Hope to See You Saturday Night - July 10, 2021

 

Gregg Chadwick

H.E.R.

36" x 36" oil on linen 2021

Join us this Saturday for our first in-person event since early 2020 - an outdoor and indoor art experience centered around Recovery Justice: Being Well!

LEFT/ RIGHT/ HERE
An Outdoor Art Experience
Part of Recovery Justice: Being Well

July 10, 2021 | 7:30 – 9:30 PM
3026 Airport Ave, Santa Monica, 90405

Outdoor projections begin at 8 PM, at sunset. Lionel Popkin’s Six Positions on Uncertainty live performances in the Main Propeller Gallery are at 7:45 PM and 8:45 PM.
We will be allowing visitors into the gallery (masks required), and to view open studios, please register for faster check-in at the door.

Where is here? Can we be together? Can we find stability amidst uncertainty? Join artists Lionel Popkin, Marcus Kuiland-Nazario, Yrneh Gabon and Susie McKay Krieser, Lola del Fresno, Luciana Abait, Nicola Goode, Cognate Collective’s Market Exchange project, Debra Disman, M Susan Broussard, Melinda Smith Altshuler, Gregg Chadwick, Deborah Lynn Irmas, Rebecca Youssef, and Dan S. Wang in a one-night only interactive outdoor and indoor art experience as part of the exhibition Recovery Justice: Being Well. 

Begin and end your experience with a special screening projected onto the Hanger and live performance of Popkin’s Six Positions on Uncertainty in the Propeller Gallery, contemplating a ritual to aid in both grounding oneself as well as working through the idea of social isolation due to the pandemic. 

• View vinyl murals including Gabon and McKay Kreiser’s Oneness, One Mask, One Love, One Heart🖤; Fresno’s The innocents (save a million lives); and Abait’s Mattress from Displacement Series on the Hangar’s Glider Wall outdoor gallery.
  
  
• Check out Marcus Kuiland-Nazario’s Sea Change Lab project, with live performance and installation in the parking lot. ALEXANDMUSHI will be performing their Chair Conversations throughout the evening. Learn more about their performance here.
  
  
• Discover Debra Disman’s new video around self-compassion and book making, and pick up a copy of Nicola Goode’s limited edition poster with images from Board-Ups, a project documenting storefronts of Santa Monica’s business district during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests.
  
  
• Explore the handmade wares of artisan vendors from Cognate Collective’s Market Exchange project, and experience their crafting demonstrations. Learn more here: https://marketexchange.18thstreet.org/ 
  
  
• View Recovery Justice: Being Well, a series of artist projects on display featuring artists Sara Daleiden, Nicola Goode, Susie McKay Krieser, Marcus Kuiland-Nazario, M Susan Broussard, Lionel Popkin, Yrneh Gabon Brown, Lola del Fresno, Debra Disman, Melinda Smith Altshuler, Gregg Chadwick, Luciana Abait, Deborah Lynn Irmas, Rebecca Youssef, and Dan S. Wang.
  
  
• Enjoy food trucks and artist open studios throughout the night!

This is a live, in-person event. Masks will be required at all times indoors. Reservations are requested. 

You may choose to drive through the event, but due to the June 15 California re-opening, we will also allow visitors to park and enter inside the galleries to view the exhibition Recovery Justice: Being Well, Lionel Popkin’s live performance, and artist open studios.

 

ABOUT ORGANIZING ARTIST LIONEL POPKIN

Lionel Popkin is an artist based in what is now called Los Angeles. He was born and raised in Indiana to an Indian mother and a Jewish father. His mixed-race and malleable identity markers place him in a questionable position in relation to the racial and social discourse created from the twin sins of genocide and slavery that formed the dominant power structures in America. As a choreographer, Popkin creates kinetic scenarios that intertwine the multiplicity of inter-cultural dialogue between the imagery and iconography of the Indian subcontinent that surrounded his youth and his post-modern Western training. His work questions how bodies, objects, and media are allowed to exist in time and space.

