Speed of Life

  I reorganized my paints yesterday after fervent months in the studio painting the work for Mystery Train. Tubes of oil paint squeezed into empty twisted shells and stray caps marked only by a tell tale ring of color  were discarded. Brushes, newly cleaned, stand at attention ready for new work. A clean glass palette now sits on top of a used stack of brightly daubed surfaces. Painting trains seems to bring daily reminders of change, of process, of journeys. When a train or plane turns around for its trip back home, there is little time for introspection. Vehicles are cleaned, engines refueled, often a new crew is added - new passengers and new travels await. As Mystery Train prepares to depart San Francisco, I ask you to celebrate with me at a closing party and artist talk on February 27th at the Sandra Lee Gallery (details below) if you are in the Bay Area. I have listed below a series of events, exhibitions, press, and more that give a glimpse into the excitement around My...

         Artist Talk and Closing Party for  Mystery Train  on Feb 27, 2016 2-4pm    Read more about  Mystery Train  in the Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathy-leonardo-/gregg-chadwicks-mystery-t_b_9203570.html?utm_hp_ref=arts&ir=Arts     A selection of Gregg Chadwick’s paintings from the   Mystery Train   series was exhibited at the Palm Springs Fine Art Fair from February 11-14 in the Sandra Lee Gallery booth. (Photo by   Eric Minh Swenson ) Gregg spoke at the booth on February 12, 2016.   Jersey Rain (Across the Tracks)   was illustrated in the catalog and Gregg’s talk was featured as well.

Mystery Train February 2 - 29, 2016 at Sandra Lee Gallery in San Francisco A Solo Exhibition of New Paintings   Opening Reception - February 4, 2016  5:30 - 7:30 pm Sandra Lee Gallery 251 Post Street, Suite 310 San Francisco, CA 94108 Click Here for More Images of Artwork in Mystery Train Read More on Mystery Train in the Wall Street International.  Link here -  http://wsimag.com/art/19040-gregg-chadwick-mystery-train

Gregg Chadwick Rio Grande 30"x40" oil on linen 2015 Happy Holidays! Hope to see all my Bay Area friends at the Sandra Lee Gallery in San Francisco on Dec 12, 2015 from 4-6 pm for the Annual Holiday Group Exhibition. My new painting Rio Grande will be exhibited for the first time! Rio Grande will be on view until the New Year.

Please Join Me This Upcoming Weekend  for  the 11th Anniversary of the Santa Monica Art Studios.  My studio #15 will be open with a display of new paintings in process. Saturday, October 17 from 6-9pm  Sunday, October 18 from 1-5pm 3026 Airport Boulevard, Santa Monica, CA 90405 Gregg Chadwick will be speaking at The Representational Art Conference on  November 2, 2015 in Ventura, California  From Tehran to Ferguson: Social Justice in Contemporary Representational Art (For more info please click here:  http://trac2015.org/gregg-chadwick/ ) Gregg Chadwick  Kids Who Die: From Ferguson to Baltimore 24"x48" oil on linen 2015 (Inspired by Langston Hughes & the #BlackLivesMatter Movement) Gregg Chadwick's Solo  Exhibition  Cinema  of Time Continues at Upper West through October 24, 2015 Upper West, 3221 Pico Boulevard, Santa Monica, CA 90405 Artist Gregg Chadwick Engages Hollywood in New Exhibition: "Cine...

Please join me this Saturday, July 26, 2014 at the Sandra Lee Gallery in San Francisco as I gather with a small group to discuss my new series "Revenant" - each painting holds a mysterious story where past and present meet. The event runs from 3:30 to 6:00 pm. Also, if you haven't seen it yet, please check out the review by Jeffrey Carlson in Fine Art Connoisseur: "Gregg Chadwick's Revenant" ( link here) before my talk. More details below:

Revenant    New Paintings by Gregg Chadwick   In folk mythology, a revenant is a being or force that returns from another level of existence to haunt the living. The paintings in my new series, Revenant, carry the ghosts of their former selves. Each work goes through an open-ended series of painting sessions. Surfaces are scraped down, over painted, and layered with transparent pigments.  Opaque swaths of color are brushed into the wet surface, leaving remnants of past figures and locations, while memories and future visions surge to the surface and overwrite the image.        Current science is discovering that our earliest memories of childhood may be pushed out or overwritten like computer code by the growth of neurons during our early years, which could help explain the mysterious memory lapses, what Freud called “infantile amnesia”, in our childhood memories. Often, for me, bits of these ghostly, fragmented memories po...

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by Gregg Chadwick  Oracle of Milan 40"x30" oil on linen 2014   Oracle of Milan is the first in an upcoming series of time lapse videos that document the stages and alterations inherit in my painting process. The first impression is key in the formation of an artwork and the opening frames of the video show that something dynamic is present in this new painting. I allow the painting to speak to me with visual clues that lead to new paths. Oracle of Milan was begun in June 2013. Over the past year, I have added and subtracted figures, colors, and elements to arrive at the last frames of the video which show the painting today. Is it finished? Is anything ever finished? Only time will tell.   The video is backed by The National's haunting song England, which has been on a National heavy playlist that has played throughout my painting sessions for Oracle of Milan .  

