iPhone - Gamechange
by Gregg Chadwick Gregg Chadwick The Station Agent (detail) 54"x54" oil on linen 2014 Private Collection, Los Angeles, California Featured at the LA Art Show 2015 - LA Convention Center and illustrated in the catalog. January 14-18, 2015 In his biography of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs, biographer Walter Isaacson describes the unveiling of the iPhone on January 9, 2007 at Macworld in San Francisco: "Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything," Steve Jobs said. "Today we are introducing three revolutionary products," Jobs continued. "The first one is a widescreen iPod with touch controls. The second is a revolutionary mobile phone. The third is a breakthrough Internet communications device ... Are you getting it? These are not three separate devices, this is one device, and we are calling it the iPhone." In my paintings, I have often depicted communication devices. From phone booths in Tokyo and New York C...