Popkin has been presented nationally and internationally at venues including REDCAT, Highways Performance Space, The Getty Center and The Getty Villa in Los Angeles, Danspace Project, Abrons Arts Center and Dance Theater Workshop in New York City, the Jacob’s Pillow Inside/Out Series in Massachusetts, The Painted Bride and Philadelphia Dance Projects in Philadelphia, ODC in San Francisco, The Place Theater in London, and the Guongdong Modern Dance Festival in Guongzhou, China. Commissions include San Diego’s Lower Left Performance Collective, the Li Chiao-Ping Dance Company, Carolyn Hall, and Nejla Yatkin. Popkin has been a dancer in the companies of Trisha Brown, Terry Creach, and Stephanie Skura.

Popkin has received grants from the Mellon Foundation, the National Performance Network’s Creation Fund, the National Dance Project Touring Subsidy, the Center for Cultural Innovation, the Puffin Foundation, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, and the Durfee Foundation. Popkin is currently a Professor of Choreography and Performance in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at UCLA.

ABOUT RECOVERY JUSTICE: BEING WELL

Recovery Justice: Being Well, aims to highlight the recent circumstances that have evolved during the pandemic (racial justice demonstrations and destruction, as well as social discontent and general disconnection) into a series of self-organized artist projects that merges the exterior and interior public spaces of City of Santa Monica property. 18th Street Airport Campus at Santa Monica Municipal Airport will be the site where artists reimagine the city and beyond in the midst of complex social unrest globally. Recovery Justice will recuperate through various means the digital and physical footprints left in a city that struggles to reclaim the seemingly peaceful environment it once had. Artists will develop a palette for making and sharing artworks responding to the street experience in safe, healing and expressive modes. This porous series is a point of departure to reconcile and redefine the concept of justice. Learn more here.

SUPPORT

Recovery Justice: Being Well is generously supported by Art of Recovery, an initiative of the City of Santa Monica Cultural Affairs, santamonica.gov/arts/artofrecovery. 

Additional support comes from Los Angeles County’s WE RISE LA program. Sara Daleiden’s residency and facilitation work on these projects is generously supported by the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts. Bailiwik is also a supporting partner on this exhibition.

Halsey at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Happy Birthday Frida Kahlo!

Happy Heavenly BornDay 🎂 @FridaKahlo 🎨
Through her deconstruction of long-held beliefs about artistry—and her ability to express both torturous pain and unfettered joy in her art 🎨 remains one of the most enduring artists of the 20th century. @TIME

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— ArtOnArtsBlog (@ArTallks) July 6, 2021

 

“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought... there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed... if you are out there...know that, yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.”― Frida Kahlo #womensart photo-N.Muray pic.twitter.com/hU5wbxIxGB

— #WOMENSART (@womensart1) July 6, 2021

America Is Back

The finale was impressive. What a great show! #July4th #nationalmall #WashingtonDC pic.twitter.com/eC6KAjI4X2

— National Mall NPS (@NationalMallNPS) July 5, 2021

 

Happy Fourth of July

Time to set off some fireworks! 🎆

Happy 4th of July! We hope everyone has a safe and enjoyable weekend!

📷: Fireworks on Ryogoku Bridge, by Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797 - 1858). Edo period. Print. Asian Art Museum, Gift of Elton Puffer, 2010.301. © Asian Art Museum. pic.twitter.com/Qut3TjBW7s

— Asian Art Museum (@asianartmuseum) July 4, 2021

 

Common - Imagine ft. PJ (Official Music Video)

The Medici: Portraits and Politics, 1512–1570 Virtual Opening | Met Exhi...

Join Keith Christiansen, the John Pope-Hennessy Chairman of the Department of European Paintings, and guest curator Carlo Falciani, Professor of Art History at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, for a tour of The Medici: Portraits and Politics, 1512–1570. This stunning exhibition features over 90 works in a wide range of mediums, from paintings, sculptural busts, medals, and carved gemstones to drawings, etchings, manuscripts, and armor. Included are works by the period's most celebrated artists, from Raphael, Jacopo Pontormo, and Rosso Fiorentino to Benvenuto Cellini, Agnolo Bronzino, and Francesco Salviati.

