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Gregg Chadwick Connoisseurs (Getty Museum)  24"x22"   acrylic, watercolor, pastel, and Conté on paper   2025 My artwork Connoisseurs (Getty Museum)  was inspired by my love of museums and the beautiful folks that spend contemplative time engaging in the life affirming creations housed in these treasure houses. In the past four months, I have visited the Getty Museum in Los Angeles multiple times to bask in the collected works of Gustave Caillebotte in the marvelous exhibition "Gustave Caillebotte: Painting Men" which closed on Sunday, May 25, 2025. I was at the Getty, on both opening and closing days for this inspiring show.  In my view museums are wonderfully equipped to inspire human connections and mutual understanding through art. "Connoisseurs (Getty Museum)" is richly painted in layers of acrylic colors imported from Australia, Schminke watercolors from Germany, and Sennelier pastels & Conté crayons from France on 100% cotton deckled paper from S...

Blue Velvet (David Lynch) 30"x24" oil on linen 2025 by Gregg Chadwick My oil on linen painting "Blue Velvet (David Lynch" is an homage to a visionary director and his artistic vision. Lynch thought of Los Angeles as a place of hidden mysteries and breathtaking light. Lynch said: “What I really like about {Los Angeles} if you drive around – especially at night – you can get a little gust of wind of the great days of the silver screen. All there in, like, living memory... it was an incredible place to be at the beginning of cinema.” In my artwork, David Lynch stands beneath the Aero Theater marquee in Santa Monica, California which is emblazoned with the words - "David Lynch's Blue Velvet, Sold Out." Just days after his death, the American Cinematheque held a special screening in his honor. I walked up to the Aero to honor the memory of David Lynch. As I arrived the sun was setting across the Pacific and an elegiac glow lit up the theater on Montana Aven...

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.   #art   #SantaMonica   #SantaMonicaArt   #contemporaryart   #worksonpaper   #artattheairport   #oilonlinen   #diner   #milkshake

Pleased to let you know that tomorrow, March 9, 2023 from 12 noon to 1pm as part of @18thstreetarts ongoing Professional Development Series, I will discuss applying for and hosting a booth at The Other Art Fair. Please join me as I describe what it is like to host a booth at The Other Art Fair, what you need to do to apply, costs involved, and some hints on best practices for hosting your own booth. Artists in residence at 18th Street Arts Center, get the Zoom link in the Artist Portal. Borderless members, get the Zoom link on Patreon or on the Borderless membership portal. More on joining Borderless for as little as $5 at this link - https://www.patreon.com/18thstreetarts?utm_source=https%3A%2F%2F18thstreet.org%2Farts-professional-2%2F&utm_medium=patreon_wordpress_plugin&utm_campaign=6141761&utm_term=&utm_content=creator_profile_link_in_text_over_interface Hope to see you via Zoom tomorrow! #art #TheOtherArt Fair #SantaMonicaArts #GreggChadwick #18thStreetArtsCenter #c...

  Gregg Chadwick Home Guard (112th Territorial Defense Brigade - Kyiv, Ukraine) 20"x16" oil on linen 2022 One year ago on Feb 24, 2022 - Russia launched its full scale genocide in Ukraine and 9 years ago this week Russia began its operation to illegally annex Crimea. My painting "Home Guard (112th Territorial Defense Brigade - Kyiv, Ukraine)" is an homage to the brave Ukrainians fighting against an immoral and illegal invasion by Putin's Russia. I remember as a young boy when my father left for war as a US Marine. I can see in the faces of the kids and partners in Ukraine the same mix of fear and pride I felt as my dad told me that he was leaving home to fight for freedom. Ukrainians live in a democratic society that values diversity and opportunity for all. Many couples have decided to fight together against Putin's invasion. Putin wants to crush Ukraine. But he will never prevail against these brave heroes protecting their homeland. In 2015 at the Venice B...

