Speed of Life

If you've been mesmerized by the DNC on TV, you can't imagine the vibes of being here - a political convention where a rave broke out. How Dems threw off 40 years of fear, found a voice, stopped caring about the media and started having fun My column🎁 https://t.co/VpSpsHFYM9 — Will Bunch (@Will_Bunch) August 22, 2024 Still thinking about this pic.twitter.com/cZhqFs5zvu — Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) August 22, 2024 Oldest DNC delegate: Each convention has been so exciting. But this one especially. It's for women. It's for everyone. It's something that I can't explain. I feel like the world is opening up to everybody, every color, every creed, and every woman pic.twitter.com/5JluNJQ41M — Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) August 22, 2024

  Gregg Chadwick Through Tibetan Eyes 72"x96" oil on linen 2006-2024 "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. In 2006 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, ...

Gregg Chadwick Poolside 20"x16"oil on linen 2022     Private Collection, Oxford, Connecticut Pleased that my painting "Poolside" has been sold by  @saatchiart  and successfully delivered to its new home near New Haven, Connecticut. It arrived in the midst of a record cold spell and hopefully brought warm memories of Spring and Summer along. Legs dangling in an aquamarine pool, drink in hand, and a book open to the right page. What is she reading? Perhaps because he was born on this day in 1946, French Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard's book "Happiness: "A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill" which explores how to develop happiness as a skill that includes acceptance of pain and struggle through a process of understanding, meditation, and breath. Or perhaps her book is a collection of Emily Dickinson's poetry? "Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at al...

  Gregg Chadwick New York Stories (Five Minutes to Midnight) 30"x 40" oil on linen  Happy New Year! 明けましておめでとうございます Akemashite Omedetou Gozaimasu In my painting "New York Stories" it’s five minutes to midnight. Waiting for 2022 to move into 2023 like the hands of a clock spinning into the next hour, figures move around the iconic Grand Central clock like foxes huddling beneath a tree in Andō Hiroshige's "New Year's Eve Foxfires at the Changing Tree, Ōji" It’s raining this New Year’s Eve in Santa Monica. I’m listening to a recording of a 10,000-member choir in Japan singing “Ode to Joy” in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Enthusiasm for Beethoven is particularly strong in Japan. Every year in December, singers gather in a concert hall in Osaka to sing the final chorus from Beethoven's Ninth. Gregg Chadwick Passing View of Shohei Bridge  30"x24" oil on linen 1990 Again , my thoughts trace a circuit from this moment back to an earlier New Yea...

  Gregg Chadwick Promenade 7"x5" oil on panel 2021 Private Collection, Austin, Texas Honored that my painting, Promenade , is included in the new Art for Someone You Love collection on Saatchi Art curated by Erin Remington (Assistant Curator at Saatchi Art). Erin writes,"Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock, Jacob Lawrence and Gwendolyn Knight––art history is full of extraordinary and remarkable love stories. Discover a new work in this collection of artworks inspired by passion, love, and all things romance." Collectors With Their New Painting at The Other Art Fair, Barker Hangar 2018 Gregg Chadwick  Love In a Blue Time 7"x5" oil on panel Private Collection, Los Angeles, California I enjoy painting couples. I continue to create a series of artworks depicting partners caught in moments of intimacy. Gregg Chadwick The Runners 5"x5" oil on panel 2018 Private Collection, Los Angeles With Valentine's Day coming up I woul...

It's never been a good idea to bet against America. And, there's nothing we can't do if we do it together. We are stronger today than we were a year ago. Watch our new video on the first year of the Biden-Harris Administration. In his inaugural address one year ago today, @POTUS committed to “press forward with speed and urgency, for we have much to do in this winter of peril and possibility.” In the year since, he and the @VP have made significant progress in the face of enormous challenges. pic.twitter.com/5YFbMnw3Pg — Barack Obama (@BarackObama) January 20, 2022

SEAMUS HEANEY Reads “The Cure at Troy” “History says, Don't hope on this side of the grave. But then, once in a lifetime the longed for tidal wave of justice can rise up, and hope and history rhyme.” Future US President Joe Biden often quotes these inspiring lines from Seamus Heaney's "The Cure at Troy" Hat Tip to Paul Holdengraber @holdengraber

Bravo! ❤️👏🏾 This school district's annual Choral Festival was canceled, so the students all sang their individual a cappella portion of "Over the Rainbow" in their separate homes, and put them together to create this masterpiece. pic.twitter.com/ch58d819uw — FierceWarriorNStilettos (@InactionNever) March 20, 2020 Chino Valley Unified School District's annual Choral Festival was canceled, so the students all sang their individual a cappella portion of "Over the Rainbow" in their separate homes, and put them together to create this masterpiece.

