Showing posts with label NYC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NYC. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Wednesday, January 19, 2022
Gregg Chadwick at Van Der Plas Gallery
Excited to begin 2022 with my oil on panel painting "Tax the Rich" in a new group exhibition in New York's East Village at @vanderplasnyc. The exhibition opens January 20, 2022 6-8pm and runs until January 30, 2022 at the Van Der Plas Gallery, 156 Orchard Street, New York, NY 10002
Congressional Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez created headlines around the globe with her Tax the Rich Dress worn at the 2021 Met Gala.
The socially provocative dress was designed by Aurora James who said in the New York Times: "Listen, it would be a lot easier to go to the Met Gala and just wear a really beautiful dress and look really beautiful and have a good time. But that was not her intention, right? Her intention was to take a conversation that’s largely existing in working-class communities and bring it into rooms where that conversation might be a little bit more uncomfortable. It’s not easy to show up in a room like that, with a statement like that.
There’s a lot of people who gain access to rooms like that and are too afraid to rock the boat."
My painting celebrates AOC, Aurora James, and everyone rocking the boat.
Creating Reality: All Art+ features work by artists Kelly Ahern, Joseph Bernadas, Joseph Bauer, Laurie Buman, Renata Cabral, Kate Muehlemann Cataldo, Sauce Child, Catherine Clancy, Nicole Collie, Adama Coulibaly, Gregg Chadwick, Hugo Diaz, Trudi Esberger, Jose Maria Santos Ferreira, Ismael Rodriguez Fernandez, Arlene Finger, Anissa Fritz, Jacylyn Gordyan, Léa Hernando, Indigo, Mic Khan, Vidho Lorville, Ryla Louise, James Meunier, Stewart Milne, Jennifer Jean Okumura, Verónica Ordóñez, Stephanie Orudiakumo, Gabriele Scanziani, Jens Schaefer, Shanon Schneider, Darian Smith, Anabela Sobrinho, Ellen Verlinden, Kevin Vlainic, Suzanne Watters, Dylan Wilson, and Kira Wong.
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Thursday, October 27, 2016
An Elegy for Lou Reed
by Gregg Chadwick
I wrote this when I heard of Lou Reed's death in 2013. Three years on the thoughts still stand. Reposted as an elegy to an inspirational figure for so many.
"Lou Reed gave us the street and the landscape - and we peopled it."
- David Bowie in the documentary "Rock 'n' Roll Heart - Lou Reed"
Well hey, man, that's just a lie
It's a lie she tells her friends
'Cause the real song, the real song
Where she won't even admit to herself
The beatin' in her heart
It's a song lots of people know
It's a painful song
A little sad truth
But life's full of sad songs
Penny for a wish
But wishin' won't make you a soldier.
With a pretty kiss for a pretty face
Can't have it's way
Y'know tramps like us, we were born to pay
- From the beginning of the "Slipaway" section of Lou Reed's song Street Hassle.
Uncredited spoken vocals by Bruce Springsteen.
Reed's urban suite New York kept me close to the city I loved even as I moved west to California. On a trip back to Manhattan a few years later, a friend who had opened a restaurant in the Village told me that she thought that she had been given a sign that she would make it, because Lou Reed was becoming a regular at her joint.
Not long after, Reed and his song Why Can't I be Good rumbled across the screen in Wim Wenders' cinematic sequel to Wings of Desire - Far Away So Close. Lou Reed's future wife, performance artist, composer and musician Laurie Anderson, also provided powerful music for the film. On a recent artistic excursion to Berlin, memories of these two films and Reed's album Berlin brought to light elements of the city that I had missed in the past.
Much like an author will write about an event or a place to learn what they feel, I will create a series of artworks to understand what I have seen. I pushed my interaction with Berlin into a recent ongoing series of monotypes fueled partly by the visions of Lou Reed, Wim Wenders, Bertolt Brecht, and David Bowie,
As Gavin Edwards wrote in Rolling Stone,"While many musicians have made Berlin albums, Lou Reed's Berlin (1973) is the wrist-slashing standard against which they're all judged. When the record concluded with the epic ballad Sad Song, it felt like the whole world was shutting down." Berlin forces us to wrestle with the dead as we walk through its haunted and enchanted streets. After the fall of the wall, Berlin has come to embody the future while at the same time carrying the scars of the past. In the city of Berlin, the political and the personal merge, as evidenced in Lou Reed's Berlin album and David Bowie's recent song Where Are We Now?. In Berlin we are left with existential questions and are reminded that bodies age and die, marriages end, friendships dissolve and memories fade.
