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Spotted one of my favorite local artists @greggchadwick displayed At LA Union Station pic.twitter.com/aZMV7gVSau — Theo Marshall (@ImTheoMarshall) April 14, 2023

2022

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  by Gregg Chadwick Happy Year of the Tiger! Good News and New Art  from Gregg Chadwick   Gregg Chadwick Steps of Time 30" x 24" oil on linen 2020 Featured in   Seeds of Optimism   "Manifest a happy and bright new year with a joyous artwork  by one of our top artists from around the globe."                    Bethany Fincher - Assistant Curator at Saatchi Art    As 2022 begins, I am honored that Saatchi Art included an artwork  of mine in their  Seeds of Optimism   collection. In my new  interview  with  Art Squat Magazine , I discuss my Saffron Road series: "Twenty years ago in Thailand, I woke up at dawn and spent  the morning quietly and carefully observing the saffron robed monks  on their morning pilgrimages. On my return to the U.S. later that week,  I began to paint Buddhist monks, privately at first - as a form of meditation.  Only later did...

Portrait of Frida Cano (E Line)

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by Gregg Chadwick  For the Metro project "We Are…Portraits of Metro Riders by Local Artists", I painted a portrait of artist, writer, and curator Frida Cano.  Like a steel river, Metro’s E Line connects arts institutions across Los Angeles County. Running from 7th Street in Downtown L.A. to Santa Monica, the E train begins just down Bunker Hill from LA MOCA and the Broad Museum and passes by numerous art cultural centers from the California African-American Museum, to the art gallery districts in West Adams and Culver City, to the Sawtelle Corridor, to Bergamot Station, to the 18th Street Arts Center, ending a few miles from the Ocean Park neighborhood in Santa Monica that inspired artists from Richard Diebenkorn to John Baldessari.  Frida Cano lives in Echo Park and often travels on the E Line to her art curatorial position in Santa Monica. Frida lives and breathes the concerns of our times. She writes,” As an emerging Mexican artist and curator, focused on the reevaluat...