Speed of Life

Krista Suh and Yareli Arizmendi get to the heart of the matter at #MeToo- Art and Feminism Now photo by MarySue Heilemann On Saturday, January 27th 2018 a vibrant panel discussion on #MeToo - Art and Feminism Now was held from 1-3pm at the Santa Monica Art Studios.  We gathered as artists, writers, musicians, actors, filmmakers and more to help discuss ideas on how to build a path forward.  Kathleen McHugh, Chair Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media at UCLA, Moderated the panel discussion. The panelists included: Actress/Writer Yareli Arizmendi (Like Water for Chocolate, A Day Without a Mexican) More at: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0034976 /.Artist/Activist  Michele Pred (Represented by Nancy Hoffman Gallery) More on Michele Pred at: http://michelepred.com/home.html .“Ms Pred's work is an important offering for its relevance to the times."- Supreme Court Justice, Sonia Sotomayor  Krista Suh - Krista is a feminist, artist, Ho...

by Gregg Chadwick MORE ART HERE Gregg Chadwick City Lights (Chaplin's Night) 48”x36” oil on linen 2017 This weekend stop by the Santa Monica Art Studios for our 2nd Annual Open Studios event: MORE ART HERE. Situated across the street from Art Los Angeles Contemporary Art Fair, and accessible via shuttle bus from the stARTup Art Fair ,  MORE ART HERE   provides an opportunity for you to see what is cooking in my studio. In my fourteen years at the Santa Monica Art Studios, I have opened my space to visiting collectors, art writers, students, local groups, scholars, and international guests. Visitors to my studio have included a bus load of Japanese nursing students from Tokyo, a group of academics from the University of Verona in Italy, professional art conservators from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and the Getty Museum, a group art meditation session led by noted art writer Peter Clothier, as well as numerous visits by ...

by Gregg Chadwick   Points of Departure  (An exhibition curated by Maurizzio Hector Pineda)    Gregg Chadwick Flor De Asfalto (for Sergio Arau)  50”x80” oil on linen 2018 (Installation View) "These studio artists offer a visual mediation of time, site, and process. In this time of maelstrom and uncertainty,   Points of Departure   offers a visual respite for viewers to depart from the daily noise of contemporary life." - Maurizzio Hector Pineda, Curator My painting   Flor De Asfalto (for Sergio Arau)   is featured in the Arena 1 exhibition Points of Departure.  With his music, words and images, Sergio Arau has inspired me to create a series of paintings that feature him as the main character in my painted movies. Rock Star, actor, director, screenwriter, and artist Sergio Arau has often performed while wearing gear honoring Mexico's most famous wrestling star El Santo (The Man In the Silver Mask). Known as lucha li...

Michele Pred  #MeToo  November 2017 Neon on Vintage Case 16" x 16" x 8" Courtesy the Nancy Hoffman Gallery "We stand on the precipice of a very dynamic time, and it’s up to us to decide whether this is a moment or whether it’s something that really instigates systemic change." -Ava DuVernay, speaking about the #MeToo and  Time's Up  movements. ( InStyle , Jan 3, 2018) Artists often use their creations as a sort of reflecting device that mirrors and focuses attention on social and political change.  Beyoncé 's powerful song    ***Flawless    features writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's fierce appreciation of feminism in the 21st century. Actresses and their allies wore black to the Golden Globes to protest sexual harassment in Hollywood. At Art Basel in Miami, Michelle Pred and Pussyhat Project founder Krista Suh led a  parade against patriarchy .   The Time's Up website challenges us with a call to action:...

Yep! The story behind Beyoncé's Flawless here:   'Flawless': The Full Story Your challengers are a young group from Houston Welcome Beyonce, Lativia, Nina, Nicky, Kelly, and Ashley The Hip-Hop Rappin' 'Girls Tyme' I'm out that H-town, coming, coming down I'm coming down dripping candy on the ground H, H-town, town, I'm coming down Coming down, dripping candy on the ground I know when you were little girls You dreamt of being in my world Don't forget it, don't forget it Respect that, bow down bitches I took some time to live my life But don't think I'm just his little wife Don't get it twisted, get it twisted This my shit, bow down bitches Bow down bitches, bow bow down bitches (Crown) Bow down bitches, bow bow down bitches (Crown) H Town bitches H, H Town bitches I'm so crown crown, bow down bitches I'm out that H, town, coming coming down I'm coming down, drippin' candy on the...

Gregg Chadwick The Future Is Woke 40”x30” oil on linen  2017 With millions of others, I marched this weekend in the #WomensMarch. Our crowd in Los Angeles numbered around 750,000.  The Future Is Woke  is the first in a series of paintings exploring this time of change. Artists often use their creations as a sort of reflecting device that mirrors and focuses the viewers attention on social and political change.  As Marvin Gaye sang so poignantly- “What’s going on.” As we carry the spirit of the Women's March forward: On Saturday, January 28th 2017, from 1-3pm at the Santa Monica Art Studios, a vibrant panel discussion on Art in the Time of Trump will be held.  Santa Monica Art Studios, 3026 Airport Avenue, Santa Monica CA 90405 Confirmed Panelists: Yareli Arizmendi - Actress/Screenwriter  http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0034976/ Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn - Senior Editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books...