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Spotted one of my favorite local artists @greggchadwick displayed At LA Union Station pic.twitter.com/aZMV7gVSau
— Theo Marshall (@ImTheoMarshall) April 14, 2023
Wednesday, January 04, 2023
Homage to Isherwood - Berlin Diary
by Gregg Chadwick
Painted as an homage to Christopher Isherwood, "Berlin Diary" depicts a fleeting moment in a city of dreams. As I created this artwork, I listened to the haunting soundtrack from the film "A Single Man" based on an Isherwood novel set in Los Angeles. Painted in ink and gouache over a monotype substrate, "Berlin Diary" combines vibrant color and movement to create a scene of mystery and possibility. Isherwood's life in Berlin from 1929 to 1933 inspired his "The Berlin Stories" which was adapted into a play, a film, and the musical Cabaret. In 1939 he moved to the United States as war loomed in Europe and settled in Los Angeles. Isherwood's life and work helped spur on the gay rights movement. Isherwood's books include the novel "A Single Man" and his autobiography, "Christopher and His Kind." Isherwood died of cancer on January 4, 1986. Isherwood and his lifelong partner artist Don Bachardy were fixtures for years in the Los Angeles artistic community. Author Peter Clothier recently wrote this on his admiration for Isherwood:
"Isherwood’s early stories and poems were the first I read that spoke directly and personally to a teenage boy who was struggling to find his own voice, his own individuality as a writer as well as his own place in the world. I gobbled up his “Goodbye to Berlin” and “Mr. Norris Changes Trains” as though I had written them myself. Later combined as “The Berlin Stories”, they were clearly fiction only in name, novels that so intimately described personal experience that their main character was called, frankly, Christopher. As a writer, Isherwood saw himself as the hub of everything that happened around him and his work invited this young admirer, gave him permission to do the same."
Isherwood and Bachardy in front of Hockney's portrait
Photo by Calvin Brodie
via The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Like Peter Clothier, I began reading Isherwood when I was in my late teens. I was at UCLA and became intrigued by Isherwood and Bachardy while looking at reproductions of David Hockney's 1968 portrait of the two of them.
On the occasion of a brilliant reading of Isherwood and Bachardy's letters at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's MetLiveArts, actor Simon Callow said this about the portrait:
"When David first painted it, he and Christopher were beacons as gay men who were comfortably and unapologetically out at a time when that was very uncommon. It was the apparent effortlessness of it that made it so striking: their relationship was no big deal, they seemed to be saying. So this wonderful double portrait of a gay couple was, in its cool and unaggressive way, an affirmation of the normality of homosexuality, which was somehow even more radical than the already gathering voices of the militants. In a sense, Hockney and Isherwood and Bachardy were saying: 'Some people are gay. Get over it.' Like its 18th-century models, the portrait celebrates the quotidian: being gay doesn't have to be a drama."
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Tuesday, December 14, 2021
Portrait of Frida Cano (E Line)
by Gregg Chadwick
For the Metro project "We Are…Portraits of Metro Riders by Local Artists", I painted a portrait of artist, writer, and curator Frida Cano.
Like a steel river, Metro’s E Line connects arts institutions across Los Angeles County. Running from 7th Street in Downtown L.A. to Santa Monica, the E train begins just down Bunker Hill from LA MOCA and the Broad Museum and passes by numerous art cultural centers from the California African-American Museum, to the art gallery districts in West Adams and Culver City, to the Sawtelle Corridor, to Bergamot Station, to the 18th Street Arts Center, ending a few miles from the Ocean Park neighborhood in Santa Monica that inspired artists from Richard Diebenkorn to John Baldessari.
Frida Cano lives in Echo Park and often travels on the E Line to her art curatorial position in Santa Monica. Frida lives and breathes the concerns of our times. She writes,” As an emerging Mexican artist and curator, focused on the reevaluation of history and culture through Latin American perspectives, it has been my concern to truly communicate the social issues of our times.” Frida rides the train and sees the world reflected in the glass of the E Line as she travels across L.A. Frida believes that art curators, in tandem with artists and critics, can bring circulating and hidden ideas to light. This zeitgeist informed my portrait of Frida Cano, pictured thinking as she waits for the E train.
