Speed of Life

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...

THIS is the PETA #SuperBowl ad the @NFL apparently didn’t want you to see and pressured @FOXSports to snub. It envisions a world where respect is the right of every being and pays homage to Kaepernick and movements rejecting injustice. https://t.co/kD1osnKhuX #EndSpeciesism pic.twitter.com/clXzU79aZV — PETA (@peta) January 31, 2020 PETA #SuperBowl ad the @NFL   apparently didn’t want you to see and pressured @FOXSports   to snub. It envisions a world where respect is the right of every being and pays homage to Kaepernick and movements rejecting injustice. http:// peta.vg/2plb #EndSpeciesism

Gregg Chadwick Kids Who Die (Ferguson to Baltimore)  24”x48” oil on linen 2015 inspired by Langston Hughes and the #BlackLivesMatter movement  https://www.facebook.com/colorofchange/videos/10153460650661067/ Kids Who Die by Langston Hughes This is for the kids who die, Black and white, For kids will die certainly . The old and rich will live on awhile , As always, Eating blood and gold, Letting kids die. Kids will die in the swamps of Mississippi Organizing sharecroppers Kids will die in the streets of Chicago Organizing workers Kids will die in the orange groves of California Telling others to get together Whites and Filipinos, Negroes and Mexicans, All kinds of kids will die Who don't believe in lies, and bribes, and contentment And a lousy peace . Of course, the wise and the learned Who pen editorials in the papers, And the gentlemen with Dr. in front of their names White and black, Who make surv...

by Gregg Chadwick "As every cell in Chile will tell, the cries of the tortured men. Remember Allende in the days before, before the army came. Please remember  Víctor  Jara, in the Santiago Stadium. Es Verdad, those Washington Bullets again." - from Washington Bullets , The Clash - 1980 "And in the world a heart of darkness, a fire zone. Where poets speak their heart , then bleed for it. Jara sang, his song a weapon, in the hands of love. Though his blood still cries from the ground." - from One Tree Hill , U2 - 1987 Víctor  Jara September 28, 1932 – September 16, 1973 Chilean Poet, Teacher, Theatre Director, Folk Singer, Songwriter, Political Activist photo courtesy Victor Jara Foundation   In Santiago, on the 40th anniversary of the CIA backed coup in Chile, Bruce Springsteen gave homage to Chilean poet and activist  Víctor  Jara  by performing Jara's poignant song Manifiesto . The 1973 Chilean coup ushered the brutal di...