Speed of Life

by Gregg Chadwick    Gregg Chadwick The Station Agent (detail) 54"x54" oil on linen 2014 Private Collection, Los Angeles, California Featured at the LA Art Show 2015 -  LA Convention Center and illustrated in the catalog. January 14-18, 2015 In his biography of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs, biographer Walter Isaacson describes the unveiling of the iPhone on January 9, 2007 at Macworld in San Francisco: "Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything," Steve Jobs said. "Today we are introducing three revolutionary products," Jobs continued. "The first one is a widescreen iPod with touch controls. The second is a revolutionary mobile phone. The third is a breakthrough Internet communications device ... Are you getting it? These are not three separate devices, this is one device, and we are calling it the iPhone." In my paintings, I have often depicted communication devices. From phone booths in Tokyo and New York C...

I joined Twitter in April 2009, in time for Iran's Green Wave and the BFD of Obamacare. Thank you to the twitter employees who have been with us along the way. Please read and share their goodbyes at #LoveWhereYouWorked pic.twitter.com/uotZb65YVN — Gregg Chadwick (@greggchadwick) November 4, 2022

Fascinating new exhibition of drawings by Rick Barton at the The Morgan Library & Museum. They write: "Very little is known about Rick Barton (1928–1992), who, between 1958 and 1962, created hundreds of drawings of striking originality. His subjects range from the intimacy of his room to the architecture of Mexican cathedrals, and from the gathering places of Beat-era San Francisco to the sinuous contours of plants. Drawing almost exclusively in pen or brush and ink, he captured his subjects in a web of line that was sometimes simple and economical, but more often complex and kaleidoscopic. With the exception of small displays in cafés and bookshops in the 1950s and ‘60s, this exhibition of sixty drawings, two accordion-fold sketchbooks, and five printed works, is the first time Barton’s art is being seen by the public."   “Untitled [Seated figure in the Black Cat Café],” Sept. 27, 1960, pen and ink, in the exhibition “Writing a Chrysanthemum: The Drawings of Rick Barton”...

Gregg Chadwick The Painter of the World (   Seol-min)   12"x9"oil on panel 2021 At the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco a few years ago, I watched the Korean Buddhist Nun artist Seol-min paint a gorgeous artwork of the Water Moon Avalokiteshvara, also known as Guanyin. Her canvas was laid flat on the floor and she painted on top of it as if she was bodysurfing a gentle wave with brushes in hand. The large hall where Seol-min painted was quiet. The gentle sound of her brushes created a kind of music that echoed off the marble walls. My oil on panel painting "The Painter of the World" is my latest artwork inspired by this experience with the artist Seol-min. The Asian Art Museum has created a video of Seol-min at the museum. I am in the background, off camera, watching the events. Video Below. Link at: https://education.asianart.org/resources/korean-buddhist-art/ Featured at Saatchi Art's The Other Art Fair Los Angeles at Barker Hangar from September 23-26, 2021....

@kamalaharris at her best. (Which is very, very good.) https://t.co/gP9f5mNrXk — David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) October 11, 2019 Love Is Love!

“We are here because the American dream and our American democracy are under attack and on the line like never before. We are here at this moment in time because we must answer a fundamental question.  Who are we? Who are we as Americans? So, let’s answer that question to the world and each other right now: America, we are better than this,” - Kamala Harris Jan 27, 2019 Oakland, CA  Sen. @KamalaHarris : "With faith in God, with fidelity to country, and with the fighting spirit I got from my mother, I stand before you today to announce my candidacy for President of the United States." Full video here: https://t.co/qPadtK25Pr pic.twitter.com/rCIwj2NpGW — CSPAN (@cspan) January 27, 2019 Kamala Harris shows why Trump's 2020 advisers are terrified of her. https://t.co/LPY50S9vPA pic.twitter.com/wYYs3ipaai — Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) January 27, 2019 HARRIS: When we have children in cages crying for their mothers and fathers, don't y...

by Gregg Chadwick Venice Art Walk & Auctions – Sunday, May 20 from Noon-6pm . Silent Art Auction Noon–6pm Gregg Chadwick Cool, Gray, City of Love 24"x24" oil on linen 2018 Honored that my painting  Cool, Gray, City of Love will be featured in this year's  39th Venice Family Clinic's Art Walk and Auctions .  In the years that I lived in San Francisco, on most weekday mornings, I would walk with my young daughter along Market Street to the Cable Car turnaround. She would board eagerly, her face pressed up against the glass as the car would climb a seemingly insurmountable hill. The Gripman would nod to me and smile as we rode together into the fog. My painting Cool, Gray, City of Love  looks back to those San Francisco mornings. City of Love indeed. Venice Family Clinic’s Art Walk & Auctions raises funds to help provide quality primary health care to 26,000 low-income men, women and children annually. Servic...