During the last years of his life, Lou Reed continued to work with and inspire younger musicians and artists. One of the most fruitful of these mentorship/collaborations was his work with Antony, of Antony and the Johnsons. John Hodgman in the New York Times recounts how the cover image of Antony's EP, I Fell in Love With a Dead Boy "caught the attention of the producer Hal Willner, who bought the EP and played it for Lou Reed, with whom he was working at the time:
'I said, 'Who is that?' Reed recalled. 'So we set out to find him, and he was a few blocks away as it turns out.' ''
Lou Reed invited Antony to tour with him throughout 2003, and every night Antony would sing Candy Says, Reed's haunting tribute to Candy Darling. Caught in the video below, Lou Reed, one of the most influential musicians of the rock era, looks across towards Antony with an expression of pride and wonder. Lou seems mesmerized by what he described as Antony's double tracking and unusual harmonies. Reed had said that he could listen to Antony sing all day. In this video we witness a legend passing on his wisdom and inspiration to another.
Antony and Lou Reed Perform Candy Says
More Videos Below:
Lou Reed & David Bowie Discuss Reed's Album Transformer
in the documentary "Rock 'n' Roll Heart - Lou Reed"
I wrote this when I heard of Lou Reed's death in 2013. Three years on the thoughts still stand. Reposted as an elegy to an inspirational figure for so many.
"Lou Reed gave us the street and the landscape - and we peopled it."
- David Bowie in the documentary "Rock 'n' Roll Heart - Lou Reed"
Well hey, man, that's just a lie
It's a lie she tells her friends
'Cause the real song, the real song
Where she won't even admit to herself
The beatin' in her heart
It's a song lots of people know
It's a painful song
A little sad truth
But life's full of sad songs
Penny for a wish
But wishin' won't make you a soldier.
With a pretty kiss for a pretty face
Can't have it's way
Y'know tramps like us, we were born to pay
- From the beginning of the "Slipaway" section of Lou Reed's song Street Hassle.
Uncredited spoken vocals by Bruce Springsteen.
 |
| Annie Leibovitz Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson Coney Island, New York, 1995 Silver Print
When I found out about Lou Reed's death yesterday morning from Rolling Stone's twitter feed I turned to my Lou Reed playlist and put Reed's cover of Blind Lemon Jefferson's haunting blues number - See That My Grave is Kept Clean along with Antony and the Johnsons' song with Lou Reed - Fistful of Love, and Reed's elegiac urban hymn Berlin, on repeat.
For many of us who came of age and under the influence of the New York City of the 1970's and 1980's, Lou Reed was New York. While at NYU working on my grad degree in art, Reed's music provided an aural map for my explorations across the city. Reed's staccato talk/singing proved to be a gruff yet tender guided tour through my artistic and lovelorn ventures. Often while on the A train, Marty Fogel's Junior Walker fueled sax riff on Reed's Shooting Star would blare in my walkman's headphones. And Walk on the Wild Side always seemed to accompany me across Washington Square. |
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| Gregg Chadwick Ghosts of New Amsterdam 24"x36" oil on linen 2013 |
Not long after, Reed and his song Why Can't I be Good rumbled across the screen in Wim Wenders' cinematic sequel to Wings of Desire - Far Away So Close. Lou Reed's future wife, performance artist, composer and musician Laurie Anderson, also provided powerful music for the film. On a recent artistic excursion to Berlin, memories of these two films and Reed's album Berlin brought to light elements of the city that I had missed in the past.
Much like an author will write about an event or a place to learn what they feel, I will create a series of artworks to understand what I have seen. I pushed my interaction with Berlin into a recent ongoing series of monotypes fueled partly by the visions of Lou Reed, Wim Wenders, Bertolt Brecht, and David Bowie,
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Gregg Chadwick Brecht's Song 30"x22" monotype on paper 2011 |
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Gregg Chadwick Rauch Licht (Smoke Light) 30"x22" monotype on paper 2011 |
'I said, 'Who is that?' Reed recalled. 'So we set out to find him, and he was a few blocks away as it turns out.' ''
Lou Reed invited Antony to tour with him throughout 2003, and every night Antony would sing Candy Says, Reed's haunting tribute to Candy Darling. Caught in the video below, Lou Reed, one of the most influential musicians of the rock era, looks across towards Antony with an expression of pride and wonder. Lou seems mesmerized by what he described as Antony's double tracking and unusual harmonies. Reed had said that he could listen to Antony sing all day. In this video we witness a legend passing on his wisdom and inspiration to another.