"One of the ways America will heal is through the arts." - Nancy Pelosi #cnntownhall @TeamPelosi — Gregg Chadwick (@greggchadwick) December 6, 2019 "The great instrument of moral good is the imagination". - Percy Shelley Quoted by Speaker Nancy Pelosi at #CNNtownhall @TeamPelosi https://t.co/y0ojIXJKma — Gregg Chadwick (@greggchadwick) December 6, 2019 This moment was made for Nancy Pelosi https://t.co/OsUXbU3JkS — Gregg Chadwick (@greggchadwick) December 6, 2019

by Gregg Chadwick Gregg Chadwick Bookseller's Night oil on linen 2018 After the Notre Dame Cathedral Fire - in the light of day- Our Lady is scarred but standing resiliently! Angela Merkel’s spokesperson responded with the Parisian motto: a Latin phrase that personifies Paris and Notre Dame as a ship: “Fluctuat nec mergitur”—“she is tossed by the waves but does not sink.” The saying has been Paris’ motto since the 14th century, about the time when Notre Dame was completed. With grateful feelings about Notre Dame and Paris, I am pleased to let you know that my Parisian inspired painting "Bookseller's Night" has been chosen by Rebecca Wilson, Chief Curator and VP, Art Advisory at Saatchi Art, for the New This Week collection.  Direct link at:  https://www.saatchiart.com/…/Painting-Bo…/25560/4792724/view Link to the collection at  https://www.saatchiart.com/…/New-This-We…/153961/280982/view My oil on linen painting "Bookseller's Night" wa...

by Gregg Chadwick I had the honor to watch Siddhali Shree's powerful documentary film "Stopping Traffic" at the Women Illuminated Film Festival on March 12, 2018 in New York.  Tonight - Wednesday, March 28TH at the North Hollywood Cinefest , Shree's important call to action will be screened and she will be on a directors panel.  Shree explains that now " with the instant reach of social media and the explosion in cyber porn, a child sex slave can be purchased online and delivered to a customer more quickly than a pizza." Shree's " Stopping Traffic: The Movement to End Sex Trafficking" does not hold back. It is at times raw in its dialogue and heart-wrenching as we hear stories from survivors.   Shree is the first North American Jain female-monk, a US Army Iraq veteran, international speaker, author, documentarian, and an activist for social justice. In her film she has gathered activists, front-line rescue and aid organizations, and justice ...

Barack Obama spoke in Virginia today. Watching him speak gave me the dosage of hope & inspiration I needed. Enjoy.🇺🇸 https://t.co/JDdSPDnncD — Ricky Davila 🇵🇷 (@TheRickyDavila) October 20, 2017

Video by Gregg Chadwick U2 "Miss Sarajevo" at the Rose Bowl - May 20, 2017 with powerful visuals commenting on the civil war in Syria. Moving snippet added by Bono at the end with the words at the base of the Statue of Liberty. There were many beautiful musical moments at the Rose Bowl, from Edge's chiming guitar, to Adam Clayton's deep, fat bass, to Larry Mullin's powerful drumming, to an engaged Bono. For much of the evening, U2 performed in front of a giant video screen filled with Corbijn's evocative new imagery, and later filmed tributes to women's rights and the plight of Syrian refugees. As Bono says to Andy Greene in  Rolling Stone , "Let's meet one such immigrant who he wants to turn away from the shore. I commissioned french artist J.R. He didn't have much time to do it. Where are we going to find this girl? He finds her in Zaatari in a camp in Jordan, which I visited with my daughter and [my wife] Ali a year ago. He finds...

by Gregg Chadwick Happy New Year 2017! It’s raining this New Year’s Eve in Santa Monica. The haunting voice of Gil Scott-Heron singing  Winter In America  fills our living room. My thoughts trace a circuit from this moment back to an earlier New Year in Japan as 1989 rolled into 1990. I was in Tokyo following the spirit and artworks of Ando Hiroshige. That winter in Japan, I clutched a large volume by Henry D. Smith II and Amy G. Poster on Hiroshige’s  One Hundred Famous Views of Edo   and trekked on rail, foot and car across the historic core of what was Edo era Tokyo. Sponsored by the Nippon Seiyu-Kai's 30th Anniversary Award, I endeavored to create a series of new paintings inspired by Hiroshige’s woodcuts. Time, place, memory, mystery and lore all mixed in my artworks. Gregg Chadwick Passing View of Shohei Bridge  30"x24" oil on linen 1990  Today, on the Brooklyn museum’s Tumblr page, Alison Baldassano posted a phot...