Speed of Life

How the Light Gets In Paintings by Gregg Chadwick Gregg Chadwick Still I Rise 40"x30"oil on linen 2018 Solo exhibition of Gregg Chadwick’s art at Audis Husar Fine Art in Beverly Hills. View all of the exhibition artwork at this  link :  How the Light Gets In Read about the paintings at these   links :   “How the Light Gets In”   on Medium,  Park Labrea News/Beverly Press , and Kathy Leonardo on the   exhibition and benefit. Gregg Chadwick The Future Is Woke (left) Scarlet Shadow (right) 40"x30"oil on linen 2018 and 80"x80" oil on linen 2018 “Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack, a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in.” - Leonard Cohen, Anthem Art at its best possess an uncanny ability to communicate ideas and feelings that we need to understand. It seems that especially in times of struggle or unrest, art helps us connect to the personhood of other...

by Gregg Chadwick Paintings and sculptures at their best possess an uncanny ability to communicate ideas and feelings that words or other media are hard-pressed to convey. It seems that especially in times of struggle or unrest, art helps us connect to the personhood of others. Art creates dialogue . Dialogue promotes reflective discussion . And reflection can lead to change. Artists often use their creations as a sort of reflecting device that mirrors and focuses the viewer’s attention on social and political unrest. As Marvin Gaye sang so poignantly - “What’s going on.” Gregg Chadwick Call and Echo (left), America’s Sons [From Ferguson to Baltimore] (right) In my solo exhibition at Audis Husar Fine Art, a group of paintings provide their stories. The young man in Call and Echo has been seen by many viewers as an homage to Emmett Till. Not a description of the unspeakable violence enacted on that young man in the 1950’s, but ins...