Learn more about the exhibition: https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions... Lead corporate sponsorship is provided by Bank of America. Major support is provided by David S. Winter. Additional funding is provided by the Sherman Fairchild Foundation, the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, Alice Cary Brown and W.L. Lyons Brown, the Gail and Parker Gilbert Fund, Laura and John Arnold, the Diane Carol Brandt Fund, the Hata International Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill, Denise and Andrew Saul, and The International Council of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities. Subscribe for new content from The Met: https://www.youtube.com/user/metmuseu... #TheMet #Art #TheMetropolitanMuseumofArt #Museum #MetMedici

White House Convening on Transgender Equality

LGBTQ+ folks across the country — no matter where you are on your journey — know you are loved and accepted just as you are

To LGBTQ+ folks across the country — no matter where you are on your journey — know you are loved and accepted just as you are. pic.twitter.com/e0vpSBkwFV

— President Biden (@POTUS) June 29, 2021

Bruce Springsteen's First Night Back on Broadway

The marquee of the St. James Theatre was officially relit after 471 days on Saturday, June 26 as Bruce Springsteen returned to Broadway for a summertime residency. Here are clips from the historic night, including his entrance, songs, and curtain call.

No Surrender (London Calling: Live In Hyde Park, 2009) - Springsteen and Brian Fallon

Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run (The Revivalists Cover - Live From Red Rocks)

Song Power Baby!

Song power baby! https://t.co/BaeAkcb8ms

— Stevie Van Zandt (@StevieVanZandt) June 22, 2021

@StevieVanZandt -Checkpoint Charlie https://t.co/m8vvpDAWzq https://t.co/5RMjKtXiHn

— Gregg Chadwick (@greggchadwick) June 22, 2021

 

To Celebrate Juneteenth, Listen To A Reading Of The Emancipation Proclamation

Click on the audio link to hear NPR staff members read — in celebration of the June 19th holiday — the Emancipation Proclamation, and follow along below.

More from NPR at link here.

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From left: Michel Martin, Noel King, Sam Sanders, Rodney Carmichael, Juana Summers, Dwane Brown, Audie Cornish, Tonya Mosley, Karen Grigsby Bates, Korva Coleman, Gene Demby, Cheryl Corley, Eric Deggans, Ayesha Rascoe and Walter Ray Watson

Photo illustration by Amna Ijaz/NPR

The Emancipation Proclamation

Michel Martin

By the President of the United States of America:

A Proclamation.

Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, to wit:

Noel King

"That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free;

Sam Sanders

and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom.

Rodney Carmichael

"That the Executive will, on the first day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people thereof, respectively, shall then be in rebellion against the United States;

Juana Summers

and the fact that any State, or the people thereof, shall on that day be, in good faith, represented in the Congress of the United States by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such State shall have participated, shall, in the absence of strong countervailing testimony, be deemed conclusive evidence that such State, and the people thereof, are not then in rebellion against the United States."

Dwane Brown

Now, therefore I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief, of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion,

Audie Cornish

do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days, from the day first above mentioned, order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, to wit:

Tonya Mosley

Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, (except the Parishes of St. Bernard, Plaquemines, Jefferson, St. John, St. Charles, St. James Ascension, Assumption, Terrebonne, Lafourche, St. Mary, St. Martin, and Orleans, including the City of New Orleans) Mississippi, Alabama,

Karen Grigsby Bates

Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia, (except the forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Ann, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth[)], and which excepted parts, are for the present, left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued.

Korva Coleman

And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free;

Gene Demby

and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.

Cheryl Corley

And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defence; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages.

Eric Deggans

And I further declare and make known, that such persons of suitable condition, will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service.

Ayesha Rascoe

And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.

Walter Ray Watson

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the City of Washington, this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the eighty-seventh.

