Tuesday, December 21, 2004
The 49th Day-Hope and Readings for the New Year
-Claude Anshin Thomas, "At Hell's Gate"
gregg chadwick
the 49th day
38"x38" oil on linen 2004
collection of bill badalato
Listening to Bono and Pavarotti sing "Miss Sarajevo" as I stretch new canvases for the upcoming year. The fresh smell of new linen mixes in the room with the fragrance of a just pulled espresso. The light this morning is crisp and warm. My world seems to be at peace until a line from the song slips into my mind :"Is there a time for keeping your head down, for getting on with your day?" I can picture Sarajevo in black snow. One by one, men, women and children race across a broad street. I can hear the crack of a sniper's rifle in my mind...
That imagined gunshot haunts me. A taunting reply to my question "How does one paint peace?" I pick up Claude Anshin Thomas' new book from a stack on the studio floor - "At Hell's Gate: A Soldier's Journey From War to Peace." I flip through the pages looking for the passage on Bosnia and instead find what I really need: "To live in the present moment and find peace in our lives, we need to be mindful in all that we do, in every action that we take... We are easily distracted by our thoughts, images of the past and the future, our dreams, our hopes, our regrets."
Claude fought in Vietnam, his youth lost as a gunner in assault helicopters, piles of spent shells gathered at his feet and piles of lives lost in the jungle below. Claude is now a Zen monk, practicing pilgrimages of peace and non-violence to war scarred spots across the globe. His message is simple yet heroic.
Claude was embraced by the Vietnamese monk, Thich Nhat Hanh, during a meditation retreat for Vietnam veterans. It is my sincere hope for the years ahead that we will see American, Iraqi War, veterans embraced by Iraqi religious leaders in meditation retreats so the cycle of war ends for these new veterans as it has for Claude Anshin Thomas.
I wish you peace in the new year.
Tuesday, January 11, 2022
2022
by Gregg Chadwick
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Monday, March 25, 2019
How the Light Gets In
Gregg Chadwick
Call and Echo (left), America’s Sons [From Ferguson to Baltimore] (right)
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Gregg Chadwick Call and Echo |
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America’s Sons (From Ferguson to Baltimore) |
Gregg Chadwick
The Future Is Woke |
Gregg Chadwick
Still I Rise (left), The Future Is Woke (right)
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Gregg Chadwick
The Future Is Woke (left), Scarlet Shadow (right) |
Gregg Chadwick Scarlet Shadow |
Arrivals and Departures |
Platform
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Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.”
Gregg Chadwick
Indigo Night (left), October Path (right) |
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Three Secrets |
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Sea of Pearls (Will Rogers) oil on panel 2018 |
Gregg Chadwick
Tower of Song (Leonard Cohen) oil on panel 2018 |
Gregg Chadwick
We are the Resistance (Carrie Fisher) oil on panel 2018 |
How the Light Gets In
Paintings by Gregg Chadwick
New solo exhibition of Gregg Chadwick's art
Audis Husar Fine Art in Beverly Hills.
Opening Reception - March 30, 2019
5:00 pm Benefit Film Screening - Breaking the Cycle
7:00 pm Art Exhibit and Refreshments
RSVP audishusar@icloud.com
Audis Husar Fine Art
Opening Reception in Conjunction with Benefit Film Screening of Breaking the Cycle
About Arzo Yusuf's Documentary Breaking the Cycle
There are over 500,000 kids in the foster care system in America. Many foster kids are targeted by human traffickers. Los Angeles is the #1 city in the U.S. for the most kids in foster care and #3 for human trafficking. Los Angeles has more than 30,000 kids in foster care. The system is broken and our youth are at high risk of being homeless and trafficked. Breaking the Cycle addresses the issues and creates a call to action.
Reservations Available at link below:
More on the film and Arzo Yusuf in the Chronicle of Social Change