Antony and Lou Reed Perform Candy Says
More Videos Below:
Lou Reed & David Bowie Discuss Reed's Album Transformer
in the documentary "Rock 'n' Roll Heart - Lou Reed"
In an interview with Rolling Stone in 1989, Lou Reed explained that he and Bruce Springsteen were both recording albums at the Record Plant in New York City when an engineer suggested inviting Bruce over to record the "Slipaway" vocals on Reed's song Street Hassle. The last line was Reed's, written with Springsteen's Born to Run in mind:
Y'know tramps like us, we were born to pay
More at:
Lou Reed: The Rolling Stone Interview
Antony Finds His Voice
Y'know tramps like us, we were born to pay
More at:
Lou Reed: The Rolling Stone Interview
Antony Finds His Voice
 |
Lou Reed greets Chuck Close in front of Close's 2012 tapestry Lou
published by Magnolia Editions; photo by Amanda Gordon/Bloomberg
August 2013
|
Tuesday, November 05, 2013
Meet the De Blasios, New York City's New First Family
Monday, October 28, 2013
New York City Man - Lou Reed
by Gregg Chadwick
"Lou Reed gave us the street and the landscape - and we peopled it."
- David Bowie in the documentary "Rock 'n' Roll Heart - Lou Reed"
Well hey, man, that's just a lie
It's a lie she tells her friends
'Cause the real song, the real song
Where she won't even admit to herself
The beatin' in her heart
It's a song lots of people know
It's a painful song
A little sad truth
But life's full of sad songs
Penny for a wish
But wishin' won't make you a soldier.
With a pretty kiss for a pretty face
Can't have it's way
Y'know tramps like us, we were born to pay
- From the beginning of the "Slipaway" section of Lou Reed's song Street Hassle.
Uncredited spoken vocals by Bruce Springsteen.
Reed's urban suite New York kept me close to the city I loved even as I moved west to California. On a trip back to Manhattan a few years later, a friend who had opened a restaurant in the Village told me that she thought that she had been given a sign that she would make it, because Lou Reed was becoming a regular at her joint.
Not long after, Reed and his song Why Can't I be Good rumbled across the screen in Wim Wenders' cinematic sequel to Wings of Desire - Far Away So Close. Lou Reed's future wife, performance artist, composer and musician Laurie Anderson, also provided powerful music for the film. On a recent artistic excursion to Berlin, memories of these two films and Reed's album Berlin brought to light elements of the city that I had missed in the past.
Much like an author will write about an event or a place to learn what they feel, I will create a series of artworks to understand what I have seen. I pushed my interaction with Berlin into a recent ongoing series of monotypes fueled partly by the visions of Lou Reed, Wim Wenders, Bertolt Brecht, and David Bowie,
As Gavin Edwards wrote in Rolling Stone,"While many musicians have made Berlin albums, Lou Reed's Berlin (1973) is the wrist-slashing standard against which they're all judged. When the record concluded with the epic ballad Sad Song, it felt like the whole world was shutting down." Berlin forces us to wrestle with the dead as we walk through its haunted and enchanted streets. After the fall of the wall, Berlin has come to embody the future while at the same time carrying the scars of the past. In the city of Berlin, the political and the personal merge, as evidenced in Lou Reed's Berlin album and David Bowie's recent song Where Are We Now?. In Berlin we are left with existential questions and are reminded that bodies age and die, marriages end, friendships dissolve and memories fade.
During the last years of his life, Lou Reed continued to work with and inspire younger musicians and artists. One of the most fruitful of these mentorship/collaborations was his work with Antony, of Antony and the Johnsons. John Hodgman in the New York Times recounts how the cover image of Antony's EP, I Fell in Love With a Dead Boy "caught the attention of the producer Hal Willner, who bought the EP and played it for Lou Reed, with whom he was working at the time:
'I said, 'Who is that?' Reed recalled. 'So we set out to find him, and he was a few blocks away as it turns out.' ''
Lou Reed invited Antony to tour with him throughout 2003, and every night Antony would sing Candy Says, Reed's haunting tribute to Candy Darling. Caught in the video below, Lou Reed, one of the most influential musicians of the rock era, looks across towards Antony with an expression of pride and wonder. Lou seems mesmerized by what he described as Antony's double tracking and unusual harmonies. Reed had said that he could listen to Antony sing all day. In this video we witness a legend passing on his wisdom and inspiration to another.
Antony and Lou Reed Perform Candy Says
More Videos Below:
Lou Reed & David Bowie Discuss Reed's Album Transformer
in the documentary "Rock 'n' Roll Heart - Lou Reed"
"Lou Reed gave us the street and the landscape - and we peopled it."
- David Bowie in the documentary "Rock 'n' Roll Heart - Lou Reed"
Well hey, man, that's just a lie
It's a lie she tells her friends
'Cause the real song, the real song
Where she won't even admit to herself
The beatin' in her heart
It's a song lots of people know
It's a painful song
A little sad truth
But life's full of sad songs
Penny for a wish
But wishin' won't make you a soldier.