Statement by @E_Reid35 regarding the Vice President's brief appearance at the game. "This is what systemic oppression looks like." pic.twitter.com/Aoy2GWons2 — Jennifer Lee Chan (@jenniferleechan) October 8, 2017 Statement by @E_Reid35 regarding the Vice President's brief appearance at the game. "This is what systemic oppression looks like." Why Colin and I intentionally decided to kneel as a sign of respect https://t.co/NfangCnW0e — Eric Reid (@E_Reid35) September 25, 2017 To understand systemic oppression you have to know its history. Watching @Ava ’s 13th on Netflix will open your eyes — Eric Reid (@E_Reid35) October 9, 2017 Everything Jemele Hill says here is 100% true and inoffensive. ESPN is trying to silence a black woman for EDUCATING people about change. pic.twitter.com/2NP9B6DGxj — Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Jollett) October 9, 2017

“A truly moral agenda must be anti-racist, anti-poverty, pro-justice, pro-labor, transformative and deeply rooted and built within a fusion coalition.  It would ask of all policy, is the policy Constitutionally consistent, morally defensible and economically sane.  We call this moral analysis and moral articulation which leads to moral activism.”  —Rev. Dr. William, J. Barber, II

Gregg Chadwick's "Revenant" Jeffrey Carlson Reporting Editor, Fine Art Today  Specters from a distant past ‐‐ or perhaps another level of existence ‐‐ people the nostalgic and visionary works of Gregg Chadwick. Widely recognized for his figure paintings and cityscapes, Gregg Chadwick presents his latest work in an exhibition titled "Revenant," soon to be unveiled at San Francisco's Sandra Lee Gallery. The exhibition opens July 1, and the opening reception will be held July 10, from 5:30‐7:30 p.m. Gregg Chadwick, "Salish Sea," 2014, oil on linen, 30 x 24 in. Sandra Lee Gallery In viewing Chadwick's paintings, it feels as though we are viewing these people and places through a screen of nostalgic vision. In passages the works are blurred and vague, suggesting forms more than representing them. This lack of definition suggests the uncertainty and vagueness of a lost memory or a fleeting dream; we can picture its shape but a...

Gregg Chadwick and Painting Time Jeffrey Carlson Reporting Contributing Editor, Fine Art Today March 2013 In a new solo exhibition, California artist Gregg Chadwick ambitiously explores the boundaries of time and of representational painting.  Gregg Chadwick, "Grand Central," oil on canvas, 36 x 48 in.    Gregg Chadwick, “Il Poeta di Milano,” oil on canvas, 24 x 18 in. The Time Between, a show of recent paintings by Gregg Chadwick, is now on view at Sandra Lee Gallery in San Francisco. In these paintings Chadwick works lightly and suggestively, as if in the haze of a fragmented vision. Some figures are located in recognizable time and space, like three young women who stroll an open road, one texting and another snooping. In other works the subject is far more enigmatic, the spaces indeterminate, and the figures distorted or mirrored. The conceptual foundation for Chadwick’s recent work comes from a study of time as perce...

by Gregg Chadwick Incredible & riveting political statement as @u2 's Bono creates a pseudo conversation with @realDonaldTrump in a surprise set at Dreamfest! pic.twitter.com/Aeq5tXXBGP — Marc Benioff (@Benioff) October 6, 2016 Bono and I have a bit of a history with Bullet the Blue Sk y and its deeply held meaning in terms of a vision of America. I wrote Bono in 2008, the night before his planned meeting with then VP candidate Sarah Palin. (Full letter here-  Bullet the Blue Sk y )  I asked Bono then to "please remember what America means. Please remember your inspiration to write and perform " Bullet the Blue Sky" as you watched the Reagan administration's support of Salvadoran death squads and Nicaraguan contras. America is not torture, Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo. America is the promise of hope and liberty."  Last night in San Francisco, Bono spoke truth to a candidate in love with power and himself.  They posted a video of the song wit...

  I reorganized my paints yesterday after fervent months in the studio painting the work for Mystery Train. Tubes of oil paint squeezed into empty twisted shells and stray caps marked only by a tell tale ring of color  were discarded. Brushes, newly cleaned, stand at attention ready for new work. A clean glass palette now sits on top of a used stack of brightly daubed surfaces. Painting trains seems to bring daily reminders of change, of process, of journeys. When a train or plane turns around for its trip back home, there is little time for introspection. Vehicles are cleaned, engines refueled, often a new crew is added - new passengers and new travels await. As Mystery Train prepares to depart San Francisco, I ask you to celebrate with me at a closing party and artist talk on February 27th at the Sandra Lee Gallery (details below) if you are in the Bay Area. I have listed below a series of events, exhibitions, press, and more that give a glimpse into the excitement around My...