Counsel Langley

Counsel Langley grew up among shipwrights and foundry workers—people with strong traditional skills and respect for materials. Their influence played a large part in her choice to study metalsmithing at Massachusetts College of Art (earned her Bachelor’s of Fine Art, 1999). The rigor of metalwork honed Langley’s discipline, steady hand, attention for detail, and love for surface treatment (rough, smooth, matte, shiny, sparkly, natural, mechanical etc). Her work remains rooted in a metalsmith’s approach to making art.

Langley’s mixed media pieces have been widely exhibited; venues include the Museum of Northwest Art, Roq La Rue, International Gallery of Contemporary Art, PUB Gallery at Peninsula College, OGHE Ltd., and Bridge Productions, and was recently featured in a Microsoft Surface Launch Campaign. Her work is held by the Seattle City Light Portable Works Collection and ArtsWA Public Collection. Langley’s work has been featured in Seattle Magazine, City Arts Magazine, Meat For Tea: The Valley Review, Trickhouse, Beautiful/Decay blog. Her love for cross-discipline collaborations sparked opportunities to work with literary publications Filter Literary Journal, Poetry Northwest Magazine, the creation of album art, scenic desig...

BFA, Metals, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

SELECTED SOLO SHOWS
2022 Homer Public Library Reading Room, Homer, AK
2021 Bear Gallery, Fairbanks Arts Association, Fairbanks, AK
2020 International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage AK
2018
Fort Worden, Art in Public Places, Port Townsend WA
2017
Earthenworks, Port Townsend WA
2016
Peninsula College Gallery, Port Angeles WA
2015
Ghost Gallery (with Amelia Layton-Reed), Seattle WA
2011
Ghost Gallery, Girl Meets Universe, Seattle WA
2010
Museum of Northwest Art, Resonances: Contemporary Echoes Modern, Invitational, LaConner WA
2009
Mithun Architecture, Fluid Structure, Seattle WA
Gossamer Collective, 2 Sides 2 Every Story, Seattle WA
Canoe Social Club, B-Sides, Seattle WA
2008
AOT, Cloud Atlas, Port Townsend WA
2007
Suite 100 Gallery, Urbanity, Seattle WA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Collage Artists of America Open Exhibit "Connections," SFVACC/SCORE, virtual online juried show
Trinity Art Show, Trinity Cathedral Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2020
Fairbanks Arts Associations, Resilience: AK Artists Respond to the Concept pf Resilience
2019 IGCA, Members Exhibition, Anchorage AK
2018 Ghost Gallery, Seattle WA
2017
Bridge Productions, Many Lands, Invitational, Guest Curator Ben Gannon, Seattle WA
PT School of the Arts Gallery,...