Gregg Chadwick at the Montana Avenue Art Walk

Gregg Chadwick's artwork to be featured at the 

Montana Avenue, Santa Monica, Art Walk 2018

Saturday, July 28, 2018 10am - 9pm at Engel & Völkers 

Santa Monica, 1123 Montana Ave, Santa Monica, CA 90403

Hope to see you there!

Rhiannon Giddens - At The Purchaser's Option

Neruda's Path Through Silence

Gregg Chadwick
Still I Rise
40"x30" oil on linen 2017

"From all this, my friends, there arises an insight which the poet must learn through other people. There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are. And we must pass through solitude and difficulty, isolation and silence in order to reach forth to the enchanted place where we can dance our clumsy dance and sing our sorrowful song - but in this dance or in this song there are fulfilled the most ancient rites of our conscience in the awareness of being human and of believing in a common destiny."
--Pablo Neruda

Jazz Life on the Cover of 3 Elements Review

Art! Art! Art! @Salamander_Mag @riverteeth @3ElementsReview #litmags #art https://t.co/HdpxLSqiV8

— New Pages (@newpages) July 21, 2018

We're so excited that our Issue 19 cover art by @greggchadwick is a @newpages  pick of the week! https://t.co/8wUFQmwrsp

— 3Elements Review (@3ElementsReview) July 21, 2018

Ted Lieu on the Treason Summit

REP LIEU STATEMENT ON TRUMP, PUTIN SUMMIT IN HELSINKI

July 16, 2018 Press Release

WASHINGTON -
Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) issued the following statement after President Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Finland.


"What Trump did today was utterly shameful, and a slap in the face to the professionals in the Department of Justice and our intelligence community. Today we watched a U.S. President offer total deference to a hostile foreign power while attacking U.S. institutions. By refusing to admit that Russia attacked our Democracy, or that Russia did anything wrong whatsoever, Trump is disturbingly regurgitating the Kremlin's talking points.

Having served on active duty, I feel nauseous thinking about Trump's statements. Despite how desensitized we’ve become to Trump’s remarkably un-presidential actions, today should stand out as obscene. What happens next will determine whether we allow our President to cede American ideals and authority to a foreign power. We’re now at a crossroads where we have to decide whether we’re willing to let blind partisan loyalty to Trump lead to the debasing of our country. After this appalling display, will the Republicans finally stand up for America?”

Are you nauseated by the statements of @realDonaldTrump at the Putin summit? Disturbed? Angry?

You can do something about it. Work like hell to flip Congress this November. Volunteer on campaigns. Donate money. Register people to vote. That's how we take our country back. https://t.co/OVFYTrQA9J

— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) July 16, 2018

Are you nauseated by the statements of @realDonaldTrump at the Putin summit? Disturbed? Angry? You can do something about it. Work like hell to flip Congress this November. Volunteer on campaigns. Donate money. Register people to vote. That's how we take our country back.

I learned a new word today: Quisling. https://t.co/kPII1rR0Gm

— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) July 17, 2018

This Is Not America

After Trump's EU "foe" comment, one senior European diplomat said to me this morning, he has to separate America from the President, citing the David Bowie song "This is not America" https://t.co/GXldfcpDXt

— Tara Palmeri (@tarapalmeri) July 16, 2018

France’s triumphant team is a symbol of multiculturalism!

France’s triumphant team is a symbol of multiculturalism — here’s how diversity played a crucial role in the World Cup’s most successful teams pic.twitter.com/jJcdCFrj4B

— NowThis (@nowthisnews) July 15, 2018

We're Still Not There: A Practical Guide to Resistance

In February 2017, Full Frontal With Samantha Bee interviewed Nell Braxton Gibson, Dorie Ladner, Frank Smith Jr., Luvaughn Brown, and Joan Trumpauer Mulholland about their work in the Civil Rights movement and their advice for our time and our struggle for justice.

Joan Trumpauer Mulholland implored that,“Sometimes you have to put your cellphone down and take to the streets.”

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Keep A Little Soul (Official Music Video)

A new release from the vaults. RIP Tom Petty!

Gregg Chadwick and Painting Time by Jeffrey Carlson - March 2013

Note to my readers: I was thinking about this exhibit today and thought that I should repost this wonderful article by Jeffrey Carlson from March 2013. 

