Thanks to all who visited my booth at The Other Art Fair, all my artist colleagues at TOAF, and deep appreciation to all of you who have purchased a new Chadwick! Thanks @saatchiart for this amazing first run in Los Angeles. #art#instaartists And deep thanks as well to @clarkhulingsorg for your support and guidance #ArtIsLife #TheFutureIsWoke
Monday, March 19, 2018
An Amazing "The Other Art Fair" in Downtown L.A.
Thanks to all who visited my booth at The Other Art Fair, all my artist colleagues at TOAF, and deep appreciation to all of you who have purchased a new Chadwick! Thanks @saatchiart for this amazing first run in Los Angeles. #art#instaartists And deep thanks as well to @clarkhulingsorg for your support and guidance #ArtIsLife #TheFutureIsWoke
Thursday, March 08, 2018
To women thinking about working in games: We need your voice.
To women thinking about working in games: We need your voice. #InternationalWomensDay #GirlsBehindTheGames pic.twitter.com/BxNOUj2Orl— BioWare (@bioware) March 8, 2018
Did you know that 47% of gamers are women and yet women only make up 22% of the game industry workforce? Runaway wants to help improve those numbers by increasing awareness of women in the industry and highlighting the incredible work they do.
Wednesday, March 07, 2018
Women Illuminated Film Festival Premieres Parallel to the United Nation’s 62nd Annual Commision on the Status of Women (CSW)
by Gregg Chadwick
Excited to report that my wife MarySue's film/transmedia project will be screened on March 12 in New York City. I will be there for the screening and the events before I Jetblue it back to Los Angeles for my show at the Other Art Fair. Hope to see you in New York or L.A. As hard as it is to read the news every day, there are folks doing amazing work across the globe to help create a more equitable and diverse global environment. Deep thanks to all who are deep in the work. You inspire me daily.
MONDAY, MARCH 12 FOR THE WOMEN ILLUMINATED FILM FESTIVAL
The Women Illuminated Film Festival showcases documentary, short, and feature-length films (such as The Mask You Live In and Miss Representation) by women filmmakers, grappling with the most pressing issues of our time.
This one-day event features discussions by the creatives and experts behind the films, an award ceremony honoring leaders in the global movement to achieve gender equality, and a wine and dessert reception for fans and filmmakers alike.
Where: The Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd Ave, New York 10003
When: Monday, March 12 beginning at 11:30 a.m. EST
Tickets:http://bit.ly/WomenIlluminatedFilmFestival
When: Monday, March 12 beginning at 11:30 a.m. EST
Tickets:http://bit.ly/WomenIlluminatedFilmFestival
TUESDAY, MARCH 13 FOR THE WOMEN/GIRLS AND MEDIA: POWER, STORYTELLING, AND #METOO PANEL
This panel of gender equality leaders in film, media, and advocacy will discuss best practices for broadening the existing media economy and leveraging media to highlight women and girls’ voices.
Featured speakers include Rachael Denhollander, the #MeToo survivor who broke the Larry Nassar Case with the Indianapolis Star Newspaper; Lenora Lapidus, Director of the Women’s Rights Project at the National Headquarters of the ACLU; Tonya Pinkins, Tony Award Winner on the #TimesUp Data Collection Committee; and more.
Where: 4 W 43rd Street, New York 10036, “Social Hall”
When: Tuesday, March 13 from 2:30 – 4:00 p.m. EST
Tickets: First come, first served
When: Tuesday, March 13 from 2:30 – 4:00 p.m. EST
Tickets: First come, first served
WHO:
Sheva Carr, Co-Vice President of Pathways To Peace and CEO of HeartAmbassadors
Rachael Denhollander, #MeToo survivor who broke the Larry Nassar Case with the Indianapolis Star Newspaper
Cristina Escobar, Director of Communications for The Representation Project
Lenora Lapidus, Director of the Women's Rights Project at the National Headquarters of the ACLU
MarySue Heilemann, Associate Professor, Media Producer and Women’s Health Researcher, UCLA School of Nursing
Devaa Mitchell Haley, Co-Founder of Shift Network and Founder of Inspiring Women with Soul
Tonya Pinkins, Tony Award Winner on the #TimesUp Data Collection Committee
Jennifer Warren, Oscar-Winning actress, director, producer, and founder of The Alliance of Women Directors
Amie Williams, Executive Director and Co-Founder of Global Girl Media
WHAT: The "Women/Girls and Media: Power, Storytelling, and #MeToo" panel will explore how which stories get told, by whom, is central to achieving gender equality.
