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Chadwick Exhibition Arrives at Beverly Hills Gallery

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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...

Neruda's Path Through Silence

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Gregg Chadwick Still I Rise 40"x30" oil on linen 2017 "From all this, my friends, there arises an insight which the poet must learn through other people. There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are. And we must pass through solitude and difficulty, isolation and silence in order to reach forth to the enchanted place where we can dance our clumsy dance and sing our sorrowful song - but in this dance or in this song there are fulfilled the most ancient rites of our conscience in the awareness of being human and of believing in a common destiny." --Pablo Neruda