johnson and the Saudi royal family.
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"Catalina Point "Abstract Oil Painting, Oceanic, cartography, blues
By Chase Langford
Located in Edgartown, MA
In Catalina Point, Chase Langford transforms the Southern California coast into a densely layered terrain poised between landscape, map, and memory. Broad passages of pale gray and w...
Oil
Chroma X48 (A Bigger Red)
By Chase Langford
Located in Napa, CA
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...
Oil
$45,000
H 74 in W 67 in
"Pompeian Perfumer" Grace Hartigan, Roman Subject, Abstract Expressionist Artist
By Grace Hartigan
Located in New York, NY
Grace Hartigan Pompeian Perfumer, 1999 Signed and dated lower right; signed, titled, and dated on the reverse Oil on linen 72 x 66 inches Grace Hartigan’s career began among the Ne...
Canvas, Linen, Oil
$1,712
H 21 in W 25 in D 6 in
Oil Painting, Small Shooting Scene By Chapman Bayley (British, Active 1818-1832)
Located in Uppingham, GB
Oil on canvas Shooting by the woods by Chapman Bayley (1818-1832) Early 19th Century gent standing by the woods with his two dogs shooting. Signed by the artist in original frame. Ch...
Oil
The Dissidents: Discourse on the Golden Mean
By Michael Tole
Located in New Orleans, LA
Michael Tole says of his work… This work draws a connection between the didactic moralizing tendencies of Neo Classicism (represented in the style of the painting) and Modernism (represented in the architectural setting). Though modern art eschews the naturalistic imagery used by Neo Classicists, both movements pursued a self-important, austere, self-consciously masculine aesthetic that they saw as synonymous with virtue. Set in the MoMA courtyard, a passel of men lounge about, regarding a golden statue which looks terribly out of place in this modernist vitrine. The uncomfortable architectural setting, prisonlike and cold, provides a foil for the odalisque-like young men sprawled on hard stone benches and paying homage to the central idol. In my current work, The Revisionist Histories, I am writing letters to art history, literature, and mythology in an attempt to reflect the social changes that have reshaped our society over the past century. As part of this agenda, I explore the evolution of gender norms, power dynamics, and representation within Western visual culture and what this implies for the negotiation between pleasure, justice, and our culturally specific discourse on beauty. The seed for The Revisionist Histories was sewn when I caught a glimpse of my preteen daughters watching music videos on their iPad as I chopped veggies for dinner. Out of the corner of my eye I caught glimpses of music videos featuring Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Katy Perry, and Doja Cat gyrating across the tiny screen. A better parent might have snatched the iPad away, but I was overcome with hallucinatory visions of this pop diva...
Oil, Canvas
$4,226
H 35.44 in W 35.44 in D 1.58 in
Júlia Martins Miranda – Contemporary Tropical Flora Painting, Oil on Canvas 2026
By Julia Martins Miranda
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Júlia Martins Miranda is a Brazilian artist trained at the prestigious Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan, Italy. Her practice moves fluidly across multiple disciplines, includin...
Cotton Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
$14,000
H 55.1 in W 144.2 in
Vigilantes II, From the Mediterránea Series. Marcio Marquez Massa
By Marcio Marquez Massa
Located in Villa Allende, AR
Vigilantes II Marcio Marquez Massa 2025 From the Mediterránea Series Oil on Canvas 290 × 140 cm (114.2 × 55.1 in) Vigilantes II is a monumental oil painting from Marcio Marquez Mas...
Canvas, Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Oil
$6,000
H 24 in W 20 in
Spanish Beauty Portrait of Artist's Wife, Oil on Canvas, 1940s, Signed
By Abel Warshawsky
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Spanish Beauty (Portrait of the Artist's Wife) Oil on canvas, c. 1940's Signed upper right "A.G. Warshawsky" (see photo) According to the daughter-in-law of the artist, this painting...
Oil
$11,353
H 46 in W 36 in D 2 in
"Grand Expression" Large Black & White Abstract Painting by Sax Berlin
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Black and white abstract painting from the studio of Sax Berlin
Oil, Acrylic, Canvas
$3,500
H 18 in W 24 in
"Sunset Striations" Dennis Sheehan, New England Sunset, Dramatic Skyscape
By Dennis Sheehan
Located in New York, NY
Dennis Sheehan Sunset Striations, circa 2025 Signed lower right Oil on canvas 18 x 24 inches Dennis Sheehan was born in Boston in 1950. His work is based upon the Barbizon School w...
Canvas, Oil
$1,370
H 11.82 in W 7.88 in
Júlia Martins Miranda – Contemporary Tropical Flora Painting, Oil on Canvas 2026
By Julia Martins Miranda
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
This work is presented in a scroll-like (parchment-style) format, with the painting executed on a flexible support and suspended using metal rods at the top and bottom, allowing the ...
Cotton Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
$3,500
H 20 in W 24 in
"Untitled" Theresa Bernstein, Expressionist Work by American Ashcan Artist
By Theresa Bernstein
Located in New York, NY
Theresa Bernstein Untitled, circa 1990 Signed lower right Oil on canvas 16 x 20 inches Theresa F. Bernstein was born in Philadelphia in 1895 to cultured, middle-class immigrant par...
Canvas, Oil
And the sheep march on
By Evy Olsen Halvorsen
Located in Kingston, WA
This image arose from a snapshot of my cousin around 1957, I don't know what she was looking at but her expression had a sense of confusion. A recent immigrant she was learning about...
Canvas, Oil
$975
H 25 in W 21 in D 0.5 in
Haitian Naïve Art Movement Signed Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
This vibrant artwork is by the celebrated Haitian artist Laurent Casimir (1928–1990). He was a prominent figure in the Haitian Naïve Art movement and is highly regarded for his disti...
Canvas, Oil
$6,750Sale Price|25% Off
H 58.27 in W 78.75 in
The Expulsion of Danae, 148x200 cm, oil on canvas
By Ivan Nesvetailo
Located in Yerevan, AM
The Expulsion of Danae, 148x200 cm, oil on canvas
Canvas, Oil
Happy Birthday
Located in New Orleans, LA
Hope Hickman says of her work... I am tormented by aesthetic seduction, by what I can only call the romantic. My practice processes, through haptic intuition, the look of wealth, of...
Masonite, Oil
$1,250
H 23 in W 19 in
City Centre, Contemporary Figurative Abstract Oil Painting
By Christopher Barrow
Located in Brecon, Powys
City Of Glass. Oil on board abstract painting form the studio of English artist Christopher E Barrow. Well presented in a wooded frame Image 20" x 16"
Oil, Board
"Sonoma Fields" napa california inspired
By Chase Langford
Located in Edgartown, MA
Chase Langford has created a distinctive visual language that is grounded in the natural and built environment while embarking into uncharted territory. His impactful depictions reca...
Oil
Sold
H 54 in W 108 in
"Vineyard Current", a layered and deep horizon in blue and neutral tones
By Chase Langford
Located in Edgartown, MA
Chase Langford has created a distinctive visual language that is grounded in the natural and built environment while embarking into uncharted territory. His impactful depictions reca...
Oil, Canvas