This panel of gender equality leaders in film, media, and advocacy will discuss the status of gender representation in entertainment and show how this domain can be used for advancing the UN's Sustainable Development Goal 5: Gender Equality. The topic is particularly relevant as the UN Commision on the Status of Women’s review theme this year is “participation in and access of women to the media, and information and communications technologies and their impact on and use as an instrument for the advancement and empowerment of women.”
Members of the press can expect a lively discussion of best practices for broadening the existing media economy and leveraging media to highlight women and girls’ voices.
WHERE: 4 W 43rd Street, New York, NY 10036
Room: Social Hall
WHEN: Tuesday March 13 from 2:30 - 4:00 p.m. EST
Immediately following the panel, press is invited to join speakers at a reception sponsored by The Shift Network, offering transformative programs, media, and events to help people awaken their potential. Learn more at TheShiftNetwork.com.
Press interested in attending the panel, interviewing speakers, or attending the reception, must contact Shira at shira@therepresentationproject.org or 628-253-5204 to RSVP.
Friday, March 02, 2018
Looking Forward to Seeing You at The Other Art Fair
by Gregg Chadwick
"...the distinction made between past, present
and future is nothing more than a persistent stubborn illusion"
"the most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious...
whoever does not know it and can no longer marvel,
is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed."
-Albert Einstein
My studio is full of new paintings that will make their premier at Saatchi Art's The Other Art Fair. Time, movement, memory, and technology all weave their way into my artworks.
Art critic Alex Bigman wrote this about my paintings -
“Gregg Chadwick begins with a Greek conceptual dyad pertaining to that slippery core of existence: Time. The ancients defined chronos as sequential and chronological time, kairos – the time in between. Chadwick paints in oil in various sessions, superimposing images upon one another and in effect capturing the ghostly effect of kairos. The palette is muted; the atmosphere vaporous, beautiful and melancholy. With any luck, Chadwick hopes, the works will disturb viewers' sense of time's linearity, offering the conundrum of a simultaneous past, present and future instead.”
Gregg Chadwick The Time Between (Kairos) 48”x36” oil on linen 2018 |
I am also excited to report that Kathy Leonardo has listed The Other Art Fair, and my participation in the fair, in her latest hot Art Events for March:
March 15 - 18, 2018:
Saatchi Art presents the Other Art Fair. Making its debut at The Majestic Downtown, the Fair showcases work by 100 emerging artists, each hand-picked by a Selection Committee of art world experts.
Gregg Chadwick
City of Mirrors (61 vette)
24"x30" oil on linen 2018
Artist Gregg Chadwick will be exhibiting a selection of artworks from his traveling exhibition Mystery Train, which examines the mythos of America as seen through the physical and cultural history of the railroad in the United States. The artist will also be featuring a new series of works that engage the viewer in the story of Los Angeles, reaching right up to the Women's Marches of 2017 and 2018. A new series of works on paper as well as small sized paintings will also be on view.
Enjoy a private View, Thursday March 15th: 6pm-10pm - limited tickets available Show times are
Friday March 16th: 3pm-10pm; Saturday March 17th: 2pm-10pm; Sunday March 18th: 11am-6pm; Admission range from $8 - $30 per person CLICK HERE to purchase tickets. The Majestic Downtown, 650 South Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90014; http://www.theotherartfair.com/
THE OTHER ART FAIR
PRIVATE VIEWING COMPLIMENTARY TICKET
Thursday, March 15: 6 to 10 p.m.
(Private VIP Viewing)
Please enter your details at the link below to secure your complimentary Private Viewing ticket to The Other Art Fair.
Please click link to RSVP for FREE tickets using GreggChadwick as your private code - http://la.theotherartfair.com/rsvp
This Private Viewing invitation provides access to the fair between Thursday March 15 - Sunday March 18.
You must RSVP before March 15, 2018 to register for the Private View.
The Other Art Fair
at the Majestic Downtown
650 South Spring Street
Los Angeles, 90014
Gregg Chadwick Skate Light 16"x20" oil on linen 2018 |
New painting "City of Mirrors" by Gregg Chadwick for @SaatchiArt @TheOtherArtFair https://t.co/ZUHQOWGbeM #art #LAnoir pic.twitter.com/2Kprp1FpEm— Gregg Chadwick (@greggchadwick) March 2, 2018
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Cinematographer's Dream
by Gregg Chadwick
I created Cinematographer's Dream in honor of the first Women Illuminated Film Festival which takes place March 12, 2018 at the Anthology Film Archives in New York, parallel to the United Nation’s 62nd Annual Commision on the Status of Women (CSW).
