Speed of Life

Gregg Chadwick Tsavo East (The Water Carrier's Dream 22"x28" oil on linen 2025 Private Collection, Richmond, Virginia   Thrilled that my oil on linen painting "Tsavo East (The Water Carrier's Dream)" is venturing to its new home in Richmond, Virginia. The artwork is part of an ongoing, globally inspired series of paintings that considers our place as humans in the larger natural world. The elephant is both a symbol of resilient strength and also, because of the ivory trade, has become a symbol of the possible extinction of numerous animal species. My paintings of elephants are a call to action. They are elegies for what has been lost, celebrations of the profound beauty that remains, and urgent reminders of our shared responsibility to protect the planet's most vulnerable inhabitants. Water as well is a symbol of life. The bucket the woman carries is part of an effort to make clean water safer and more accessible from local, community owned water facilit...

  Gregg Chadwick Luminists 24"x18" oil on Legion Oil paper 2025 My oil painting "Luminists" was inspired by a moment pulled from a visit to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. A couple visiting the museum appeared to be wrapped in the colors of the vibrant artworks on the walls - a jewel-toned moment of connection. Their palpable joy expanded into the museum galleries. The quiet magic that unfolds between two people. Art and life intertwined. "Luminists" serves as a daily reminder of the beauty of shared experiences. On Exhibit Sept 25-28 - The Other Art Fair L.A. 20% off tickets available at this link https://toaf.com/45WSaOF #TheColorofTime   #TheOtherArtFair   #love   #community   #contemporaryart   #LAStories   #pullingthemoment   #gettyinspired

  photo by Gregg Chadwick Must Read article in Mother Jones: "American fascism looks like the president using armed military units from governors loyal to his regime to seize cities run by opposition political figures and it looks like the president using federal law enforcement to target regime opponents." "Civilians who try lawfully to exercise their right to document the abuses of the regime are themselves arrested and charged with felonies through trumped-up charges teeming with official lies. The fact that this military takeover and federal occupation is being done to the city’s residents — and not on their behalf — is evident in how deserted DC has become as residents refuse to enter public spaces where they might have to interact with agents of the state. America has become a country where armed officers of the state shout “Papers please!” on the street at men and women heading home from work, a vision we associate with the Gestapo in Nazi Germany or the KGB ...

Gregg Chadwick  On My Easel: "Field Glasses", 13.5" diameter, oil on wood tondo, 2025 View my latest artworks this September 25-28 at  @TheOtherArtFair  Los Angeles. Art reframed—thousands of original artworks, unique art installations, and unforgettable experiences. Book your tix at this link -> https://toaf.com/45WSaOF  to get 20% off your tickets  

  Gregg Chadwick Strawberry Letter 23 11"x16" oil on Legion oil paper mounted on aluminum 2025 Riding into Labor Day Weekend with my new painting "Strawberry Letter 23". Late summer always brings to mind memories of sweet soul music and carefree days riding bikes along the strand. Hope that you can find some moments of peace and joy this weekend! #art   #theotherartfair   #santamonica   #losangeles   #bicycles   #brothersjohnson

 Must Read: My resignation letter from CDC. Dear Dr. Houry, I am writing to formally resign from my position as Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), effective August 28, 2025, close of business.   I am happy to stay on for two weeks to provide transition, if requested. This decision has not come easily, as I deeply value the work that the CDC does in safeguarding public health and am proud of my contributions to that critical mission. However, after much contemplation and reflection on recent developments and perspectives brought to light by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., I find that the views he and his staff have shared challenge my ability to continue in my current role at the agency and in the service of the health of the American people. Enough is enough. While I hold immense respect for the institution and my colleagues, I believe that it is imperative to align my p...

  Gregg Chadwick The Color of Time 48"x48" oil on linen 2025 New Paintings by Gregg Chadwick “Story is our only boat for sailing on the river of time.” - Ursula K. Le Guin "Your mind is more free. It can think, and is in the present. It can remember, and at once is in the past. It can imagine, and at once is in the future, in its own choice of all the possible futures.Your mind can travel through time!." - Eric Frank Russell "I find myself drawn to artworks, architectural spaces, and transportation devices that meld the past and present. While living in San Francisco, I lived a few blocks from the Main Library and watched as architect Gae Aulenti transformed the Beaux Arts building into the Asian Art Museum. Aulenti referred to the mix of past and present in her architectural renovations as a 'double ambiguity.' With sketchbook and camera in hand, I roam spaces that carry this double ambiguity- sketching details, pulling visual moments, and jotting down...

