Speed of Life

  Gregg Chadwick The Color of Time 48"x48" oil on linen 2025 New Paintings by Gregg Chadwick “Story is our only boat for sailing on the river of time.” - Ursula K. Le Guin "Your mind is more free. It can think, and is in the present. It can remember, and at once is in the past. It can imagine, and at once is in the future, in its own choice of all the possible futures.Your mind can travel through time!." - Eric Frank Russell "I find myself drawn to artworks, architectural spaces, and transportation devices that meld the past and present. While living in San Francisco, I lived a few blocks from the Main Library and watched as architect Gae Aulenti transformed the Beaux Arts building into the Asian Art Museum. Aulenti referred to the mix of past and present in her architectural renovations as a 'double ambiguity.' With sketchbook and camera in hand, I roam spaces that carry this double ambiguity- sketching details, pulling visual moments, and jotting down...

  ] Gregg Chadwick Begin Again (Taylor Swift, Saint-Germain-des-Prés) 24"x36" oil on linen 2025 Congrats to "your english teacher and your gym teacher"  - they are getting married.  To mark this joyful day for Taylor and  Travis, I present a brand new artwork.  Set at a café in the Parisian district Saint-Germain-des-Prés, my oil on linen painting "Begin Again ( Taylor Swift )" was inspired by Taylor's video created for her 2012 album " Red ".  Dressed in a gauzy Tiffany Blue top,  Taylor sips an espresso and finds new love. A fitting artwork for my collection of moments pulled from life and love that will be exhibited at The Other Art Fair in Los Angeles from September 25-28, 2025. The artful  @lili_theotherartfair  also congratulates the pair with: "So High School Your english teacher and your gym teacher are getting married, and your art teacher (me) is obsessed. Curated from works by exhibiting artists at The Other Art Fair Los Angel...

Patti Smith, Piazza San Marco, Venice, 2025.07.07,  Beneath the Southern Cross Festival della Bellezza

"R.B. Kitaj was one of the pre-eminent figure painters working in post-war London. Despite the acclaim he achieved in his lifetime, since his death in 2007 he has not been widely exhibited in London and many areas of art historical research into his work await exploration. His paintings and drawings, especially those made in his Los Angeles period between 1997 and 2007, warrant more detailed appraisal than they have yet received. Outstanding research topics reach far beyond a consideration of his source materials and include his ambiguous interposition between modernity and post-modernity, his self-conscious use of eclectic styles as a vehicle for meaning, and the varied networks he connected with, from the swinging London of his friends David Hockney and Mick Jagger to the Beat scene of California. In short, Kitaj and his work are long overdue for reconsideration. In collaboration with Piano Nobile, the Courtauld Research Forum will contribute to that process of reconsideration. ...

From the BBC - "4-part BBC documentary series in which art historian James Fox explores how the power of images has transformed the modern world. James starts at the beginning of the 20th century, when an explosion of scientific and technological advances created radical new ways of looking at the world. From the impact of aerial photography on modern art to our ability to peer inside the body and freeze time itself, the first episode is a dizzying journey of visual invention, which makes fascinating connections between the work of artists, film-makers, photographers and scientists. Revealing Salvador Dali’s debt to Einstein, the groundbreaking trickery of Buster Keaton and shockingly modern fakery of WWI photos, James Fox offers an endlessly surprising, eye-opening look at the beginnings of our image-saturated age."

  PRIDE (Last of Us) 30"x22" pastel, color pencil, ink, and wash on paper 2025 by Gregg Chadwick My multi-media drawing on paper "PRIDE (Last of Us)" was inspired by a poignant scene in the HBO Max series which is based on the storytelling in the video game "Last of Us". In my artwork queer lovers Dina and Ellie ride on horseback through dystopian Seattle's Capitol Hill. In this perhaps eerily prescient future, PRIDE celebrations have ceased and anti - LGBTQIA bigotry is present. As they ride, Dina and Ellie notice the PRIDE flags, but don’t know their meaning. "What's up with all the rainbows?” Dina asks. “I dunno. Maybe they were all optimists,” Ellie responds. But, we the audience know what the PRIDE symbols mean and the loss is heartbreaking. As we near the end of June 2025 - the world is in a particular tough place. My artwork is a visual meditation to remind us all that "Love is Love!"