Please Join Gregg Chadwick at Whiplash at the Propeller Gallery at the Santa Monica Airport

Gregg Chadwick Love in the Time of Kamala 48" x 48" oil on linen 2024    Santa Monica Cultural Affairs, in collaboration with Art at the Airport, is proud to announce the opening of WHIPLASH: Art In The Ever-Changing Now, a group exhibition that explores the profound and dynamic shifts shaping our world today. Curated by Rebecca Youssef, Alexandra Dillon, and April Banks, this exhibition offers a reflective exploration of our times, showcasing the ways contemporary artists interpret and respond to the rapid transformations that affect societal norms, cultural identities, environmental crises, and political divisions.  It's helpful, if possible, to RSVP in advance at  https://whiplashexhibition.eventbrite.com (To anticipate the number of visitors.)   Exhibition Opening Saturday, October 26, 2024 from 4 - 7 PM Location: Propeller Gallery, 3026 Airport Avenue Santa Monica, CA 90405   Free to all. Feel free to invite friends and family. All ages are welcome! Free Parking on Site   Art at its best possesses an uncanny ability to communicate ideas and feelings that we need to understand. It seems that especially in times of struggle or unrest, art helps us connect to the personhood of others. Art creates dialogue. Dialogue promotes reflective discussion. And reflection can lead to change. My paintings are crafted as reflecting devices that mirror and focus the viewer’s attention on where we've been, and where we are going in the United States. As Marvin Gaye sang so poignantly - “What’s going on.” Often the big stories in my artwork are inspired by the rhythms and ideas found in music, literature, history, politics, and film. One of my collectors has described me as an artistic chronicler of our times. He finds threads of current events and pop culture woven into the philosophical and spiritual undercurrents of my art.  My new oil on linen painting Love in the Time of Kamala, which will be exhibited in Whiplash, engages the viewer in a scene of hope, perhaps irrational but heartfelt, as a couple embraces and the world turns around them. Can the United States live up to its grand ideals?                                             - Gregg Chadwick, October 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. 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, but to me it felt as if all time collapsed within that point. For that moment, it seemed as if the Dalai Lama yearned to see with my eyes as I, in turn, learned to see through his. I have been working on this painting ever since to put my experience of that moment of empathy and connection down on canvas.                                                           – Gregg Chadwick UPDATE: A large scale banner of my painting Through Tibetan Eyes has been installed on the Airport Avenue side facade of the Hangar at 3026 Airport Avenue, Santa Monica, CA 90405

Gregg Chadwick Through Tibetan Eyes 72" x 96" oil on linen 2006- 2024

Gregg Chadwick Kamala - Purple Reign 30" x 22" 300 lb (640 gsm)watercolor paper 2024 This artwork and more will be on view in my studio - open before, during, and after, the event. More of my artworks available as prints featured in the Saatchi Art Collection: Figurative Political Art Prints For Sale By Artists Featured In The Other Art Fair

Cinema of Time Opens Sunday, July 12, 2015

Gregg Chadwick
Los Angeles Theatre
36"x48" oil on linen 2015

 HUFFPOST Arts & Culture

Artist Gregg Chadwick Engages Hollywood in New Exhibition: "Cinema of Time"

Article published July 7, 2015 By Kathy Leonardo

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathy-leonardo-/artist-gregg-chadwick-eng_b_7740254.html

You are invited to the Opening Party on Sunday, July 12th from 4-7 pm

At UPPER WEST at 3221 Pico Blvd in Santa Monica.

Drinks and appetizers will be served.

Hope to see you there!

MORE on Gregg’s show at UPPER WEST in Santa Monica:

http://www.smmirror.com/articles/News/Meet-Artist-Gregg-Chadwick-At-Upper-West-Opening-Reception-July-12/43671

http://www.examiner.com/article/sunday-july-12th-upper-west-restaurant-celebrates-the-work-of-gregg-chadwick

http://www.ktrpromo.com/2015/06/cinema-of-time-featuring-gregg-chadwick.html

http://www.laartparty.com/index.php/upcoming-events/2105-sunday-july12-uppe-rwest-gregg-chadwick

Gregg Chadwick's "Trains and Stations" at Santa Monica Airport Artwalk 2014

Gregg Chadwick
The Emperor's Train 68"x144" oil on Japanese screen 2014
and Empire State (Grand Central) 72"x36" oil on linen 2013 
Courtesy Sandra Lee Gallery

As part of the Santa Monica Airport Artwalk 2014, my installation "Trains and Stations" will be on view in the Hangar West Gallery at the Santa Monica Art Studios. My studio #15, directly across from the screen, will also be open and will include new paintings on this theme.

