Speed of Life

‘Art is restoration: the idea is to repair the damages that are inflicted in life, to make something that is fragmented - into something whole.' - Louise Bourgeois, born on Christmas Day in 1911. #LouiseBourgeois , Maman, Outside Tate Modern 2008 https:// bit.ly/3xN04J1

On the #WinterSolstice , we're dreaming of the first snow ❄️ 🖼️: #ChildeHassam , "Charles River and Beacon Hill" (about 1892), oil on canvas pic.twitter.com/0gcHx9gnx1 — Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (@mfaboston) December 21, 2023 Today is the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere & the first day of winter! What causes our planet’s shift in seasons? Its tilt. Today, Earth’s Northern Hemisphere is at its most-tilted away from the Sun. pic.twitter.com/cFJs2ZNGUo — American Museum of Natural History (@AMNH) December 21, 2023

Juneteenth as a federal holiday is meant to breathe new life into the very essence of America. To make sure all Americans feel the power of this day and the progress we can make for our country. Earlier this week, I felt that power at the White House. pic.twitter.com/Ogo6SBvZBA — President Biden (@POTUS) June 17, 2023 Six Art-Filled Ways to Celebrate Juneteenth in New York City https://t.co/9gF54bqlr0 via @hyperallergic — Gregg Chadwick 🇺🇦 🟧 (@greggchadwick) June 17, 2023

"And the poets down here..." Bruce Springsteen & E Street Band "Jungleland" Live in New York City Madison Square Garden April 1, 2023 CREDITS: Giancarlo DiMascio Jordan Norris Ronnie Gilles TheMagikRat Sammy Steinlight

  Get Ready for Sunday, March 19, 2023  11 am - 3 PM ✨ 🎨✨  Join me and other Art At The Airport artists at the Santa Monica Airport for in-person Open Studios. Get a peek inside my studio Gregg Chadwick ( @greggchadwick ) and the studios of artists Julia Michelle Dawson ( @juliamichelledawson ), Crystal Michaelson ( @crystalmichaelsonart ), Claudia Concha ( @claudiaconchaart ), Alexandra Dillon ( @alexandradillonartist ), Daniela Schweitzer, Ameeta Nanji ( @ameetan ), Pamela Simon-Jensen ( @pamelasimonjensen ), Susie McKay Kriesser ( @susiemckaykrieser ), M. Susan Broussard ( @msusanbroussardart ), Joan Wulf ( @joanwulfstudio ), Maddy LeMel, Melinda Smith Altshuler ( @melindasmithaltshuler ), Paula Rosen ( @paula_rosen ), Gwen Samuels ( @gwensamuels ), Elham Sagharchi ( @elham_sagharchi ), Sabine Pearlman ( @sabinepearlman ), Deborah Lynn Irmas ( @deborahlynnart ), Ara Oshagan ( @ara.oshagan ), April Banks ( @aprilbanks_art ), Luigia Gio Martelloni ( @giomartellonistudio...

 by Gregg Chadwick Gregg Chadwick Ponte del Castelvecchio (Verona) 48"x36"oil on linen   In Japan the first dreams of the New Year, hatsu-yume 初夢, traditionally provide markers for the dreamer's upcoming year.  In that spirit, perhaps the first artwork sold in a new year provides inspiration for the months to come. My painting Ponte del Castelvecchio (Verona) is the first sale of 2023. On this first day of the new year, I am busy packing up my Verona painting for shipment to its new home.  I think back to the genesis of the painting. I was perched above a Renaissance era bridge in Verona watching a light rainfall and the swollen river rushing by. The smell of rain filled the air. Swifts darted across the milky sky. Like gauze stretched across a stage set, the mix of rain, bus exhaust, and a distant sun breaking through the mist cloaked the moment in a spell of timelessness. I thought of the late Russian emigre writer Joseph Brodsky and his idea that water is th...

  Gregg Chadwick New York Stories (Five Minutes to Midnight) 30"x 40" oil on linen  Happy New Year! 明けましておめでとうございます Akemashite Omedetou Gozaimasu In my painting "New York Stories" it’s five minutes to midnight. Waiting for 2022 to move into 2023 like the hands of a clock spinning into the next hour, figures move around the iconic Grand Central clock like foxes huddling beneath a tree in Andō Hiroshige's "New Year's Eve Foxfires at the Changing Tree, Ōji" It’s raining this New Year’s Eve in Santa Monica. I’m listening to a recording of a 10,000-member choir in Japan singing “Ode to Joy” in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Enthusiasm for Beethoven is particularly strong in Japan. Every year in December, singers gather in a concert hall in Osaka to sing the final chorus from Beethoven's Ninth. Gregg Chadwick Passing View of Shohei Bridge  30"x24" oil on linen 1990 Again , my thoughts trace a circuit from this moment back to an earlier New Yea...