"We Are...Portraits of Metro Riders by Local Artists" on view in the Union Station Passageway Art Gallery and in an expanded online gallery celebrates diversity and the community of transit riders. We Are... launches more upcoming programs in 2022 across multiple formats and sites ranging from including buses, trains and stations in Los Angeles County. The program will include even a special Metro Art Bus! Plus, the exhibit will be accompanied by all-ages community engagement programs, including tours, talks, and more. This multi-site exhibition and series of events is presented by Metro Art in collaboration with Metro’s Office of Civil Rights, Racial Equity & Inclusion and Communications departments. #Art #Trains #Metro #LosAngeles #GreggChadwick
See more at https://art.metro.net/artworks/exhibitions/weare/
Official We Are... Call to Action – IG/FB/Twitter: We Are... a community of riders. Join in Metro’s portrait exhibition! Tag a selfie #SomosWeAre and share your journey.
WE ARE… PORTRAITS OF METRO RIDERS BY LOCAL ARTISTS
PASSAGEWAY ART GALLERY EXHIBIT AT UNION STATION NOW OPEN
Metro riders are invited to contribute selfies and personal stories of transit using the hashtag #SomosWeAre
Celebrating the diversity of Los Angeles County and the community of transit riders, We Are…Portraits of Metro Riders by Local Artists is an exhibition featuring portraits presented throughout the Metro system and online. Each rider portrait has a story that is personal and universal, intimate and immediate— a single story among the many stories of 840,000 daily riders on Metro, and each told by an artist with ties to neighborhoods served by Metro.
The We Are… exhibition displays 35 new artworks in the Union Station Passageway Art Gallery along with additional artworks in an expanded online gallery.
To view all images in the online We Are gallery, click here.
Featured artists in the Passageway Art Gallery are Aiseborn, Eric Almanza, Kristina Ambriz, Jazmine Atienza, Susu Attar, Christen Austin, Moses X. Ball, Daniel Barajas, Chelle Barbour, April Bey, Javier Carrillo, Carolyn Castaño, Gregg Chadwick, Sean Cheetham, Cat Ferraz, Carla Jay Harris, Alepsis Hernández, Bodeck Luna Hernandez, Lanise Howard, Bryan Ida, Sheila Karbassian, Kaylynn Kim, Miles Lewis, José M. Loza, Cody Lusby, Rosalind McGary, Samuel Pace, Maria Piñeres, Adele Renault, LP Ǽkili Ross, Carlos Spivey, Edwin Ushiro, Dave Van Patten, J Michael Walker, Angela Willcocks.
Friday, September 17, 2021
You Are Invited to Gregg Chadwick's Exhibit at The Other Art Fair
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Sunday, August 01, 2021
Los Lobos - “Native Son” (Official Music Video)
Los Lobos, from left, is Cesar Rosas, Louie Pérez, David Hidalgo, Conrad Lozano and Steve Berlin.
(Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
Saturday, July 17, 2021
Madam Wong's
Gregg Chadwick
Madame Wong's
30"x22"gouache on paper 2021
"Esther Wong had the foresight to seize upon a mythic time in Los Angeles rock history, and her willingness to be open to fresh music that was far removed from her own life experiences helped transform L.A.'s musical landscape. And for that she should be remembered." - Nikki Darling
My gouache on paper painting "Madame Wong's" looks back on Los Angeles music history as New Wave and Punk exploded upon the scene. Esther Wong opened her groundbreaking Chinatown club in 1978. Notable bands that she showcased included Los Lobos, The Knack, The Police, The Motels, The Members, Fishbone, The Go-Go's, X, The Alley Cats, The Bangs, Oingo Boingo, Los Illegals, Candy, Guns N' Roses, Black Flag, Daniel Amos, Fear, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and the Ramones.
Madame Wong's is part of a new series of paintings crafted as magic lenses that combine the past, present, and future of Los Angeles. The clear daylight of Los Angeles brought the movie studios out west. And the neon soaked nocturnal light lured writers into the shadows of L.A. As a 17 year old art student at UCLA, I embraced the flickering cinematic light of Hollywood and the poetic light of night and day in the City of Angels. I am continuously inspired by the diversity, history, and beauty of greater Los Angeles.
Available at Saatchi Art and Singulart.
Please Note: This artwork is painted on a 30"x22" sheet of paper and the image size is 18"x12" so a nice clean border surrounds the image.
Original Created:2021
Subjects:Music
Materials:Paper
Styles:Art Deco Figurative Fine Art Impressionism Modern
Mediums:Gouache Monotype
Monday, August 19, 2019
Einstein's Dreams
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Gregg Chadwick Einstein's Dreams 48"x36" oil on linen 2019 |
Good Morning! Things move at the speed of light in my studio. Getting ready for my next exhibition. Excited to let you know that I will have a booth at The Other Art Fair September 5-8, 2019 in Santa Monica at Barker Hangar.
And I will be exhibiting at the inaugural The Other Art Fair in Dallas September 19-22, 2019.