Opening reception - Saturday, March 15, 2014 from 12 - 5pm

"Trains and Stations" was inspired by the powerful music of Michael McDermott and his band The Westies and the memory of my Grandfather Arthur Desch who made his living as a train engineer on the Jersey Central Line.

Listen to Trains here: https://www.facebook.com/westiesmusic/posts/10151723507858995

More at: 
The Emperor's Train 
http://www.smgov.net/Portals/Culture/content.aspx?id=15034 

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SANTA MONICA AIRPORT ARTWALK 2014
SANTA MONICA ART STUDIOS 
3026 Airport Ave. Santa Monica, CA 90405 | 310-397-7449

New Exhibition for the New Year

Gregg Chadwick
l'Horloge de Baudelaire (Baudelaire's Clock) 
40" x 30" oil on linen 2013
courtesy Sandra Lee Gallery, San Francisco, California

Opening on January 9, 2014, from 5:00-7:30pm, at the Sandra Lee Gallery in San Francisco, California is a new group exhibition which includes my artwork along with work by Kathryn Arnold, Henry Jackson, Irena Kononova, Jeremy Morgan, Jeffrey Palladini, Hyun Su Park, Daniel Phill, George Rivera, Jungsan Senim and others. The exhibition runs until January 31, 2014.

The Sandra Lee Gallery is located at:
 251 Post Street, Suite 310, San Francisco, CA 94108
[t] 415.291.8000
art@sandraleegallery.com

Please join me tonight for the 9th Anniversary of Santa Monica Art Studios!

Gregg Chadwick
Superstition
28"x28" oil on panel 2013

Please join me tonight for the 9th Anniversary of the Santa Monica Art Studios!

 Saturday, October 12, 6-9 pm and Sunday, October 13, 1-5 pm.

My new painting, Superstition, was inspired by the amazing closing party of Social Media Week-LA which was held on Friday, September 27th at Bergamot Station in Santa Monica.

More paintings will be unveiled tonight and I would love to see you!

Also all of the painters, printmakers, photographers, sculptors and mixed media artists who call Santa Monica Art Studios home will open their working spaces for the event.

Santa Monica Art Studios
3026 Airport Avenue
Santa Monica, CA 90405
ph:  310.397.7449
fax: 310.397.7459 

http://www.santamonicaartstudios.com

New York Minute

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

Ashland and Main

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

Specific Fiction (sonoba shōsetsu)

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.

Una Poesia di Rosso (A Poem of Red)

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 Opens March 5th, 2013 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 

Opening Thursday, August 9, 2012 at the LACDA: Electron Salon

Gregg Chadwick
Studio View of Fire Sermon, With Annick
44"x36" digital photograph on paper
On Exhibit at the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art 
 August 9 -September 1, 2012

"Within the scale of the life of the cosmos, a human life is no more than a tiny blip. Each one of us is a visitor to this planet, a guest, who has only a finite time to stay. What greater folly could there be than to spend this short time lonely, unhappy, and in conflict with our fellow visitors?"

-His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Beyond Religion, 2011

I am honored to announce that my photograph Studio View of Fire Sermon, With Annick will be included in the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art's Electron Salon exhibit which opens this Thursday, August 9 at LACDA. The artist's reception runs from 7-9pm as part of the Downtown Art Walk. The gallery is located at 102 West Fifth Street, Los Angeles, California 90013

Hope to see you there!

los angeles center for digital art presents

Electron Salon

August 9-September 1, 2012

Artists Reception August 9, 7-9pm
in conjunction with Downtown Art Walk

Adriane Biondo
Donna Cohen Lane
Andrea Rosenthal
Ty Cummings
Maria Martin
Beau Comeaux
Anna Chupa
Phil Althouse
Maureen McAuliffe
Mary Ciani Saslow
Julia and Amy Bautz
GUILLERMOHFORNILLO
Sal Morales
Lillian Abel
Melinda R. Smith
Bridget Klappert
Kristin Glover
Claudio Vazquez
Gregg Chadwick
Alli Curtis
Mike Pace
Elke Brand
Jane Gottlieb
Marjorie Albano Renno

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All Rights Reserved

Works of individual artists remain the intellectual property and are copyrighted by their respective authors. No unauthorized reproduction, all rights reserved.

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