Gregg Chadwick's "Arrivals and Departures" Featured in Under One Roof Curated by Peter Frank

 


Gregg Chadwick
Arrivals and Departures
48"x36" oil on linen 2015-2026
Featured in Under One Roof at the Propeller Gallery, Santa Monica Airport Arts Center
 Studios 3026, Santa Monica, CA 90405


We Are All Under One Roof
Opening Sunday, February 22nd in the Propeller Gallery at the Santa Monica Airport Arts Center- Studios 3026!


On June 26, 2015 Marriage Equality became the law of the land and with hundreds of others we celebrated on the Supreme Court steps. Later on that glorious day, I chatted with President Obama's photographer Pete Souza in front of the White House which was lit up in rainbow colors in celebration of the LGBTQ community.

While we watched, the Presidential Marine Corps unit returned with President Obama from his moving speech at the memorial service for the church folks who were gunned down by a young white supremacist in South Carolina. President Obama sang "Amazing Grace" that day.

In her Netflix film "Becoming", Michelle Obama reflects upon that day as well. Michelle Obama describes how she and her daughter Malia sneaked outside that night, needing to share in the crowd's joy after all the terrible grief in Charleston. They let the jubilation soften their anguish. Arrivals and departures. The struggle for equality for all continues. - Gregg Chadwick

Genie Davis writes in Diversions LA - "Gregg Chadwick’s  Arrivals and Departures is a softly impressionistic blur of motion with a Marine Corps helicopter hovering over the White House, an image that speaks to our time while also being quite lovely and mysterious in a wash of golden light. Is someone fleeing the scene? Is someone being protected?"


Genie Davis in Diversions LA - "Under One Roof is a sweeping exhibition featuring 32 artists curated by @peterfrankonart. The title speaks not just to the artists who are in the show, who work in the Airports Arts Center complex, but to the zeitgeist of today's world.
Despite the many fissures, cracks, and divides, we all live in one world, under one roof of sky."

Exhibiting artists include:
@melindasmithaltshuler, @msusanbroussardart, Barbara Carrasco, @greggchadwick, @claudiaconchaart , @loladelfresno, @alexandradillonartist , Wendy Edlen, Nina Girvetz, @elizabeth_gorcey_art , @deborahlynnirmas, Sara Issakharian, @sheilakarbassian_studio, Annette Miae Kim, @susiemckaykrieser, Sally Lamb, Makala Lee, @giomartellonistudio , @martiradonna_abstract, @crystalmichaelsonart, @mobinanouri.studio, @margaretoakleyhere, @sabinepearlman @elham_sagharchi, @gwensamuels , @daniela.schweitzerartist , @pamelasimonart , @donisilversimons , Julie Weiss, @joanwulfstudio, @rebecca.youssef_studio and @lvlupkid






 

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