Gregg Chadwick Pennsylvania 4901 54”x54” oil on linen 2014                                                  Recent Events: Winter 2014 1. My paintings were featured in the Sandra Lee Gallery booth  at  the  Palm Springs Fine Art Fair -an international art fair held Feb 13-16, 2014  at the Convention Center in Palm Springs, California. 2. From January 9, 2014 until February 28, 2014, at the Sandra Lee Gallery in San Francisco, California, my paintings were included in a group exhibition along with work by Kathryn Arnold, Henry Jackson, Irena Kononova, Jeremy Morgan, Jeffrey Palladini, Hyun Su Park, Daniel Phill, George Rivera, Jungsan Senim and others.  3. I was recently interviewed by the  Los Angeles Business Journal   for an article about the Saatchi Art Gallery....

Gregg Chadwick l'Horloge   de  Baudelaire (Baudelaire's Clock)  40" x 30" oil on linen 2013 courtesy  Sandra Lee Gallery, San Francisco, California Opening on January 9, 2014, from 5:00-7:30pm, at the Sandra Lee Gallery in San Francisco, California is a new  group  exhibition  which  includes my artwork along with work by Kathryn Arnold, Henry Jackson, Irena  Kononova , Jeremy Morgan, Jeffrey  Palladini , Hyun Su Park, Daniel Phill, George Rivera,  Jungsan   Senim  and others. The exhibition runs until January 31, 2014. The Sandra Lee Gallery is located at:  251 Post Street, Suite 310, San Francisco, CA 94108 [t] 415.291.8000 art@sandraleegallery.com

Gregg Chadwick Night Swim, Kaufmann House 24"x30" oil on linen 2013 Courtesy Sandra Lee Gallery, San Francisco, California   On Friday, December 13th, we chased away the demons with an inspiring book reading   at Book Soup on Sunset in Hollywood with the presentation of Burning the Midnight Oil: Illuminating Words for the Long Night's Journey into Day , which includes my essay Night Painting.  Please join us at Book Passage in Corte Madera on December 18, 2013 at 7 pm for our next event. I will again be reading. This marvelous book, edited by Phil Cousineau, includes an inspiring array of essays and poems: including pieces by Vincent Van Gogh, Walt Whitman, Pico Iyer, Rabandranath Tagore, Mary Oliver, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Jorge Borges, William Blake, Mikkel Aaland, Kent Chadwick, Alexander Eliot, Jane Winslow Eliot, Li Po , Antler, Annie Dillard, Charles Bukowski, R B Morris, Willis Barnstone,  Bruce Chatwin, James Norwood Pratt, Tess ...

Sandra Lee and Artist Gregg Chadwick at artMRKT San Francisco , a photo by GreggChadwick on Flickr.

  GreggChadwick   Empire State 72"x36" oil on linen 2013 On View at artMRKT San Francisco May 16-19, 2013 Sandra Lee Gallery, San Francisco Booth #221

The Sandra Lee Gallery is pleased to invite you to an artist talk by Gregg Chadwick on Saturday, March 23rd, 2013 from 4 to 6 pm at the gallery. Chadwick will discuss the inspiration behind and the themes explored in his compelling artworks.  The exhibition is garnering great praise and has been reviewed by Fine Art Connoisseur  see full review at link -  http://www.fineartconnoisseur.com/Gregg-Chadwick-and-Painting-Time/15732772  )  and mentioned as a show not to miss by 7x7 Magazine  ( link at  http://www.7x7.com/arts-culture/four-sf-gallery-shows-see-week  ) And  Where San Francisco  writes: Sandra Lee Gallery  has a new exhibit this month:  Gregg Chadwick  "The Time Between"--the paintings are simply majestic! #SFArt Please RSVP to  art@sandraleegallery.com  to reserve your spot. The event is Free and open to all interested in the arts. Sandra Lee Gallery 251 Post Street,...

Explore open studios, watch artful demonstrations, enjoy live music, food trucks and family friendly activities. Painting, sculpture, ceramics, and mixed media will be represented and many artists will be selling work from their studios and offering refreshments.  More than 60 local artists and performers will have their private studios and works on view. The airport has developed over time into an arts incubator, and is home to a number of creative venues housed in converted airplane hangars. click here to view the full  ARTWALK PROGRAM ARENA 1   presents: Decade of Dissent: Democracy in Action, 1965-1975 ,  an exhibition featuring protest posters that reveal the persuasive power of art to inspire ideals of democracy.   www.arena1gallery.com 12:30pm GUIDED TOUR  with Carol Wells, founder of the  Center for the Study of Political Graphics , the largest repository of post–World War II ...