  ] Gregg Chadwick Begin Again (Taylor Swift, Saint-Germain-des-Prés) 24"x36" oil on linen 2025 Congrats to "your english teacher and your gym teacher"  - they are getting married.  To mark this joyful day for Taylor and  Travis, I present a brand new artwork.  Set at a café in the Parisian district Saint-Germain-des-Prés, my oil on linen painting "Begin Again ( Taylor Swift )" was inspired by Taylor's video created for her 2012 album " Red ".  Dressed in a gauzy Tiffany Blue top,  Taylor sips an espresso and finds new love. A fitting artwork for my collection of moments pulled from life and love that will be exhibited at The Other Art Fair in Los Angeles from September 25-28, 2025. The artful  @lili_theotherartfair  also congratulates the pair with: "So High School Your english teacher and your gym teacher are getting married, and your art teacher (me) is obsessed. Curated from works by exhibiting artists at The Other Art Fair Los Angel...

Patti Smith, Piazza San Marco, Venice, 2025.07.07,  Beneath the Southern Cross Festival della Bellezza

"R.B. Kitaj was one of the pre-eminent figure painters working in post-war London. Despite the acclaim he achieved in his lifetime, since his death in 2007 he has not been widely exhibited in London and many areas of art historical research into his work await exploration. His paintings and drawings, especially those made in his Los Angeles period between 1997 and 2007, warrant more detailed appraisal than they have yet received. Outstanding research topics reach far beyond a consideration of his source materials and include his ambiguous interposition between modernity and post-modernity, his self-conscious use of eclectic styles as a vehicle for meaning, and the varied networks he connected with, from the swinging London of his friends David Hockney and Mick Jagger to the Beat scene of California. In short, Kitaj and his work are long overdue for reconsideration. In collaboration with Piano Nobile, the Courtauld Research Forum will contribute to that process of reconsideration. ...

From the BBC - "4-part BBC documentary series in which art historian James Fox explores how the power of images has transformed the modern world. James starts at the beginning of the 20th century, when an explosion of scientific and technological advances created radical new ways of looking at the world. From the impact of aerial photography on modern art to our ability to peer inside the body and freeze time itself, the first episode is a dizzying journey of visual invention, which makes fascinating connections between the work of artists, film-makers, photographers and scientists. Revealing Salvador Dali’s debt to Einstein, the groundbreaking trickery of Buster Keaton and shockingly modern fakery of WWI photos, James Fox offers an endlessly surprising, eye-opening look at the beginnings of our image-saturated age."

  PRIDE (Last of Us) 30"x22" pastel, color pencil, ink, and wash on paper 2025 by Gregg Chadwick My multi-media drawing on paper "PRIDE (Last of Us)" was inspired by a poignant scene in the HBO Max series which is based on the storytelling in the video game "Last of Us". In my artwork queer lovers Dina and Ellie ride on horseback through dystopian Seattle's Capitol Hill. In this perhaps eerily prescient future, PRIDE celebrations have ceased and anti - LGBTQIA bigotry is present. As they ride, Dina and Ellie notice the PRIDE flags, but don’t know their meaning. "What's up with all the rainbows?” Dina asks. “I dunno. Maybe they were all optimists,” Ellie responds. But, we the audience know what the PRIDE symbols mean and the loss is heartbreaking. As we near the end of June 2025 - the world is in a particular tough place. My artwork is a visual meditation to remind us all that "Love is Love!"

From the National Gallery in London: "Parmigianino is one of the most inventive and influential artists of the Italian Renaissance. His huge altarpiece, originally intended for a burial chapel in San Salvatore in Lauro in Rome, has had a particularly precarious life - or so the art historian Giorgio Vasari tells us. Hear from Project Curator Maria Alambritis the story of how both Parmigianino and his painting survived the Sack of Rome, one of the most destructive events of the 16th century." 🎨 Find out more about the painting, 'The Madonna and Child with Saints John the Baptist and Jerome' https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/pa... 🖌️ Find out more about Parmigianino https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/ar... #NationalGallery #ArtHistory #Parmigianino

Exploring the Garden of Earthly Delights will introduce the practice of drawing and painting in Santa Monica’s hidden green spaces. Soon to be a Great Park, the asphalt and concrete of the Santa Monica Airport will in the not-too-distant future give way to green fields, flowers, and foliage. Even now, magical places exist at the airport where nature expresses itself alongside hangars and workspaces.   During the workshop, we will venture into the garden area behind the City of Santa Monica Airport Arts Center Studios and engage with the natural forms that fill the space. In this urban oasis of lush green foliage and blooming flowers, workshop participants can draw or paint living botanicals on the spot, or draw or paint portraits of two costumed models. We will step out of our homes and workspaces, and bathed in Southern California light, will be inspired by the works of Hieronymus Bosch, Frida Kahlo, and John Singer Sargent.   We will respond to this intimate garden by making...