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 perceived by the ancient Greeks, who categorized it in two distinct ways. Chronos denoted sequential time, measurable in units, whereas kairos conveyed the significance of a moment and was qualitative in nature. A kairos was indeterminate in length and potentially great in importance, as in “an appointed time.”

Chadwick’s stated intention with his works on time is to “break down the illusions of linear time passing and expose the coexistence of past, present and future.”

Gregg Chadwick, “I Canti (The Cantos),” oil on linen, 80 x 60 in. 

Gregg Chadwick, “The Time Between,” oil on canvas, 24 x 18 in.

The artist’s conceptual vision neatly dovetails with the goals of the broader contemporary realist art movement. Chadwick paints scenes that are representational yet imaginative; they are, at one and the same time, rooted in tangible existence and removed from it. His figures are real and unreal. Engaged in everyday activities or detached from their surroundings, we see them as women and men of the world and as specters of superhuman existence.

Gregg Chadwick, “Three Secrets,” oil on canvas, 30 x 24 in.

Based in Santa Monica, where he paints in an old airplane hangar, Chadwick has shown at galleries and museums nationally and internationally. He earned his BFA from UCLA and his MFA from NYU. Chadwick has held notable solo exhibitions at the Manifesta Maastricht Gallery (Maastricht, Netherlands), AD Space 2000 (Tokyo, Japan), and the Lisa Coscino Gallery (Pacific Grove, California), and he has participated in group shows at the Sandra Lee Gallery, Arena 1 Gallery (Santa Monica, California), and the Arts Club of Washington (Washington, D.C.).

Chadwick writes a blog, Speed of Life, in which he examines art’s intersection with society. He also frequently posts recently completed work to his Flickr account, which can be viewed here.

The Time Between will be on view through March 30, 2013. 

An opening reception will be held the evening of March 7, from 5:30‐7:30 p.m. Sandra Lee Gallery is located at 251 Post Street, Suite 310, in San Francisco.

For more information, visit www.greggchadwick.com and http://sandraleegallery.com. 

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Gregg Chadwick, “Proserpina,” oil on canvas, 48 x 36 in.

Balm for the Soul: Childish Gambino - Summertime Magic (Audio)

Childish Gambino, aka Donald Glover, gives us new songs today: “Summertime Magic” and “Feels Like Summer.” Balm for the soul.

The Thai Kids are Safe, Now it is Time to Rescue the Children in America

by Gregg Chadwick

My family was pleased this morning to read that the 12 Wild Boars and their soccer coach were rescued from a cave in Thailand. The effort was extraordinary. It took strategy, teamwork, focus, dedication and bravery. Here in the United States we have our own children's crisis. Most of the immigrant children separated at the border from their parents by the Trump administration  have not been returned. At a hearing late last week, the government attorney tasked with the case asked the judge for more time because she had to babysit her dog. Shockingly, the judge agreed. Furthermore, a court ordered deadline to return the youngest children will pass with most of the families still hundreds of miles apart. Today, July 10, 2018, is the deadline for the Trump government to reunite 102 separated children under the age of five with their parents. Yesterday in court, the Trump administration said just over 50 children would be reunited by the deadline. Today the figure stands at 38 young children out of 102 returned. We will not stand for this!

UPDATE: In a status conference held on July 10, 2018, the federal court said the Trump administration must adhere to reunification deadlines for children forcibly separated from their parents or face possible punishment.  U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw said:

• The families were improperly separated, and he would not extend deadlines for reunification: “These are firm deadlines. They’re not aspirational goals.”
• DNA tests can only be performed when there is a genuine reason to doubt parentage or parentage cannot be established by any other means; samples must be destroyed after matches are made and cannot be added to a government database.
• The government must take a “streamlined approach” for vetting and reunifying families.

After today's status conference, Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, said:

“The court could not have been clearer that business as usual is not acceptable. The Trump administration must get these children and parents reunited.”

The ACLU will be back in court this Friday.

Case details here: https://www.aclu.org/cases/ms-l-v-ice

More information here: https://www.aclu.org/families-belong-together

Why can't the Trump Administration reunite these babies and toddlers with their families?

1. They've already deported the parents of 19 of these little ones
2. They can't find the parents of another 19
3. They can't connect another 16 to their parents

We must stand together as a nation and declare that #FamiliesBelongTogether!

