Chase Langford

Chase Langford’s paintings transform geography into an expressive vocabulary of color, line, and layered form. Drawing from his early training as a cartographer, Langford extracts the rhythms of terrain—coastlines, waterways, geologic strata—and reimagines them through abstraction. These works do not depict specific places; instead, they evoke the sensation of landscape, the way memory distorts, amplifies, and reshapes our relationship to space.

Working in sweeping bands and intricate linear structures, Langford blurs the boundary between mapping and painting. His canvases hover between aerial view and emotional field, inviting viewers to navigate their surfaces as if traversing an imagined topography. In an age saturated with satellite imagery and digital maps, Langford restores the hand, the gesture, and the poetic impulse to our understanding of place. These paintings offer not an atlas of the world, but an atlas of feeling.

His abstract paintings can be found in permanent collections of the Palm Springs Art Museum and the Long Beach Musuem of art as well as private collections in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia; some notable collections include Magic Johnson, Pete Sampres, Monique Lhuillier, and The Saudi Royal Fami...

BA in Geography, UC Santa Barbara, Life drawing, Brentwood Art Center, Los Angeles. Ceramics, Berkeley Art Cooperative & College of Marin

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Nov 2024 – April 2025 – Gensler, Chicago

Sept 2024 – “Metacarto,” – Foster/White Gallery, Seattle

June – 2020 – “Geographic Expressionism,” Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto

June 2019 – “Panorama,” Foster/White Gallery, Seattle

JuMay 2016 – “Land Marks,” Foster/White Gallery, Seattle – Opening May 5, through May 21

May 2015 – Lucas Valley (Eichler) Community Center, Aerena Galleries, Marin County

Jan 2015 – “Carte Blanche,” Aerena Galleries, Yountville & Healdsburg, CA

Nov-Dec 2014 – “Geo+Morphic,” Susan Eley Fine Art, New York

Oct 2014 – Feb 2015, Gensler, Washington, DC

Oct 2010 – Bryant Street Gallery, Palo Alto, CA

Apr-July 2008 – Gensler, Santa Monica, CA

Sept 2005 – “Scrapes,” Keller & Greene, Los Angeles

Dec 1993 – “New Paintings and Monoprints,” L.A. Artcore Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

May 1992 – L.A. Artcore Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Jan-Feb 1991 – Sculpture Gardens, Venice, CA

Nov 1990 – Encore Fine Art, Long Beach, CA

Nov 1990 – Kerckhoff Art Gallery, UCLA

T W O P E R S O N A N D G R O U P E X H I B I T I O N S

Oct 2025 – “Make Yourself at Home,” Foster/White Gallery, Seattle

July 2025 – “Roots,” Blue Print Gallery, Dallas

Nov 2024-ongoing – “The Modern West,” Senior Curator Christ...