Speed of Life

Points of Departure  (An exhibition curated by Maurizzio Hector Pineda)  A film by Collin Stark "These studio artists offer a visual mediation of time, site, and process. In this time of maelstrom and uncertainty, Points of Departure offers a visual respite for viewers to depart from the daily noise of contemporary life." - Maurizzio Hector Pineda, Curator Participating artists; Janine Brown, Stephanie Cate, Gregg Chadwick, Claudia Concha Perea, Lola del Fresno, Wendy Edlen, Judith Golden, Deborah Lynn Irmas, Christiane Johnson, Sheila Karbassian, Sally Lamb, Jackie Nach, Maddy Le Mel, Luigia Martelloni, Susie McKay Krieser, Malvina Milliron, Shae Rocco, Paula Rosen, Melinda Smith Altshuler, Gwen Samuels, Rebecca Setareh, Elham Sagharchi, Diane Silver, Pamela Simon-Jensen, Doni Silver Simons, Collin Stark, Joan Wulf, Karen Woo and more.

Artist as Entrepreneur:  Becoming the CEO of Your Life (Panel at stARTup Art Fair) Please Join Me today - January 28th at stARTup Art Fair in Venice CA as I chat about artistic goals and strategies. Moderated by stARTup Art Fair Founder  Ray Beldner , this panel discussion will feature 2018 Clark Hulings Fund Business Accelerator Artist Fellows  Juliana Coles  and  Gregg Chadwick , with CHF board member  Steve Pruneau. Sponsored by the Clark Hulings Fund  we will delve into what it takes to move an artist’s goal from theory to already accomplished. The Clark Hulings Fund (CHF)  helps professional visual artists compete in an increasingly complex marketplace by providing them with strategic business support, training, and targeted financial assistance. More at:   Artist as Entrepreneur - Becoming the CEO of Your Life What:  Artist as Entrepreneur: Becoming the CEO of Your Life (Panel at stARTup Art F...

by Gregg Chadwick MORE ART HERE Gregg Chadwick City Lights (Chaplin's Night) 48”x36” oil on linen 2017 This weekend stop by the Santa Monica Art Studios for our 2nd Annual Open Studios event: MORE ART HERE. Situated across the street from Art Los Angeles Contemporary Art Fair, and accessible via shuttle bus from the stARTup Art Fair ,  MORE ART HERE   provides an opportunity for you to see what is cooking in my studio. In my fourteen years at the Santa Monica Art Studios, I have opened my space to visiting collectors, art writers, students, local groups, scholars, and international guests. Visitors to my studio have included a bus load of Japanese nursing students from Tokyo, a group of academics from the University of Verona in Italy, professional art conservators from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and the Getty Museum, a group art meditation session led by noted art writer Peter Clothier, as well as numerous visits by ...

by Gregg Chadwick   Points of Departure  (An exhibition curated by Maurizzio Hector Pineda)    Gregg Chadwick Flor De Asfalto (for Sergio Arau)  50”x80” oil on linen 2018 (Installation View) "These studio artists offer a visual mediation of time, site, and process. In this time of maelstrom and uncertainty,   Points of Departure   offers a visual respite for viewers to depart from the daily noise of contemporary life." - Maurizzio Hector Pineda, Curator My painting   Flor De Asfalto (for Sergio Arau)   is featured in the Arena 1 exhibition Points of Departure.  With his music, words and images, Sergio Arau has inspired me to create a series of paintings that feature him as the main character in my painted movies. Rock Star, actor, director, screenwriter, and artist Sergio Arau has often performed while wearing gear honoring Mexico's most famous wrestling star El Santo (The Man In the Silver Mask). Known as lucha li...

Michele Pred  #MeToo  November 2017 Neon on Vintage Case 16" x 16" x 8" Courtesy the Nancy Hoffman Gallery "We stand on the precipice of a very dynamic time, and it’s up to us to decide whether this is a moment or whether it’s something that really instigates systemic change." -Ava DuVernay, speaking about the #MeToo and  Time's Up  movements. ( InStyle , Jan 3, 2018) Artists often use their creations as a sort of reflecting device that mirrors and focuses attention on social and political change.  Beyoncé 's powerful song    ***Flawless    features writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's fierce appreciation of feminism in the 21st century. Actresses and their allies wore black to the Golden Globes to protest sexual harassment in Hollywood. At Art Basel in Miami, Michelle Pred and Pussyhat Project founder Krista Suh led a  parade against patriarchy .   The Time's Up website challenges us with a call to action:...