My new painting “Einstein’s Dreams” shifts the focus to the nature of time itself.
@theotherartfair #TheOtherArtFair #LosAngeles #art#science #Physics #artistsoninstagram #MondayMotivation#Timeflux
#art #categoricallynot#kccole #greggchadwick
Friday, June 15, 2018
Families Belong Together - We Must Stop the Inhumane Separation of Migrant Children from Their Parents by the Trump Administration
"My heart goes out to the other mothers who are still aching for their children. I pray for them to have strength, and that they encounter people who can help carry their spirits, like the other women in the detention facilities did for me. In the face of such cruelty, it made all the difference." - Mirian G.
by Gregg Chadwick
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| Families Belong Together March- Los Angeles, June 14, 2018 photo by Gregg Chadwick |
My family joined the thousands who gathered, listened and marched nationwide yesterday to protest the Trump Administration's inhumane separation of children from their parents when they seek asylum in the United States. The ACLU explains:
"Homeland Security – in collaboration with Jeff Sessions’ Justice Department – is cruelly separating families at the border for no legitimate reason. Immigration authorities have separated THOUSANDS of children from their families. Some children, like the son of someone in our lawsuit, are as young as 18 months old.
We know the government will bend to public pressure because they have already reunited one asylum seeker with her child after more than 65,000 activists like you signed the petition. Now we need to make sure our members of Congress take action to end this cruel practice once and for all. Let’s reunite every family the Trump administration tore apart – and make sure this never happens again."
Families Belong Together March- Los Angeles, June 14, 2018
photo by Gregg Chadwick
“We are fighting for the heart and soul of America,” Yolanda Varela Gonzalez, teacher and activist, told us yesterday as we gathered in MacArthur Park before the march. The crowd, many carrying protest signs, peacefully moved up Alvarado Street and then down 6th Street as we made our way to an immigrant detention center in downtown Los Angeles. “No hate! No fear! Immigrants are welcome here!” we chanted as we marched. Many of the commuters stuck in evening traffic honked and waved in solidarity.
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Families Belong Together March- Los Angeles, June 14, 2018
photo by Gregg Chadwick |
In contrast to the goals of our march, this morning, Republican Senator Graham admitted on CNN to Kate Bolduan that Trump's goal in ripping terrified children from their desperate parents is deterrence. As Senator Kamala Harris pointed out today,"Let’s call this policy of indiscriminately separating children from their parents at the border exactly what it is: a human rights abuse being committed by the United States Government." This is state sponsored terrorism. Families belong together.
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Fact Check
As the Philip Bump in the Washington Post explains,"There is no 'Democrats’ law' that necessitates separating children from their parents. As people familiar with the rules regarding the handling of young people at the border made clear in interviews on Friday, the separation policy is a function of decisions made by Trump and his team. What’s more, the administration specifically implemented the policy to serve as a deterrent for those thinking about seeking entry to the United States." Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced on May 7, 2018 that the Homeland Security Department would begin referring all undocumented border crossings to the Justice Department - for prosecution. No matter what Trump, Sessions, or Sarah Huckabee Sanders says- there is no law stipulating that children be separated from their parents at the border. Via Politifact:
Before the Trump administration, immigrants entering illegally as families were rarely prosecuted, said Sarah Pierce, an associate policy analyst of the U.S. Immigration Program at the Migration Policy Institute. Instead, immigrants were held in family detention centers until they were sent to appear before an immigration court or deported.
As Ryan Bort says in Rolling Stone, "Ripping infant children from their mothers isn't simply a side effect of Trump's amorality. It's now been promulgated as the official position of the United States. These acts are not an exception to American values, they're the new American values."
This is why we gathered and marched yesterday. And why we must continue to fight back with all the tools that we have. Below I outline actions that we can take and resources that we can use. (Thanks to Tokyo Sand for your helpful thoughts and ideas.)
A two-year-old Honduran asylum seeker cries as her mother is searched and detained near the U.S.-Mexico border on June 12, 2018 in Mcallen, Texas. John Moore/GETTY IMAGES
How to Fight Back – Pressure Congress
Call, email, tweet Congress. Your two Senators and one Representative are in the best position to force the administration to abandon this new policy. Please contact them and ask them to immediately stop the separation of children from their parents at the border. Also ask them to support bills that will help reunited children already taken from their parents and also prohibit future removals. These include the Senate’s HELP Separated Children Act and Keep Families Together Act.
Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) has introduced The Keep Families Together Act (S.3036) which currently has 39 co-sponsors and is supported by American Academy of Pediatrics, Kids In Need of Defense (KIND), Young Center for Immigrant Rights and the Women’s Refugee Commission. Please call your Senators today and tell them you want them to support this bill.
Find their contact info at Contacting Congress or at Call Congress.
Also, you can contact ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) directly. Write to them here or call them at 1-866-DHS-2-ICE.
TIP: If your Senators or Representative aren’t on board, explain that you will call back regularly for updates on this issue. Then, tell them that this issue is so important to you, that if they do not act to end the separation of children from their parents, that you will actively work to get their opponent elected in November by raising money and speaking to every constituent you can get in front of.
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How to Fight Back –
Please Support These Organizations:
Please Support These Organizations:
The Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights The Young Center is a champion for the rights and best interests of unaccompanied immigrant children, making sure that wherever they land, whether here in the U.S. or in their home country, they are safe.Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) Advocates for children’s rights as they migrate alone.The Florence Project Free legal services to men, women, and unaccompanied children in immigration custody in ArizonaInformed Immigrant Understand your rights. The website is full of helpful information. Search for groups working on these immigration issues located near you hereRAICES Based in Texas, they offer free or low-cost legal services to immigrant children and families. They are seeking both donations and volunteers. Donate here and sign up as a volunteer here.Border Angels This organization advocates for humane immigration reform with a special focus on issues at the U.S.-Mexico border, particularly in San Diego County.The Texas Civil Rights Project is seeking “volunteers who speak Spanish, Mam, Q’eqchi’ or K’iche’ and have paralegal or legal assistant experience.”The ACLU is litigating this policy in California.If you’re an immigration lawyer, the American Immigration Lawyers Association will be sending around a volunteer list for you to help represent the women and men with their asylum screening, bond hearings, ongoing asylum representation, etc. Please sign up.Al Otro Lado is a binational organization that works to offer legal services to deportees and migrants in Tijuana, Mexico, including deportee parents whose children remain in the U.S.CARA — a consortium of the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, the American Immigration Council, the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, and the American Immigration Lawyers Association — provides legal services at family detention centers.Human Rights First is a national organization with roots in Houston that needs help from lawyers too.Kids in Need of Defense works to ensure that kids do not appear in immigration court without representation, and to lobby for policies that advocate for children’s legal interests. Donate here.The Legal Aid Justice Center Virginia based center providing unaccompanied minors legal services and representation.Pueblo Sin Fronteras is an organization that provides humanitarian aid and shelter to migrants on their way to the U.S.Together Rising is another Virginia-based organization that’s helping provide legal assistance for 60 migrant children who were separated from their parents and are currently detained in Arizona.The Urban Justice Center’s Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project is working to keep families together.Women’s Refugee Commission advocates for the rights and protection of women, children, and youth fleeing violence and persecution.ActBlue has aggregated many of these groups under a single button.CLINIC’s Defending Vulnerable Populations project offers case assistance to hundreds of smaller organizations all over the country that do direct services for migrant families and children.American Immigrant Representation Project (AIRP), which works to secure legal representation for immigrants.CASA in Maryland, D.C., Virginia, and Pennsylvania. They litigate, advocate, and help with representation of minors needing legal services.Freedom for Immigrants (Formerly CIVIC), which has been a leading voice opposing immigrant detention.The Michigan Immigrant Rights Center represents all of the immigrant kids placed by the government in foster care in Michigan (one of the biggest foster care placement states). About two-thirds are their current clients are separation cases, and they work to find parents and figure out next steps.The Northwest Immigrant Rights Project is doing work defending and advancing the rights of immigrants through direct legal services, systemic advocacy, and community education.The Women’s Refugee Commission has aggregated five actions everyone can take that go beyond donating funds.
International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) — which organizes law students and lawyers to develop and enforce a set of legal and human rights for refugees and displaced persons — just filed suit challenging the cancellation of the Central American Minors program.
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How To Fight Back –
Support Petitions and Calls to Action
Support Petitions and Calls to Action
The ACLU is gathering signatures to petition Kevin K. McAleenan, Commissioner of United States Customs and Border Protection to stop the government from abusing immigrant children. You can find the petition here.
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has recommended guidelines for human rights at international borders which you can read here. The reported actions our DHS is taking do not comply with these guidelines. You can contact the UN Office for Human Rights here.
Amnesty International has been calling for an end to the U.S. policy of separating children at the border. Their call to action can be found at the end of this post here. |
| Families Belong Together March- Los Angeles, June 14, 2018 photo by Gregg Chadwick |
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The Trump administration’s policy of separating families is designed to erase hope—with devastating consequences for thousands of children.
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