How You Can Help Reunite Immigrant Families Today

1. Go to http://immigrantfamiliestogether.com  to help. They’re also on Facebook & @ImmFamTogether on twitter.

2. Donate to @ACLU and learn more: http://aclu.org/mirian  #MyNameIsMirian https://youtu.be/x7X1ZbH37P8 

From the Immigrant Families Together Website:

Immigrant Families Together is a network of Americans committed to rapid response unification of families separated by the 'zero tolerance' policy.  We have mobilized to help parents currently detained through the following immediate actions:

• Raising of bond funds through coordinated crowdfunding and individual giving in order to post bond for parents separated from their children at the US/Mexico Border.

• Paying bonds and providing pro bono legal representation to fulfill all legal responsibilities while awaiting trial so that they may be with their children.

• Arranging safe transportation from state of detention to the city where children are currently in foster care. 

• When needed, finding longterm housing in the destination city while they await trial.

• Connecting parents in cities with resources in order to sustain them during the process of being unified with their children.  

• Working with local organizations and government to expedite the process of achieving full custody of their children while they await trial.

We are creating a toolkit to allow other concerned citizens to replicate our model in order to help bring parents back to their children across the country as quickly as possible.  

“This is moral vandalism. Now is the time we need to see more action, more engagement, more love.”  Senator Corey Booker, July 10, 2018 at the U.S. Capitol

Senator @corybooker with @RAICESTEXAS @JoaquinCastrotx speaks on the way forward #FamiliesBelongTogether

There are heroes among us. They’re volunteers like @collazoprojects  and Meghan Finn at @ImmFamTogether This is a new Underground Railroad. https://t.co/lKp1XTeEQg

— Rod Thorn (@rodthorn) July 9, 2018

📣 The Trump administration created this crisis, and it's on them to reunite each and every child with their parents.

We won't let up the pressure until they do. #FamiliesBelongTogether pic.twitter.com/vM25wHRvYW

— ACLU (@ACLU) July 10, 2018

Rainbow Connection in Putin's Moscow

by Gregg Chadwick

Soccer (Futbol) is fun and all but Putin's Russia isn't. Currently in Russia, the act of displaying the LGBT flag in public can get you arrested. So these 6 activists from Latin America turned to creativity during the World Cup in Russia: wearing uniforms from their countries' football teams, they turned themselves into the flag and walked around Moscow with pride. 🏳️‍🌈

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Some Empowerment on the 4th of July

As the U.S. celebrates #IndependenceDay on #4thOfJuly, some #WednesdayWisdom from an American cultural icon, Rosie the Riveter, who has been re-interpreted globally as a symbol of women’s empowerment. pic.twitter.com/N2QduXdLm9

— UN Women (@UN_Women) July 4, 2018

Please Listen to the Story of a Stolen Child

Jimena Valencia Madrid, the 6-year-old heard screaming in audio ProPublica obtained from a detention facility, is now being held in Phoenix, while her mother is detained in Port Isabel, TX. https://t.co/blH2SGfYwB pic.twitter.com/85djOn2UCx

— ProPublica (@ProPublica) June 22, 2018

Thank you @ProPublica 

https://soundcloud.com/propublica/audio-crying-children-inside-a-us-customs-and-border-protection-facility

Full story here: https://propub.li/2MOtwq0 

Bruce Springsteen On Broadway Calls Trump's Child Snatching: "Shockingly and disgracefully inhumane."

by Gregg Chadwick

This week in New York, Bruce Springsteen added a powerful call to action to his Broadway show:

We are seeing things right now on our American borders that are so shockingly and disgracefully inhumane and un-American that it is simply enraging. And we have heard people in high position in the American government blaspheme in the name of God and country that it is a moral thing to assault the children amongst us. May God save our souls.  

Bruce Springsteen On Broadway Calls the Nation to Attention Over Trump's Inhumane Border Snatching (full audio below)

I never believed that people come to my shows, or rock shows to be told anything.
But I do believe that they come to be reminded of things. To be reminded of who they are, at their most joyous, at their deepest, when life feels full. It's a good place to get in touch with your heart and your spirit, to be amongst the crowd. And to be reminded of who we are and who we can be collectively. Music does those things pretty well sometimes, particularly these days when some reminding of who we are and who we can be isn't such a bad thing. 

