Please Join Gregg Chadwick at Whiplash at the Propeller Gallery at the Santa Monica Airport

Gregg Chadwick Love in the Time of Kamala 48" x 48" oil on linen 2024    Santa Monica Cultural Affairs, in collaboration with Art at the Airport, is proud to announce the opening of WHIPLASH: Art In The Ever-Changing Now, a group exhibition that explores the profound and dynamic shifts shaping our world today. Curated by Rebecca Youssef, Alexandra Dillon, and April Banks, this exhibition offers a reflective exploration of our times, showcasing the ways contemporary artists interpret and respond to the rapid transformations that affect societal norms, cultural identities, environmental crises, and political divisions.  It's helpful, if possible, to RSVP in advance at  https://whiplashexhibition.eventbrite.com (To anticipate the number of visitors.)   Exhibition Opening Saturday, October 26, 2024 from 4 - 7 PM Location: Propeller Gallery, 3026 Airport Avenue Santa Monica, CA 90405   Free to all. Feel free to invite friends and family. All ages are welcome! Free Parking on Site   Art at its best possesses 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 others. Art creates dialogue. Dialogue promotes reflective discussion. And reflection can lead to change. My paintings are crafted as reflecting devices that mirror and focus the viewer’s attention on where we've been, and where we are going in the United States. As Marvin Gaye sang so poignantly - “What’s going on.” Often the big stories in my artwork are inspired by the rhythms and ideas found in music, literature, history, politics, and film. One of my collectors has described me as an artistic chronicler of our times. He finds threads of current events and pop culture woven into the philosophical and spiritual undercurrents of my art.  My new oil on linen painting Love in the Time of Kamala, which will be exhibited in Whiplash, engages the viewer in a scene of hope, perhaps irrational but heartfelt, as a couple embraces and the world turns around them. Can the United States live up to its grand ideals?                                             - Gregg Chadwick, October 2024 "In old Arabic poetry love, song, blood and travel appear as four basic desires of the human heart and the only effective means against our fear of death. Thus, travel is elevated to the dignity of the elementary needs of humankind." - Czeslaw Milosz on the poetry of travel Movement, travel and pilgrimage are themes that often appear in my paintings. Travel can involve a physical relocation or it can exist in the realm of the senses. I attended "A Gathering of Hearts Illuminating Compassion," an interfaith meeting in San Francisco. The Dalai Lama was the keynote speaker at the event. He entered the packed hall, briskly moved up the center aisle, but stopped briefly to greet an elderly Tibetan woman a few feet from where I was seated. Then the Dalai Lama suddenly spun around and, with a beatific smile, gazed deeply and directly into my eyes. I was transfixed. The moment was short, but to me it felt as if all time collapsed within that point. For that moment, it seemed as if the Dalai Lama yearned to see with my eyes as I, in turn, learned to see through his. I have been working on this painting ever since to put my experience of that moment of empathy and connection down on canvas.                                                           – Gregg Chadwick UPDATE: A large scale banner of my painting Through Tibetan Eyes has been installed on the Airport Avenue side facade of the Hangar at 3026 Airport Avenue, Santa Monica, CA 90405

Gregg Chadwick Through Tibetan Eyes 72" x 96" oil on linen 2006- 2024

Gregg Chadwick Kamala - Purple Reign 30" x 22" 300 lb (640 gsm)watercolor paper 2024 This artwork and more will be on view in my studio - open before, during, and after, the event. More of my artworks available as prints featured in the Saatchi Art Collection: Figurative Political Art Prints For Sale By Artists Featured In The Other Art Fair

Two Straws

Gregg Chadwick

Two Straws

24"x36" oil on linen 2023

The fresh fragrance of linseed oil and linen fills my studio as I just put some finishing touches on new work. My oil on linen painting "Two Straws" is a short story in paint.
A woman sits at a table in a diner with an empty seat across from her. On the table is a milkshake with two straws. Will her companion return? What do you think will happen in the next scene?

"Two Straws" is the latest cinematic painting in my L.A. Stories series that explores the wonderfully diverse and sprawling city of Los Angeles.

See this artwork and more at our upcoming evening Open Studio Art at the Airport event on May 13, 2023 from 5-9 PM.

 

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Wonderful Arts Management Opportunity in Santa Monica

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New Arts Opportunity: RFP - Santa Monica Airport Art Studios Programming
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Mystery Train at 10th Annual Santa Monica Airport Artwalk

Fresh from my solo exhibition at the Sandra Lee Gallery in San Francisco and the Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, a number of paintings from my current series of train inspired artworks will be on view at the Santa Monica Art Studios on March 12, 2016 from 12-5 pm as part of the 10th Annual Santa Monica Airport Artwalk.  

Gregg Chadwick’s Mystery Train and Open Studio

SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 2016

12-5 PM

Studio #15

Santa Monica Art Studios

3026 Airport Ave., Santa Monica, CA 90405

Free parking outside the hangar.

More on Mystery Train at www.greggchadwick.com

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