The one day event showcases documentary, short, and feature length films by women filmmakers, grappling with the most pressing issues of our time.
The Women Illuminated Film Festival is particularly timely, as this year’s CSW review theme is “participation in and access of women to the media, and information and communications technologies and their impact on and use as an instrument for the advancement and empowerment of women.”
My painting Cinematographer's Dream is part of a series of artworks on the history of the movie business and Los Angeles. Set in the early 21st Century, Cinematographer's Dream depicts a world on the cusp of change. Inspired by Oscar nominated cinematographer Rachel Morrison, who shot Mudbound, Fruitvale Station, and Black Panther, as well as the filmmakers featured in the Women Illuminated Film Festival, my painting looks forward to a more inclusive future.
More at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/women-illuminated-film-festival-tickets-43139246648
https://www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-Cinematographer-s-Dream/25560/2454484/view
Gregg Chadwick Cinematographer's Dream 30"x40" oil on linen 2018 |
I created Cinematographer's Dream in honor of the first Women Illuminated Film Festival which takes place March 12, 2018 at the Anthology Film Archives in New York, parallel to the United Nation’s 62nd Annual Commision on the Status of Women (CSW).
The one day event showcases documentary, short, and feature length films by women filmmakers, grappling with the most pressing issues of our time.
The Women Illuminated Film Festival is particularly timely, as this year’s CSW review theme is “participation in and access of women to the media, and information and communications technologies and their impact on and use as an instrument for the advancement and empowerment of women.”
My painting Cinematographer's Dream is part of a series of artworks on the history of the movie business and Los Angeles. Set in the early 21st Century, Cinematographer's Dream depicts a world on the cusp of change. Inspired by Oscar nominated cinematographer Rachel Morrison, who shot Mudbound, Fruitvale Station, and Black Panther, as well as the filmmakers featured in the Women Illuminated Film Festival, my painting looks forward to a more inclusive future.
More at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/women-illuminated-film-festival-tickets-43139246648
https://www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-Cinematographer-s-Dream/25560/2454484/view
Monday, February 26, 2018
The Resistance Turns to the Arts
Gregg Chadwick speaks at the AACN Symposium at UCLA on Art as a Tool for Social Justice |
by Gregg Chadwick
Last Thursday, I spoke at the AACN Symposium at UCLA on Art as a Tool for Social Justice. It was an honor to speak at my alma mater. UCLA's proud history of advancing civil rights was a prime reason I attended the university as an undergraduate. I was inspired by the heroic stories of UCLA alums:
Jackie Robinson as he broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball.
Kenny Washington as he broke the color barrier in the National Football League in 1946
Ralph Bunche at the UN. And as I learned later the advocacy for social justice by UCLA Nursing Grad AfAf Meleis.
As I write this, I am reminded that six years ago today, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was killed for simply being black in America. His death fueled a movement. I also remember that with millions of others, I marched on January 21, 2017 in the #WomensMarch. Our crowd in Los Angeles numbered around 750,000. This year on January 20, 2018, I marched again, and the crowd was estimated by L.A. Mayor Garcetti at 600,000. Artists often use their creations as a sort of reflecting device that mirrors and focuses the viewer’s attention on social and political change. As Marvin Gaye sang so poignantly- “What’s going on.”
Margy Waller on her blog The Bright Ride has a powerful post up entitled Artistic Resistance In Our America . Poignant and on point. She points to Jeffrey Kahane's minor keyed interpretation of America the Beautiful. In our time, where does art stand in the current climate of Resistance against violence, racism, sexism, and anti-LGBT bigotry? As I said at UCLA, art possesses an uncanny ability to communicate ideas and feelings that journalism sometimes struggles to convey. It seems that especially in times of struggle or unrest, art helps us connect to the personhood of others. Jeffrey Kahane helps us connect to the intertwined history of the United States. Kahane seems to play a lament, not for our lost innocence - as Americans we never were innocent with our history of enslavement and brutal conquest. But instead, in Kahane's notes, I hear the slow, dogged pursuit of justice. In my mind's eye as Kahane plays, I see the heroic faces of the justice workers who have come before us and the faces of the current generation of students fighting oppression, gun violence, and tainted water supplies. As Margy Waller writes,"We will resist. We will return.Thank you, Jeffrey Kahane—for a moment of stunning artistic protest."
From Teen Vogue Photo by Michele Sandberg/Getty Images |
“We are caught in an
inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever
affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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