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Gregg Chadwick Rio Grande 30"x40" oil on linen 2015 Happy Holidays! Hope to see all my Bay Area friends at the Sandra Lee Gallery in San Francisco on Dec 12, 2015 from 4-6 pm for the Annual Holiday Group Exhibition. My new painting Rio Grande will be exhibited for the first time! Rio Grande will be on view until the New Year.

Really enjoying John Berger's new book which collects many of his perceptive pieces on art and artists. John Berger’s Portraits shows how art teaches us to see: http://www. slate.com/articles/arts/ books/2015/12/john_berger_s_portraits_reviewed.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_top   … via @ slate

"This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before" Leonard Bernstein Gregg Chadwick added, 0:21 Natalia Gallois   @ nataliaggg Transportant son piano à vélo, il vient jouer devant le #Bataclan #Lennon #Paix

Legos refuses Ai Weiwei bulk order says “cannot approve use of # Legos for political works” http:// ow.ly/TOWVD  

Artists United Against Apartheid 

Gregg Chadwick  Buddha of Roseburg 8"x6" oil on panel 2015 Tonight! Art & Home: An Evening with LA Family Housing to benefit LA Family Housing. October 21, 2015 7-9pm Room & Board, Helm's Bakery Building, 8707 Washington Boulevard, Culver City CA 90232 More at: https://www.facebook.com/events/1023426074375780/ https://www.facebook.com/lafhonline

Ahmed Mohamed, falsely arrested for homemade clock, visits White House for # AstronomyNight http:// trib.in/1klteba  

Please Join Me This Upcoming Weekend  for  the 11th Anniversary of the Santa Monica Art Studios.  My studio #15 will be open with a display of new paintings in process. Saturday, October 17 from 6-9pm  Sunday, October 18 from 1-5pm 3026 Airport Boulevard, Santa Monica, CA 90405 Gregg Chadwick will be speaking at The Representational Art Conference on  November 2, 2015 in Ventura, California  From Tehran to Ferguson: Social Justice in Contemporary Representational Art (For more info please click here:  http://trac2015.org/gregg-chadwick/ ) Gregg Chadwick  Kids Who Die: From Ferguson to Baltimore 24"x48" oil on linen 2015 (Inspired by Langston Hughes & the #BlackLivesMatter Movement) Gregg Chadwick's Solo  Exhibition  Cinema  of Time Continues at Upper West through October 24, 2015 Upper West, 3221 Pico Boulevard, Santa Monica, CA 90405 Artist Gregg Chadwick Engages Hollywood in New Exhibition: "Cine...

RT @ KiwisInLosA Kiwis in LA Art Show and Wine Tasting. Sat Oct 10, 6-10pm, Santa Monica Art Studios. Thx @ AIRNZUSA

Gregg Chadwick Kids Who Die (Ferguson to Baltimore)  24”x48” oil on linen 2015 inspired by Langston Hughes and the #BlackLivesMatter movement  https://www.facebook.com/colorofchange/videos/10153460650661067/ Kids Who Die by Langston Hughes This is for the kids who die, Black and white, For kids will die certainly . The old and rich will live on awhile , As always, Eating blood and gold, Letting kids die. Kids will die in the swamps of Mississippi Organizing sharecroppers Kids will die in the streets of Chicago Organizing workers Kids will die in the orange groves of California Telling others to get together Whites and Filipinos, Negroes and Mexicans, All kinds of kids will die Who don't believe in lies, and bribes, and contentment And a lousy peace . Of course, the wise and the learned Who pen editorials in the papers, And the gentlemen with Dr. in front of their names White and black, Who make surv...

New Art Galleries Enjoy a Los Angeles Advantage: Space http:// nyti.ms/1ixmOoN  

Gregg Chadwick Not a Morning Person 8"x8" oil on panel 2015 AN ODYSSEY: 10 YEARS OF THE TORRANCE ART MUSEUM Saturday, September 12, 2015 6:00pm – 10:00pm I am excited to have my painting "Not a Morning Person" in the Torrance Art Museum's 10 Year Anniversary Benefit Exhibit and Fundraiser. Guests will have the opportunity to purchase artworks from the various artists who exhibited at the museum over the past decade. All works will be sold for $100.00 USD and proceeds will go towards future museum renovations and to expand the museum's arts and education programs.  Hope to see you there! - Gregg Chadwick Below is a list of confirmed artists who will have their work sold at the gala:  Accardi, Charles Agito, Robyn Alexander, Peter Aliabadi , Shiva Alvarez, Tania Jazz Ano , Michael Apgar, Jonathan Appel , Kevin Aragona, Marisa Argote , Carmen Arrowsmith, Dawn Avesar , Nurit Baer, Nadege Monchera Baker Cahill, Nanc...

Fascinating Article - Looking at a Painting as a Conservator https:// shar.es/1tUy0E   via @ thegetty

RT @ NatGeo In honor of # WorldElephantDay , a gallery of the beloved animals in the wild: http:// on.natgeo.com/1J36JR3  

Jersey Rain  by  gregg   chadwick Via Flickr: Gregg Chadwick 30"x40" oil on linen 2015   Inspired by Robert Pinsky and Robert Chadwick  JERSEY RAIN by  Robert Pinsky Now near the end of the middle stretch of road What have I learned? Some earthly wiles. An art. That often I cannot tell good fortune from bad, That once had seemed so easy to tell apart. The source of art and woe aslant in wind Dissolves or nourishes everything it touches. What  roadbank  gullies and ruts it doesn’t  mend It carves  the deeper , boiling tawny in ditches. It spends  itself regardless  into the ocean. It stains and scours and makes things dark or bright: Sweat of the moon, a shroud of benediction, The chilly liquefaction of day to night, The Jersey rain, my rain, soaks all as one: It smites Metuchen, Rahway, Saddle River, Fair Haven, Newark, Little Silver, Bayonne. I feel it churning even in fair weather To craze distincti...

by Gregg Chadwick Author Gabriel Urza’s family has roots in Spain’s Basque region. His new novel “All That Followed” http://amzn.to/2eyXpMY shows us the faces of civil wars — the Spanish Civil War of the 1930's, the Basque separatist movement, and the small wars that families and couples often find themselves fighting. Urza recounts a fictional tale based on real events that explores the kidnapping and killing of a young politician by even younger separatists in the late 1990s. Urza limns a town where everyone knows where bullet holes were left by Franco’s murderous thugs decades before. Ghosts of the murdered seem to arrive in the slanted rain —  txirimiri in Basque. In a Rashomon like retelling of the politician’s murder, three disparate voices speak in alternating chapters: Joni, an aging American expat teacher. Mariana, the victim’s young wife. And Iker, a student activist turned abductor. Joni and Mariana’s pain and loss are balanced with Iker’s hunger for ...