  Gregg Chadwick Carpe Librum (Maastricht) 48"x36"oil on linen 2021 It is so wonderful when a collector shares their reactions and photos of new artworks in their home. Today  @danialexlune  was surprised by her amazing husband Dave with my painting "Carpe Librum (Maastricht)" The painting is featured in  @art_squat  magazine's new interview with me in their 3rd Issue released today - December 25, 2021.  Link at  http://www.art-squat.com/articles3/Gregg_Chadwick/index.php In the interview I explain that "in the past few years, a magnificent bookstore in Maastricht, The Netherlands  ( @boekhandel_dominicanen ) has inspired a group of my oil paintings and works on paper. I exhibited my latest painting in this series, "Carpe Librum (Maastricht)", at The Other Art Fair at Barker Hangar in September 2021. I find that writers in particular are intrigued by this homage to the world of books and learning." #art   #HappyHolidays   #merrychristmas...

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...

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Gregg Chadwick Dogtown 17"x17" oil on panel 2014  My painting  Dogtown  will be featured in the Silent Art Auction at the  35th Anniversary of the Venice Art Walk and Auctions  which will take place on Sunday, May 18, 2014 at Google Los Angeles in the Frank Gehry designed Binoculars Building. The painting is available for pre-bidding on the auction site Paddle 8 with a select group of donated artworks.  http://paddle8.com/auctions/veniceartwalk   100% of the proceeds from the sale of my painting go to help fund the Venice Family Clinic’s comprehensive health care program for the low-income and uninsured.  Direct Link at:  https://paddle8.com/work/gregg-chadwick/31720-dogtown More at: Sunday, May 18th, Celebrate 35 Years of the Venice Art Walk &amp ; Auctions!

Gregg Chadwick New York Minute 74"x44" oil on linen 2013

Gregg Chadwick Ashland and Main 24"x18" oil on linen 2013

Gregg Chadwick Specific Fiction ( sonoba shōsetsu) 18" x 12" oil on linen 2013 Currently on exhibit in my solo show,  The Time Between , at the  Sandra Lee Gallery  in San Francisco, California.

Gregg Chadwick Una Poesia di Rosso (A Poem of Red) 24"x20" oil on panel 2013 Currently on exhibit in my solo show, The Time Between , at the Sandra Lee Gallery in San Francisco, California.

The Time Between Paintings by Gregg Chadwick March 5 - March 30, 2013 Sandra Lee Gallery 251 Post Street, Suite 310 San Francisco, California 94108 www.sandraleegallery.com 415 291-8000 art@sandraleegallery.com Reception for the artist: Thursday, March 7, 2013 from 5:30 – 7:30 pm Catalog Available With Essay by Peter Clothier The Time Between: Paintings by Gregg Chadwick  

Gregg Chadwick Occupy 40"x30" oil on linen 2012 I am pleased to invite you to the 8th Anniversary Celebration of the Santa Monica Art Studios at the Santa Monica Airport. Come by this weekend - Saturday, October 13th from 6-9PM and Sunday, October 14th from 1-5 PM for a sneak peek at my new work in Studio #15 and the other amazing artists in our 22,000 square foot art laboratory. Gregg Chadwick Studio #15 3026 Airport Avenue Santa Monica, CA 90405

Gregg Chadwick The Crossing 72"x36" oil, monotype and collage on Japanese Torinoko paper 2010 The morning of my last day on a trip to Thailand, was particularly luminous. I got up especially early and wandered through the alleys of Chiang Mai, following some monks on their serene morning pilgrimage. The light was almost incandescent and the blur of movement seemed to create paintings for me. I just needed to pay attention. To really see. I spent the time on the short flight to Bangkok watching a kind of film playing in my mind of saffron robes scintillating in the morning mist. Later, as I waited for my connecting flight to San Francisco, I caught sight of a different clip on a television monitor as the second plane crashed into the World Trade Center. It was September 11, 2001. I felt the horror of the crowd as we watched in disbelief. I longed for home and my son. Weeks later when finally back in my studio, the juxtaposition of the monks’ serenity in Thailand that day and...