MAY & JUNE OPENING RECEPTION SATURDAY, MAY 5TH, FROM 5 TO 8PM
Life Dot Dot Dot. As in Life etc. As in life and all the rest of it. That and there will truly be a veritable smorgasbord of dots to feast your eyes upon when Artisans on Taylor brings together Tom DeGroot, Zach Hixson, Counsel Langley, and Eric Olson, four abstract painters whose work captures and encodes nothing less than the stuff of life.
LIFEDOTDOTDOT is an opportunity to see work by three artists, Tom, Eric and I, whose work is included in Visual Codec's One Shot (see previous post)!
AOT is located in downtown Port Townsend at 236 Taylor Street.
p.s. I designed the announcement . . . if you want one email me with your mailing address.
Hot off the presses! I've got my copy. THIS BOOK RULZ!
One Shot features work by 100 regional artists selected in a blind jury process. Includes many Northwest heavyweights--I am honored to be in such good company!
"One Shot is a thing a of beauty -- an elegant 5 1/2" square volume of images with a silver pistol printed discreetly on its embossed black cover. The reproduction quality is of the first order and the represented artists include many favorites and a few surprises. Years from now, I suspect, historians seeking a document that reveals the essense of our present moment will lean heavily on this textless tome. It will go on my shelf beside Charles Cowles's Northwest Traditions and Bruce Guenther's 50 Northwest Artists, but will compare favorably with them in terms of style and intent."
Cityscape 14 (Resources) acrylic, ink, glitter 36 x 36" 2006
Visual Codec’s One Shot–-a locally published book featuring work by 100 regional artists working in the visual arts. Visual Codec, published a monthly online magazine from February 2006 to February 2007. Its core focus was in-depth coverage of the vibrant regional contemporary visual arts scene showcased by three pivotal Pacific Coast cities: Portland, Oregon, Seattle, Washington, and Vancouver, British Columbia. Online archives of the magazine can be found at: www.visualcodec.com.
In conjunction with the magazine, Visual Codec spearheaded One Shot, a book project intended to showcase both emerging and established regional visual arts talent drawn from Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia.
One Shot features work by 100 regional artists selected in a blind jury process. Each artist/team was allowed to submit only one work of art, and, while up for review by the jury, each entry was presented with only the medium it was created in, the title of the work, and the general knowledge that it was created somewhere in the region. No artist names, gallery affiliations, cities, resumes, or artistic statements were presented to the jury.
One Shot Book Specifications - Custom cover foil-pressed on cardstock - Internal pages laser CMYK on 28lb Bright White - Dimensions approx. 5.5"w x 5.5"h x .5"d - Locally conceived, designed, compiled, printed and bound
One Shot Online Availability
The One Shot book is now available, to Washington, Oregon and Vancouver BC residents, direct from Visual Codec to OR, WA, and BC residents via PayPal. Books run below cost at $20USD plus any applicable tax and shipping/handling. No PayPal account is needed to purchase via PayPal. Please allow 1-2 weeks for shipping. All sales are final; no returns or refunds.
Online sales everywhere else (nat'l and int'l) will be handled by www.powells.com (coming soon)!!
One Shot In-Store Availability
In conjunction with the release events we are also working hard to make the book available via select retailers in PortlandOR, SeattleWA, and VancouverBC.
Powell's City of Books has confirmed status as our Portland retailer, Wall of Sound will be handling Seattle in-store sales, and we are still working on confirmation with our Vancouver retailer.
Using acrylic, ink and immodest amounts of glitter my work is the balance between two opposing approaches. One, loose painting techniques such as dripping, pours, splatters, which I use to create effective representations of natural elements—weather, water, clouds, smoke, flora, erosion, growth, galaxies . . . . The other approach, that of the tool user, with pen and ink and architects' templates, drafting implements and compasses, I fastidiously draw controlled lines, concentric circles, grids and repetitive dots; these reflect structures and infrastructures that we build.
I am influenced by the look of outer space, computer chips, dramatic weather, electric circuits, decay, rock-n-roll glamour, plans and diagrams, b-rate sci-fi control panels, urban environments, fluid turbulence, engineering schematics and architectural drawings. In the end my dominate subject matter remains the human condition; why and where we build, how we feel, what we do, and what happens when these things intersect.
By the way, musicians IOU. Someday, with my lines, dots, colors and sparkles, I hope to do what you do with an eight letter alphabet.
—Counsel, 2009
Native to the Northwest, Counsel Langley's award-winning work has been exhibited regionally in numerous solo and juried shows, published in select book projects, such as, Jennifer Borges Foster's Filter II and Visual Codec's One Shot, and is held by Seattle City Light's Portable Works Collection. Langley received a BFA in Metals from Massachusetts College of Art, Boston in 1999. Metalsmithing’s emphasis on small-scale details and rich surfaces directly impacts her technique as a painter.
At present, she resides happily in the Pacific Northwest with her commercial fisherman husband and two children.
WHAT THEY SAID
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." —Robert A. Heinlein
"Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work." —Chuck Close
"There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!" —Coco Chanel
COPYRIGHT
Counsel Langley. All rights reserved. Please do not use my photographs, artwork or writing without my permission. Communication makes it all more fun anyway!
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