With a pretty kiss for a pretty face
Can't have it's way
Y'know tramps like us, we were born to pay
- From the beginning of the "Slipaway" section of Lou Reed's song Street Hassle.
Uncredited spoken vocals by Bruce Springsteen.
|
| Annie Leibovitz Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson Coney Island, New York, 1995 Silver Print
When I found out about Lou Reed's death yesterday morning from Rolling Stone's twitter feed I turned to my Lou Reed playlist and put Reed's cover of Blind Lemon Jefferson's haunting blues number - See That My Grave is Kept Clean along with Antony and the Johnsons' song with Lou Reed - Fistful of Love, and Reed's elegiac urban hymn Berlin, on repeat.
For many of us who came of age and under the influence of the New York City of the 1970's and 1980's, Lou Reed was New York. While at NYU working on my grad degree in art, Reed's music provided an aural map for my explorations across the city. Reed's staccato talk/singing proved to be a gruff yet tender guided tour through my artistic and lovelorn ventures. Often while on the A train, Marty Fogel's Junior Walker fueled sax riff on Reed's Shooting Star would blare in my walkman's headphones. And Walk on the Wild Side always seemed to accompany me across Washington Square. |
|
| Gregg Chadwick Ghosts of New Amsterdam 24"x36" oil on linen 2013 |
Not long after, Reed and his song Why Can't I be Good rumbled across the screen in Wim Wenders' cinematic sequel to Wings of Desire - Far Away So Close. Lou Reed's future wife, performance artist, composer and musician Laurie Anderson, also provided powerful music for the film. On a recent artistic excursion to Berlin, memories of these two films and Reed's album Berlin brought to light elements of the city that I had missed in the past.
Much like an author will write about an event or a place to learn what they feel, I will create a series of artworks to understand what I have seen. I pushed my interaction with Berlin into a recent ongoing series of monotypes fueled partly by the visions of Lou Reed, Wim Wenders, Bertolt Brecht, and David Bowie,
|
Gregg Chadwick Brecht's Song 30"x22" monotype on paper 2011 |
|
Gregg Chadwick Rauch Licht (Smoke Light) 30"x22" monotype on paper 2011 |
'I said, 'Who is that?' Reed recalled. 'So we set out to find him, and he was a few blocks away as it turns out.' ''
Lou Reed invited Antony to tour with him throughout 2003, and every night Antony would sing Candy Says, Reed's haunting tribute to Candy Darling. Caught in the video below, Lou Reed, one of the most influential musicians of the rock era, looks across towards Antony with an expression of pride and wonder. Lou seems mesmerized by what he described as Antony's double tracking and unusual harmonies. Reed had said that he could listen to Antony sing all day. In this video we witness a legend passing on his wisdom and inspiration to another.
Antony and Lou Reed Perform Candy Says
More Videos Below:
Lou Reed & David Bowie Discuss Reed's Album Transformer
in the documentary "Rock 'n' Roll Heart - Lou Reed"
In an interview with Rolling Stone in 1989, Lou Reed explained that he and Bruce Springsteen were both recording albums at the Record Plant in New York City when an engineer suggested inviting Bruce over to record the "Slipaway" vocals on Reed's song Street Hassle. The last line was Reed's, written with Springsteen's Born to Run in mind:
Y'know tramps like us, we were born to pay
More at:
Lou Reed: The Rolling Stone Interview
Antony Finds His Voice
Y'know tramps like us, we were born to pay
More at:
Lou Reed: The Rolling Stone Interview
Antony Finds His Voice
|
Lou Reed greets Chuck Close in front of Close's 2012 tapestry Lou
published by Magnolia Editions; photo by Amanda Gordon/Bloomberg
August 2013
|
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Thursday, May 09, 2013
Empire State
On View at artMRKT San Francisco
May 16-19, 2013
Sandra Lee Gallery, San Francisco
Booth #221
May 16-19, 2013
Sandra Lee Gallery, San Francisco
Booth #221
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Time Lapse Video of Hurricane Sandy Hitting New York City
Incredible time lapse video made by Richard Shepherd from stills grabbed from the New York Times webcam during Hurricane Sandy. I had the New York Times webcam on all day yesterday as well. My thoughts go out to the brave responders and all those dealing with this frightening, unprecedented storm. Climate change is real my friends.
Props to President Obama, FEMA, the Coast Guard, the National Guard, and all the courageous nurses, firefighters, police officers, EMT's and union workers of all stripes who kept so many safe.
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