Thank You Frieze Week Visitors

Thanks to everyone who visited my studio during Frieze week. I’m pictured here with a group of visiting journalists from the UK. 🇬🇧 great conversations throughout the week. And for those of you who brought Chadwick artworks home - a hearty thank you. Thanks @18thstreetarts and all my artist colleagues. Already looking forward to next year.

Press visitors included:

Ian Sturgess, Assistant Chief Sub-Editor, The Mirror (circulation 245,655)

Natasha Colyer, Editor, Seen in the City (Circulation: 21,500)

Amber O’Connor, Writer, Cosmopolitan (Circulation: 39 million)

Cassam Looch, Director of Content, Culture Trip (Circulation: 4 million)

Neeru Sharma, Lifestyle Editor, Bauer Media (circulation: 1 million)

Tom Miller, Santa Monica Travel & Tourism UK Representative

Lauren Salisbury, Senior Director of Communications at Santa Monica Travel & Tourism

Artist Mobina Nouri was one of many amazing artists to visit during Frieze week in Santa Monica 

As the city transitions away from an active runway to more art events like Frieze and eventually a Great Park, we are in the midst of the creation of the Santa Monica Artport.

#frieze #art #contemporaryart #artport

Purple Rain in Santa Monica

 

Gregg Chadwick
Purple Rain (Prince Rogers Nelson)
24"x18" oil on linen 2016
Sold During Frieze Week, February 2023

Thank you to my collectors, fans, followers, and friends who visited my studio at the Santa Monica Airport during @friezeofficial. Honored that my homage to the sublime Prince has found its home with one of my treasured collectors. I am inspired by the art that I saw at Frieze with my new friend @ara.oshagan and percolating with ideas that will soon hit the canvas. As you know if you stepped in my studio - my brushes are clean, my paints are ready, and the colors will soon flow. If you heard Purple Rain playing across the Santa Monica Airport on Sunday Eve at the closing of Frieze that was @18thstreetarts amazing Kevin and me pouring one out musically for Prince!

#art #contemporaryart #Prince #Frieze #LAart #SantaMonica

Poolside

Gregg Chadwick

Poolside

20"x16"oil on linen 2022

    Private Collection, Oxford, Connecticut

Pleased that my painting "Poolside" has been sold by @saatchiart and successfully delivered to its new home near New Haven, Connecticut. It arrived in the midst of a record cold spell and hopefully brought warm memories of Spring and Summer along.
Legs dangling in an aquamarine pool, drink in hand, and a book open to the right page. What is she reading? Perhaps because he was born on this day in 1946, French Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard's book "Happiness: "A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill" which explores how to develop happiness as a skill that includes acceptance of pain and struggle through a process of understanding, meditation, and breath.

Or perhaps her book is a collection of Emily Dickinson's poetry?
"Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me."

Note - if you are in town for the @friezeofficial Art Fair at the Santa Monica Airport, I will have my studio open @18thstreetarts at the Airport during fair hours. Please stop by and say Hello.

#art #SantaMonica #Frieze #Books #Hope #Beauty #ContemporaryArt #greggchadwick

Kehinde Wiley, Amanda Hunt and More at Frieze Los Angeles 2022

Kehinde Wiley

Portrait of Ibrahima Ndome. 2021

48 x 36 in (121.9 x 91.4 cm)

Roberts Projects

photo by Gregg Chadwick