Speed of Life

Communicating the loss of a loved one is never easy. It is best done in person but words alone can also provide light in a difficult time. With deep sadness I have to send  on  news about the death of our beloved family member Hannah Johnson. Hannah passed away Sunday night in a traffic accident, and her husband Matt is fighting for his life in a hospital in Madison, Wisconsin. ( Update on Hannah's Husband Matt:  Matt is coherent, awake, conversant and stood up today!!) Hannah believed deeply that all are created equal and that we all deserve an equal share of human rights. Hannah worked tirelessly for marriage equality in California and New Jersey.  Pictured in this New York Times photo from 2009 is my courageous family member Hannah Johnson tearing up as she applauds a New Jersey Senate committee vote on a bill to legalize gay marriage.  The struggle continues in New Jersey and in California photo  by Richard Perry / New Yor...

Sandra Lee and Artist Gregg Chadwick at artMRKT San Francisco , a photo by GreggChadwick on Flickr.

I Canti at #artMRKT SF , a photo by GreggChadwick on Flickr. Thanks to everyone at artMRKT San Francisco for making the event such a big success. I hope to see all of you that I met in San Francisco again real soon. Maybe next time in Santa Monica?

Canaletto's   The Grand Canal in Venice from Palazzo Flangini to Campo San Marcuola , painted around 1738, provides the viewer a gondola ride down Venice's Grand Canal. Compare the 18-century city to the way it looks today in this video produced by the Getty Museum in honor of the painting's recent acquisition. Music: Antonio Vivaldi: Oboe Concerto in C major (RV 447), Advent Chamber Orchestra. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0

Gregg Chadwick l'Horloge   de Baudelaire 40"x30" oil on linen 2013 My paintings will be showcased in the Sandra Lee Gallery booth  at   artMRKT  San Francisco  - an international art fair held May 16-19, 2013  Festival Pavilion - Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, California.  I will be speaking at the upcoming “Categorically Not” event on Sunday May 19, 2013 at the Santa Monica Art Studios about my painting process and “what lies beneath” the layers of paint and the layers of ideas that go into each of my works.  The event will be held in the Arena One Gallery.  You can see more on this event at the  Categorically Not  website.  Gregg Chadwick Study for the City Dreams 12"x12" oil on linen 2012 My painting  Study for the City Dreams   will be in the  Silent Art Auction  at The 34th anniversary of the...

by Gregg Chadwick Tonight, a stunning cover of David Bowie's Haunting song Space Oddity was released from space  by Commander Chris Hadfield on board the International Space Station.  The imagery is stunning, reminiscent of the film Moon directed by David Bowie's son Duncan Jones. Sometimes life really does imitate art, even while orbiting earth in a tin capsule in space. UPDATE: Since I posted this last night, Chris Hadfield's video has gone viral with over a million views and counting!   David Bowie's Facebook editors loves the clip stating," It’s possibly the most poignant version of the song ever created." Their Facebook posts continues : you may recognise the name of one of those involved in its creation. We’re talking about Chris's fellow Canadian, the lovely Emm Gryner, who was a part of the Bowie live band in 1999/2000. Here’s what she said on her blog ( http://smarturl.it/EmmBlog ) regarding her involvement: “The task was in front o...

  GreggChadwick   Empire State 72"x36" oil on linen 2013 On View at artMRKT San Francisco May 16-19, 2013 Sandra Lee Gallery, San Francisco Booth #221

by Gregg Chadwick China's Terracotta Warriors: The First Emperor's Legacy at  the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco  photo  by Gregg Chadwick  "I, Sovereign, am the First Emperor; my descendants will call themselves the Second Generation, the Third Generation, and will go on forever after."  - The First Emperor, Qin Shihuang (259-210 BCE)      quoted by the historian Sima Qian (145-90 BCE) China's Terracotta Warriors: The First Emperor's Legacy  currently on view at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco until May 27, 2013 provides tantalizing glimpses of an ancient culture and its rulers' attempts to influence cultural and political memory. Over two thousand years ago, Qin Shihuang - the first emperor of China, began constructing a massive mausoleum to ensure, what Li He, the Asian Museum's associate curator of Chinese art, describes as the personal and political "continuation of the fami...