Speed of Life

Gregg Chadwick's artwork to be featured at the  Montana Avenue, Santa Monica, Art Walk 2018 Saturday, July 28, 2018 10am - 9pm at Engel & Völkers  Santa Monica, 1123 Montana Ave, Santa Monica, CA 90403 Hope to see you there!

Gregg Chadwick Still I Rise 40"x30" oil on linen 2017 "From all this, my friends, there arises an insight which the poet must learn through other people. There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are. And we must pass through solitude and difficulty, isolation and silence in order to reach forth to the enchanted place where we can dance our clumsy dance and sing our sorrowful song - but in this dance or in this song there are fulfilled the most ancient rites of our conscience in the awareness of being human and of believing in a common destiny." --Pablo Neruda

Art! Art! Art! @Salamander_Mag @riverteeth @3ElementsReview #litmags #art https://t.co/HdpxLSqiV8 — New Pages (@newpages) July 21, 2018 We're so excited that our Issue 19 cover art by @greggchadwick is a @newpages   pick of the week! https://t.co/8wUFQmwrsp — 3Elements Review (@3ElementsReview) July 21, 2018

REP LIEU STATEMENT ON TRUMP, PUTIN SUMMIT IN HELSINKI July 16, 2018 Press Release WASHINGTON - Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) issued the following statement after President Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Finland. "What Trump did today was utterly shameful, and a slap in the face to the professionals in the Department of Justice and our intelligence community. Today we watched a U.S. President offer total deference to a hostile foreign power while attacking U.S. institutions. By refusing to admit that Russia attacked our Democracy, or that Russia did anything wrong whatsoever, Trump is disturbingly regurgitating the Kremlin's talking points. Having served on active duty, I feel nauseous thinking about Trump's statements. Despite how desensitized we’ve become to Trump’s remarkably un-presidential actions, today should stand out as obscene. What happens next will determine whether we allow our President to cede American id...

After Trump's EU "foe" comment, one senior European diplomat said to me this morning, he has to separate America from the President, citing the David Bowie song "This is not America" https://t.co/GXldfcpDXt — Tara Palmeri (@tarapalmeri) July 16, 2018

France’s triumphant team is a symbol of multiculturalism — here’s how diversity played a crucial role in the World Cup’s most successful teams pic.twitter.com/jJcdCFrj4B — NowThis (@nowthisnews) July 15, 2018

In February 2017,  Full Frontal With Samantha Bee  interviewed Nell Braxton Gibson , Dorie Ladner , Frank Smith Jr. , Luvaughn Brown , and Joan Trumpauer Mulholland  about their work in the Civil Rights movement and their advice for our time and our struggle for justice. Joan Trumpauer Mulholland implored that,“Sometimes you have to put your cellphone down and take to the streets.”

A new release from the vaults. RIP Tom Petty!

Note to my readers: I was thinking about this exhibit today and thought that I should repost this wonderful article by Jeffrey Carlson from March 2013.  Gregg Chadwick and Painting Time Jeffrey Carlson Reporting Contributing Editor, Fine Art Today March 2013 In a new solo exhibition, California artist Gregg Chadwick ambitiously explores the boundaries of time and of representational painting.  Gregg Chadwick, "Grand Central," oil on canvas, 36 x 48 in.    Gregg Chadwick, “Il Poeta di Milano,” oil on canvas, 24 x 18 in. The Time Between, a show of recent paintings by Gregg Chadwick, is now on view at Sandra Lee Gallery in San Francisco. In these paintings Chadwick works lightly and suggestively, as if in the haze of a fragmented vision. Some figures are located in recognizable time and space, like three young women who stroll an open road, one texting and another snooping. In other works the subject is far more enigmati...

Childish Gambino , aka  Donald Glover , gives us new songs today: “Summertime Magic” and “Feels Like Summer.” Balm for the soul.

by Gregg Chadwick My family was pleased this morning to read that the 12 Wild Boars and their soccer coach were rescued from a cave in Thailand. The effort was extraordinary. It took strategy, teamwork, focus, dedication and bravery. Here in the United States we have our own children's crisis. Most of the immigrant children separated at the border from their parents by the Trump administration  have not been returned. At a hearing late last week, the government attorney tasked with the case asked the judge for more time because she had to babysit her dog. Shockingly, the judge agreed. Furthermore, a court ordered deadline to return the youngest children will pass with most of the families still hundreds of miles apart. Today, July 10, 2018, is the deadline for the Trump government to reunite 102 separated children under the age of five with their parents. Yesterday in court, the Trump administration said just over 50 children would be reunited by the deadline. Today the figure st...

by Gregg Chadwick Soccer (Futbol) is fun and all but Putin's Russia isn't. Currently in Russia, the act of displaying the LGBT flag in public can get you arrested. So these 6 activists from Latin America turned to creativity during the World Cup in Russia: wearing uniforms from their countries' football teams, they turned themselves into the flag and walked around Moscow with pride.   🏳️‍🌈

As the U.S. celebrates #IndependenceDay on #4thOfJuly , some #WednesdayWisdom from an American cultural icon, Rosie the Riveter, who has been re-interpreted globally as a symbol of women’s empowerment. pic.twitter.com/N2QduXdLm9 — UN Women (@UN_Women) July 4, 2018