That weekend of the March for our Lives, we saw those young people in Washington, and citizens all around the world, remind us of what faith in America and real faith in American democracy looks and feels like. It was just encouraging to see all those people out on the street and all that righteous passion in the service of something good. And to see that passion was alive and well and still there at the center of the beating heart of our country. 

It was a good day, and a necessary day because we are seeing things right now on our American borders that are so shockingly and disgracefully inhumane and un-American that it is simply enraging. And we have heard people in high position in the American government blaspheme in the name of God and country that it is a moral thing to assault the children amongst us. May God save our souls. 

There's the beautiful quote by Dr. King that says, "the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice." Now, there have been many, many days of recent when you could certainly have an argument over that. But I've lived long enough to see that in action and to put some faith in it. But I've also lived long enough to know that arc doesn't bend on its own. It needs all of us leaning on it, nudging it in the right direction day after day. You gotta keep, keep leaning.
I think it's important to believe in those words, and to carry yourself, and to act accordingly. It's the only way that we keep faith and keep our sanity.
I've played this show 146 nights with basically the same setlist, but tonight calls for something different...

Men walking 'long the railroad tracks
Going someplace and there's no going back
Highway patrol choppers coming up over the ridge
Hot soup on a campfire under the bridge
Shelter line stretching 'round the corner
Welcome to the new world order
Families sleeping in their cars in the southwest
No home, no job, no peace, no rest

Well the highway is alive tonight
But nobody's kidding nobody about where it goes
I'm sitting down here in the campfire light
Searching for the ghost of Tom Joad

He pulls a prayer book out of his sleeping bag
Preacher lights up a butt and he takes a drag
Waiting for when the last shall be first and the first shall be last
In a cardboard box 'neath the underpass
You got a one-way ticket to the promised land
You got a hole in your belly and a gun in your hand
Sleeping on a pillow of solid rock
Bathing in the city aqueduct

And the highway is alive tonight
Where it's headed everybody knows
I'm sitting down here in the campfire light
Waiting on the ghost of Tom Joad

Tom said, "Mom, wherever there's a cop beating a guy
Wherever a hungry newborn baby cries
Where there's a fight against the blood and hatred in the air
Look for me, Mom, I'll be there
Where there's somebody fighting for a place to stand
Or a decent job or a helping hand
Wherever somebody's struggling to be free
Look in their eyes, Mom, you'll see me"

The highway is alive tonight
But nobody's kidding nobody about where it goes
I'm sitting down here in the campfire light
With the ghost of old Tom Joad

Springsteen on Broadway - June 19, 2018 - The Ghost Of Tom Joad from docinwestchester on Vimeo.

Despite Today's Executive Order, Trump's Concentration Camps are Set to Grow

by Gregg Chadwick

Gregg Chadwick
Family Values
(Chinga la Migra)
24"x36" oil on linen 2018

Our protests against Trump's horrific Migrant Family Separation Policy are working.

As Rolling Stone reports,"The chaos that preceded the order's signing is further proof that nearly every move the administration makes is improvised, and that there has never been any real plan for how to deal with immigration other than projecting strength to tide over his base while the White House tries to figure out how to deliver the long-promised border wall. To Trump, signing the order is an act of weakness, and his claim that he's doing it because of how "important" it is to keep families together is as big of a lie as any of the many he's offered up since taking office."
The order itself was put together so quickly that when it was first posted online, its title was misspelled.

But we must keep up the pressure.

As outlined below, the Executive Order that Trump signed today is problematic. Senator Chris Murphy implores us not to get sucked into a moral vortex where something less than diabolically evil is somehow acceptable. If the new policy puts kids and parents in cages indefinitely that’s better than kids in cages alone, but still illegal and immoral. 

As the ADL reports,"The new 'zero tolerance' EO is not a solution to the crisis at the border & does not represent humane treatment of migrants. The solution to family separation is not indefinite family detention. Children do not belong in jail." 
To make matters worse, sources including Reveal are reporting that a number of migrant children who have already been torn from their parents are being given psychotropic drugs without consent from a parent.

