Speed of Life

LRM Online's Gig Patta spoke with guests Yareli Arizmendi and Sergio Arau on the red carpet at the premiere of The American Ballet Theater's Like Water for Chocolate. Nothing could be sweeter than the U.S. Premiere of Like Water for Chocolate for American Ballet Theatre’s Spring engagement at Segerstrom Center for the Arts. This full-length ballet created by the brilliant choreographer Christopher Wheeldon brings the famous novel by Laura Esquivel to mouth-watering life. Reuniting the award-winning team of Wheeldon (fresh from his Tony Award victory for MJ: The Musical) with composer Joby Talbot, and Tony-winning costume designer Bob Crowley, you’ll journey into the captivating family saga where the central character’s emotions spill out through cooking to influence everyone around her in startling and dramatic ways. Like Water for Chocolate tells the story of Tita, a young Mexican woman whose restrictive upbringing prevents her from marrying until her mother dies. Overwhelm...

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...

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...

by Gregg Chadwick Sergio meets Sergio! Thanks to everyone who came out to the Santa Monica Art Studios last night to see my exhibit  Luchador's Dream which was inspired by the incomparable Sergio Arau. El Presidente Sergio Arau with his portrait in my studio tonight! What an evening- thanks for all who stopped by tonight.  #art #music #Mexico #Luchador A post shared by Gregg Chadwick (@greggchadwick) on Sep 15, 2017 at 11:23pm PDT

by Gregg Chadwick Gregg Chadwick Flor De Asfalto (for Sergio Arau) 56”x86” oil on linen 2017 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 libre, Mexican wrestlers such as El Santo are defenders of the poor and vulnerable. By taking on the persona of the Luchador (wrestler), Josh Kun writes in Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America , Sergio Arau and his bands have mixed "the traditional with the contemporary, the rural with the urban, the American with the Mexican, the charro with the rockero."  My paintings in Luchador's Dream  carry Sergio Arau into a Los Angeles seemingly pulled from the lyrics of his songs or gathered from scenes of his f...

First Reveal - I have been working on this large painting 4.5 feet by 7.5 feet for quite a while now. Great thanks to @SergioArau and @YareliArizmendi for their art and inspiration. In process - "Ask the Dust (Sergio Arau)"  # literature   # art 🎨   # artistsoninstagram   # losangeles

I enjoyed this chat with Stephanie Case. Recorded in my studio, it provides a hint of the theme of compassion that runs through my artwork.  - Thanks for listening.

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...

Gregg Chadwick Portrait of Yareli Arizmendi 40"x30" oil on linen 2012 I recently completed a portrait of the immensely talented actress Yareli Arizmendi. “The function of art is to renew our perceptions. The role of the artist is not to say or show what we can all speak or see, but that which we are unable to reveal” –Anais Nin Born in Mexico, raised in the United States, Yareli Arizmendi coined a word, AmeXican to describe herself: "It is a declaration of identity for the 21st century; my own account on how I prepared to wage battle in a world spilling over its human-made borders," explains Yareli.

Arash Hejazi's website has been dumped by the authorities in Iran, but I caught a screenshot of it as I wrote a comment to Dr. Hejazi. My words do not capture the true heroism of Dr. Hejazi and the citizens of Iran, but in the spirit of witness I post them here after I reprint Arash Hejazi's moving words: Neda's Death. Eyewitness As you might have read on Paulo Coelho's blog, I was the doctor who tried to save Neda. I am the one who sent the video of her cruel death for the world to see. I am the person in the video who tries to control her bleeding ... in vain. I was the one who looked into her eyes, right before they lost their light forever. A famous Iranian writer called Sadeq Hedayet wrote, "There are sores which slowly erode the mind in solitude like a kind of canker." I have to live with this sore. But I am going to tell the story soon. I wrote a comment: Dear Dr. Hejazi, I am but a painter and can not attempt to feel your pain or anger. But I do want ...