Counsel Langley: Uneasy Heavens Await Those Fleeing: A Celebration of Art and Armageddon

Friday, March 20, 2009

Uneasy Heavens Await Those Fleeing: A Celebration of Art and Armageddon

I am so excited about this event!

Uneasy Heavens Await Those Fleeing, 2009, acrylic, ink, glitter, 30 x 60"

Jennifer Borges Foster is bringing together writers, musicians, dancers, painters, photographers, performance artists and more to re-interpret the title of her first completed poetry manuscript, Uneasy Heavens Await Those Fleeing.

This project is made possible through the generous support of the Mayor's Office of Art & Cultural Affairs and 4Culture.

Thursday, April 2, 2009 at 7:00pm

Canoe Social Club at Theater Off Jackson

409 7th Ave S

Seattle, WA

Admission:

Free to Canoe Social Club Members

$5 for Non-Members

Note: Full Bar available.

This event is 21+

Contributing Artists:

Music

Sean Nelson

David Nixon

Jose Bold

John Ackermann

Rick Miller

Erin Jorgensen

Sunday Service

Dance

Amy O'Neal and Mark Haim

Zoe Scofield

Poets/Writers

Rebecca Brown

Matt Briggs

John Olson

Roberta Olson

Doug Nufer

Kary Wayson

Arne Pihl

Linden Ontjes

Brian McGugian

Kate Lebo

Elizabeth Colen

Carol Guess

Koushik Ghosh

Karen Finneyfrock

Peter Periera

Bob Redmond

Brangien Davis

Amy Schrader

Art/Installation

Elizabeth Bisegna Gaston

Counsel Langley

Kim Drake

Erin Shafkind

Jennifer Zwick

Jed Dunkerley

Paul Larned

Karen Rudd

Costume

Chrissy Wai-Ching

1 comment:

Jeane Myers said...: Counsel, this is going to be Stellar! and congratulations on your work being in the PA show! very exciting stuff going on here - I really really love this piece - the contrasts are just wonderful!; March 21, 2009 at 11:46 AM

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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