Loved this card from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Reminds me of the many holiday seasons that I have spent in Japan. Especially the year that I spent chasing Hiroshige in Tokyo.  

Please Join Me This Upcoming Weekend for the 13th Anniversary of the Santa Monica Art Studios  Gregg Chadwick City Lights (Chaplin's Night) 48”x36” oil on linen 2017 In my thirteen years creating at the Santa Monica Art Studios,  I have opened my studio to visiting collectors, art writers, students,  local groups, scholars, and international guests. Visitors to my studio have included a bus load of Japanese nursing students from Tokyo,  a group of academics from the University of Verona in Italy, professional art conservators from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam  and the Getty Museum, a group art meditation session led by noted  art writer Peter Clothier, as well as numerous visits by Santa Monica students interested in the arts and culture. At the Santa Monica Art Studios, I am part of a community of artists -  driven to create, share knowledge and experience,  and help the com...

by Gregg Chadwick Sergio meets Sergio! Thanks to everyone who came out to the Santa Monica Art Studios last night to see my exhibit  Luchador's Dream which was inspired by the incomparable Sergio Arau. El Presidente Sergio Arau with his portrait in my studio tonight! What an evening- thanks for all who stopped by tonight.  #art #music #Mexico #Luchador A post shared by Gregg Chadwick (@greggchadwick) on Sep 15, 2017 at 11:23pm PDT

by Gregg Chadwick Gregg Chadwick Flor De Asfalto (for Sergio Arau) 56”x86” oil on linen 2017 With his music, words and images, Sergio Arau has inspired me to create a series of paintings that feature him as the main character in my painted movies. Rock Star, actor, director, screenwriter, and artist Sergio Arau has often performed while wearing gear honoring Mexico's most famous wrestling star El Santo (The Man In the Silver Mask). Known as lucha libre, Mexican wrestlers such as El Santo are defenders of the poor and vulnerable. By taking on the persona of the Luchador (wrestler), Josh Kun writes in Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America , Sergio Arau and his bands have mixed "the traditional with the contemporary, the rural with the urban, the American with the Mexican, the charro with the rockero."  My paintings in Luchador's Dream  carry Sergio Arau into a Los Angeles seemingly pulled from the lyrics of his songs or gathered from scenes of his f...

Gregg Chadwick The Future Is Woke 40”x30” oil on linen  2017 With millions of others, I marched this weekend in the #WomensMarch. Our crowd in Los Angeles numbered around 750,000.  The Future Is Woke  is the first in a series of paintings exploring this time of change. Artists often use their creations as a sort of reflecting device that mirrors and focuses the viewers attention on social and political change.  As Marvin Gaye sang so poignantly- “What’s going on.” As we carry the spirit of the Women's March forward: On Saturday, January 28th 2017, from 1-3pm at the Santa Monica Art Studios, a vibrant panel discussion on Art in the Time of Trump will be held.  Santa Monica Art Studios, 3026 Airport Avenue, Santa Monica CA 90405 Confirmed Panelists: Yareli Arizmendi - Actress/Screenwriter  http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0034976/ Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn - Senior Editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books...