1/ Immigrant children have been forcibly injected with powerful psychiatric drugs at one of the U.S. gov't shelters, Shiloh Treatment Center outside of Houston, according to court documents and interviews. https://t.co/Ve4XSyRw5N

— Reveal (@reveal) June 20, 2018

One child's prescription cocktail included Latuda, Geodon, Olanzapine, Benztropin, Clonazepam, Divalproex, Duloxetine, and Guanfacine. https://t.co/aRJZ6iou6h

— David Gura (@davidgura) June 20, 2018

As Yogi Berra said...."It ain't over till it's over."

Folks it ain't over. We have barely started fighting this abomination!

Analysis of Executive Order: 1. The plan is to keep families detained indefinitely together, which is illegal.

Zoe Tillman in Buzzfeed says,"The order directs the Department of Homeland of Security to keep families detained together, but any long-term enforcement of the order is contingent on a judge approving changes to the 1997 Flores Settlement Agreement that restricts the detention of children. The administration can detain families together for up to 20 days — a deadline based on earlier court rulings interpreting the 1997 settlement — but then will have to separate them absent action by a judge or Congress."

Human Rights First explains that the Flores Settlement Agreement imposed several obligations on U.S. immigration authorities.

The government is required to release children from immigration detention without unnecessary delay to, in order of preference, parents, other adult relatives, or licensed programs willing to accept custody.

If a suitable placement is not immediately available, the government is obligated to place children in the “least restrictive” setting appropriate to their age and any special needs.

The government must implement standards relating to the care and treatment of children in immigration detention.

2. Trump would like the courts or Congress to make that not illegal. 3. If Congress or the judiciary doesn't change the law, families will continue to be separated.


Unanswered Questions: 1. What, if anything, will be done to unite thousands of children with their parents?
This Executive Order in no way deals with reuniting the 2,300 children who have been torn away from their parents and remain separated. When will they see their parents again? They must be reunited immediately.
Jacqueline Alemany has learned that an "HHS official has told @weijia that there will NOT be special efforts made to reunite children who have already been separated from their families bc of the Zero Tolerance Policy, despite Trumps EO."

Let's be very clear here:

NO FAMILIES WILL BE REUNITED BY TRUMP'S EXECUTIVE ORDER.

That means there are still THOUSANDS of kids, sitting alone in cages, separated from their parents by Trump.

— Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Jollett) June 20, 2018

2. Where will all these families be housed? (See below) 3. What happens if the courts or Congress don't change the law?

Horrifying Development:

The order literally directs the Department of Defense to "construct" massive camps to detain these migrant families indefinitely. Zoe Tillman in Buzzfeed explains,"The Pentagon is looking at four US bases to house unaccompanied children and detained immigrant families, although the Department of Health and Human Services would be in charge of caring for them — Fort Bliss, Goodfellow Air Force Base and Dyess Air Force Base in Texas, and Little Rock Air Force Base in Arkansas."

This is criminal and this is on you @HHSGov @SecNielsen @realDonaldTrump @IvankaTrump Say it loud and say it clear - Trump's Concentration Camps Have Got to Go! #FamiliesBelongTogether #TrumpandtheBabySnatchers https://t.co/WxSfytjnrJ

— Gregg Chadwick (@greggchadwick) June 20, 2018

How to Fight Back:

Make A Plan to March: Major protest to Keep Families Together on June 30th in Washington and communities around the country. Go to familiesbelongtogether.org to plug into events. All hands on deck NOW to end this brutality and move towards freedom for all: kids AND their families.

• 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. 

Child’s World America, a member-based, 501(c)3 nonprofit organization committed to improving children’s lives in the U.S., reminds us:

"We find ourselves again upon a time where we will one day utter “how could we have let that happen?” We cannot afford to forget that there is a history of separating children from their parents: during slave auctions; during the forced assimilation of American Indians; and during the Holocaust. The reverberations of these barbaric stains on our history are still felt today and future generations of these original victims will inherit the intergenerational transmission of these traumas. To try and argue that this policy of ripping children from their parents at the border is somehow different from the systematic traumatization of children during the times of slavery, forced assimilation, and the Holocaust is to disregard history. To somehow convince ourselves that this systematic traumatization of children has no bearing on the lives of these children and no impact on the legacy of our country is to be living in an alternate universe. And to not care about the impact these policies have on these children is to succumb to the worst potential of humanity."

Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) has introduced The Keep Families Together Act (S.3036) which currently has 49 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.

The ACLU offers a script for calling the Senate - Link Here.

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.

Pelosi, Democrats condemn separation of families at border