Central Server Works is pleased to present our fourth exhibition:

James Langford

Selected Objects Vol. 1

Opening October 21, 2022, at CSW Venice with a reception for the artist from 6 - 10 PM.

James Langford’s work is grounded in a DIY ethos while pulling from a constantly evolving and expanding exploration of historical craft and design practices. Artists like Mark Bradford and Tom Sachs have long adhered to an art-making ethos where materials have no hierarchy and the everyday hardware store can act in equal measure to any art supply store. Langford plays with this idea constantly in his work while also pulling from his job making detailed scale models at an architecture office. His fabrication via 3D printing, hand weaving, and sewing are applied across apparel making and furniture design in his debut exhibition.

As an artist, Langford exhibits a keen sense of spatial awareness in part from his client-based object-making practice. Commissioned works include a rubber-coated Jeweler’s desk with steel elements and milled armrests, Polystyrene and plaster stools that mimic the form of the human molar, and a conference table utilizing a readymade steel oil drum as legs. Langford also shares a collaborative creative studio with fellow designer Larry Tchogninou. Together the two make up Points of Sail, where they take the constraints of globalism and robotic fabrication processes to create sculptural flat-pack objects. A foldable desk lamp based on the design of the Bruce Anchor, Archimedes, a canoe made of folded cast concrete, polymesh, fiberglass, and epoxy resin make up only some of the objects Langford has worked on with Points of Sail.

“Selected Objects Vol. 1” pulls together a group of sculptures, design objects, and film that act not as an introduction to one specific element of the artist’s work but as an assemblage of ideas that begin to paint the bigger picture of his intentions in creating objects.