Gregg Chadwick Stealing Home (Jackie Robinson) 8"x8" oil on canvas 2016 In honor of the Major League Baseball playoffs and my Grandpa Joseph Chadwick - my new small painting "Stealing Home (Jackie Robinson)"  Jackie Robinson-UCLA grad, civil rights warrior, Brooklyn Dodger, all around hero. Painting will be on view this weekend at the Santa Monica Art Studios 12th Anniversary   At the Santa Monica Art Studios, I am part of a community of artists - driven to create, share knowledge and experience, and help the community at large.  This weekend, I would be honored to have you join the long list of visitors to my studio #15 at the Santa Monica Art Studios. Saturday, October 8 from 6-9pm  Sunday, October 9 from 1-5pm 3026 Airport Boulevard, Santa Monica, CA 90405 #art #newyork #Dodgers #painting #baseball

Please Join Me This Upcoming Weekend as I Open My Studio at the 12th Anniversary of the Santa Monica Art Studios.  In my twelve years at the Santa Monica Art Studios my artwork has been included in more than 70 exhibitions worldwide,  including numerous community oriented benefit auctions. I often open up my studio to visiting students, community members, scholars, and international guests.  These visitors to my studio have included a bus load of Japanese Nursing Students from Tokyo,  a visiting group of academics from the University of Verona in Italy,  professional art restorers from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and the Getty Museum,  an art meditation session with art writer Peter Clothier,  as well as numerous visits by Santa Monica students interested in the arts and culture.  Last year a group of around twenty young adults impacted by AIDS gathered in my studio and other studios for ...

Gregg Chadwick Sea and Shadow (Mare e Ombra) 30"x20" oil on linen 2014 Courtesy Sandra Lee Gallery, San Francisco Last night Italian pianist Giuseppina Torre gazed attentively at  my painting   Sea and Shadow (Mare e Ombra) and said to me,"La luce a Venezia è magica ." I agreed, the light in Venice is magic. And there is light in Giuseppina Torre's music as well. Earlier that evening in the Arena 1 Gallery at the Santa Monica Art Studios she gave us a taste of her haunting piano compositions at the opening of an  Italian cultural event entitled All Roads Lead to LA, presented in conjunction with the Istituto Italiano  di   Cultura  in Los Angeles. The celebration continues tonight with  poetry, music, fashion and the visual arts. The evening will begin with a poetry reading at 5 pm to be followed by an hour-long performance by Giuseppina Torre. A presentation of contemporary Italian fashion will round out the evening. ...

Gregg Chadwick Revolutions 48"x36" oil on linen 2013 Please join me today for the  9th Anniversary  of the  Santa Monica Art Studios!    Sunday, October 13, 1-5 pm My new painting,  Revolutions , was also inspired by the amazing  closing party held by  Social Media Week-LA  on Friday, September 27th at  Bergamot Station  in Santa Monica. Deep House legend Marques Wyatt kept the party going all night. Caught up in the whirl of light and music, I knew I had to get it down on canvas. Come by my studio today and see the result.  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 www.greggchadwick.com

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

Gregg Chadwick Occupy 40"x30" oil on linen 2012 I am pleased to invite you to the 8th Anniversary Celebration of the Santa Monica Art Studios at the Santa Monica Airport. Come by this weekend - Saturday, October 13th from 6-9PM and Sunday, October 14th from 1-5 PM for a sneak peek at my new work in Studio #15 and the other amazing artists in our 22,000 square foot art laboratory. Gregg Chadwick Studio #15 3026 Airport Avenue Santa Monica, CA 90405

A hearty thank you to all who stopped by my studio during the Santa Monica Airport Artwalk. Those who braved the rain were rewarded with art and camaraderie at the Santa Monica Art Studios. I was happy to see familiar faces and to meet new art lovers and new collectors! Hope to see you again soon.

Gregg Chadwick The Color of Wind (Whispers of the Rail, The Petaled Road, Spring Departure) 30"x72" oil on linen 2011 (triptych) "In the cherry blossom's shade there's no such thing as a stranger." by Kobayashi Issa (1763 - 1828) "In Japanese Zen poetry, spring blossoms, particularly cherry blossoms, are often used as symbols for the simple, natural, unfolding springtime of enlightenment. In the "shade" or, you might say, beneath the canopy of enlightenment, there is no longer any sense of separation. Nothing and no one is foreign to you. There is no such thing as a stranger." - Ivan M. Granger I am always honored to support Habitat for Humanity with my art. My donation this year reflects my interests in Japan and Japanese culture with my triptych The Color of Wind . Whispers of the Rail 30"x24" oil on linen 2011 The Petaled Road 30"x24" oil on linen 2011 Spring Departure 30"x24" ...