As part of my current exhibit at the Monterey Peninsula College Art Gallery, "Engine Company" is on loan to the Monterey Fire Department. The painting will be displayed for the next month in Station #1 located at 600 Pacific Street, Monterey, California. I feel it is vital to take contemporary art out of the gallery and into the streets. I am honored that my work dedicated to brave Union workers across the globe hangs in Station #1.
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Friday, October 07, 2011
Friday, September 16, 2011
Theater of Memory: New Exhibit Opens October 4, 2011 at the Monterey Peninsula College Art Gallery
Gregg Chadwick
Theater of Memory
48"x48" oil on canvas 2011
Theater of Memory
New Paintings by Gregg Chadwick
Curated by Melissa Pickford
Monterey Peninsula College Art Gallery
Opening on October 4, 2011
Runs until November 4, 2011
One could say we all create paintings as we distill meaning from the rush of life. Experiences, moments, thoughts, actions, memories, and dreams mix together and overlap in our minds and hearts bringing patterns and understanding in our everyday life. My paintings in the exhibit, Theater of Memory at the Monterey Peninsula College Art Gallery, echo this cognitive-emotional process. My artworks evolve through a series of painting sessions in which colors and images overlap, merge, and flow.
At times, my paintings begin close to home with remembered dreams of family members. In the title painting, Theater of Memory, my much loved late nephew Luke Chadwick appeared unbidden, but at the perfect moment. His faint smile recalled a day many years before, when I began a painting in his Seattle bedroom. As Luke watched me mix my paints on an improvised palette, he exclaimed with the intuitive vision of a child that the color I had mixed would not do. “Don’t fear color”, he said in so many words, as he pointed to a rich ultramarine glistening on my palette.
In honor of Luke and my father, Robert Chadwick, I purchased a tube of genuine lapis lazuli from the London color maker Michael Harding. This true ultramarine, ground into a crystalline powder and mixed with linseed oil on a stone mill, is the color blue found in Renaissance skies. Transparent layers of this lapis mark each of my paintings in this exhibit. Sourced in Afghanistan, lapis lazuli, reflects the historical tides of trade, conquest and conflict that ebb and flow across this region and the globe.
More at:
Gregg Chadwick's Theater of Memory
Monterey Peninsula College Art Gallery
980 Fremont Street Monterey, CA 93940-4799
Melissa Pickford, Curator
More info at: mpickford@mpcgallery.com
831 646-3060
Receptions for the artist:
Thursday, Oct. 6, 2011 from 12:30 – 2 pm
&
Saturday, Oct. 8, 2011 from 3 – 5 pm
Gallery Hours: Tues-Fri 11am - 4pm or by appointment
Admission: Free
Parking: 4 quarters
Catalog Available:
Please Note:
Also in the gallery under the tandem title Humanitas: Paintings by Cynthia Grilli.
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