Langston Gardner’s paintings are a vibrant daily journal of his thoughts. He paints waves of repetitive words that overlap and fade like echoes: TV shows and radios, legs, computers, cows and cartoons, names of fictional characters and names of girls he remembers. Why he writes this with so much fervor is uncertain, but Gardner’s words express the motion and movement in his work, and the steadfast approach to art-making he takes day after day.
Gardner’s work has been included in several notable regional shows including “Think Big” at the Castellani Art Museum. His two-person show with artist Kyle Butler at ASI’s Atrium Gallery was featured in an article by Colin Dabkowski in the Buffalo News, and Gardner has twice been the subject of photo essays by photojournalist Brendan Bannon. He was one of three artists chosen for the “Spectrum Language” exhibit at Christine Frechard Gallery in Pittsburgh, PA. Gardner achieved his first solo exhibit, “Computer Cow Cow Television,” at Big Orbit Gallery in 2018.