By the President: Abraham Lincoln

• emancipation proclamation
• abraham lincoln
• civil war
• juneteenth

The Killers - Dustland (Official Music Video) ft. Bruce Springsteen

"We gotta do Dustland one day" Bruce Springsteen's collaboration with The Killers, a revisitation of their "Dustland Fairytale" is out today.  In addition to the video above, you can find the track on multiple digital services here. A letter from frontman Brandon Flowers shared by The Killers on social media provides liner notes for the single: February 29, 2020 JFK terminal 2 Destination: Salt Lake City, Utah I'm a little more anxious than usual about tonight's flight. Universal just sent out an umbrella email to all artists: "Continue promotion AT YOUR OWN RISK." There's a new virus going around, and it's shutting down the promotional run for our latest and greatest — Imploding the Mirage. We're dead proud of the record and can't wait for the world to get a load of it. But what was meant to be a rocket launch, stadium shaking, saliva-inducing tour run was about to come to a screeching halt. There's plenty of time before boarding, so I get a burger at Wendy's and call Tana. She's excited to get her husband home early. And I have to be honest, I'm a little relieved to be getting home early myself. Around the time I find my gate, I start getting some texts from a number I don't have marked in my phone. "Watching Glastonbury. You guys have become one hellacious live band my brother! Love the gold suit! We gotta do Dustland one day." Signed off with: "Bruce." Now I've got 3 options here: 1. Some cold-blooded monster is playing a cruel trick on me. 2. It's Bruce Hornsby. But I haven't talked with him since 2015ish. Or 3. It really is Bruce Springsteen (I forgot to put both Bruce's numbers in that phone). So I google the area code. It's from Freehold, New Jersey, and I'm still not convinced. So I text Evan (Bruce and Patti's son who has become a buddy of mine) and get verification that the number really is coming from his old man. And then, Covid Happened. We were sorry that we didn't get to tour it, but genuinely happy that we were able to release Imploding the Mirage as some sort of consolation. This is what we do, and this is what we have to offer. A joyful record about unity and perseverance. Our interpretation of that promised light that lives just beyond the boundary of sorrow. I have always sought to find and reflect that elusive light in my songs. It's a trait I inherited from my mother Jean. She died from a brain tumor back in 2010 at the age of 64… Sixty Four! I'm turning 40 next week and I'm starting to realize just how young that is. Too young. She was married to my father Terry for 44 of those years. Dustland was written in the middle of her battle with cancer. It was an attempt to better understand my dad, who is sometimes a mystery to me. To grieve for my mother. To acknowledge their sacrifices and maybe even catch a glimpse of just how strong love needs to be to make it in this world. It was my therapy. It was cathartic. That's where Bruce comes in. Before I really became a fan of his, I was in the business of stadium-size everything. Larger than life EVERYTHING. Certainly larger than the lives of Jeannie and Terry Flowers. But Bruce has written a lot about people like my parents and found a whole lot of beauty in otherwise invisible people's hopes and dreams. Their struggles, and their losses. I'm grateful to him for opening this door for me. I'm grateful to my parents for their example to me. Now go find something new out about your dad, give your mom a big hug, and for god's sake listen to Bruce Springsteen.

Tonight- June 5, 2021- The L.A. Zoo's Beastly Ball

 

Gregg Chadwick
Isbjørn
30”x30” oil on linen 2020
On exhibit at Los Angeles Zoo's Beastly Ball

Excited that my painting Isbjørn is up for auction at this year's benefit for the Los Angeles Zoo. Direct link to Isbjørn here - https://one.bidpal.net/beastlyball2021/browse/3(details:item/75)

The L.A. Zoo's Beastly Ball is happening virtually on June 5 at 6 p.m. and features its first-ever art auction, along with musical performances, animal moments, conservation stories, celeb cameos, and more! I'm excited to support L.A.’s biggest fundraiser devoted to saving species, with funds going to help sustain all the great work that happens at the L.A. Zoo! Watch live and participate in the silent art auction at http://beastlyball.lazoo.org. 

#LAZoo #BeastlyBall #conservation
#artforconservation #artist #artistslife