Wednesday, May 01, 2019
Masterclass Pharrell Williams Maggie Rogers
Maggie Williams Debut in a NYU Masterclass with Pharrell!
Thursday, April 25, 2019
Hello Sunshine from Bruce Springsteen's Western Stars
by Gregg Chadwick
“This record is a return to my solo recordings featuring character driven songs and sweeping, cinematic orchestral arrangements. It's a jewel box of a record."
- Bruce Springsteen
“This record is a return to my solo recordings featuring character driven songs and sweeping, cinematic orchestral arrangements. It's a jewel box of a record."
- Bruce Springsteen
Gregg Chadwick Las Piedras del Cielo 16"x20" oil on linen 2010 |
Under blue skies on a California Spring day, I am listening to Bruce Springsteen's new song Hello Sunshine from his forthcoming album Western Stars. It is a country tinged song reminiscent of Harry Nilsson's Everybody's Talkin' from the movie, Midnight Cowboy.
Over the years I have driven thousands of miles under wide open skies across the American west. Scanning the radio dial as I drove, I was searching for the sound of the western road. Today I found that cinematic sound in Springsteen's new work. A rhythmic wash like a distant train running in the distance underlies the song. Pedal steel brings us into the west and the strings add a wide open sonic vista. Bruce's vocals are world weary but not defeated.
"Hello Sunshine" and an accompanying video will be released just after midnight ET tonight - April 25, 2019.
You can listen to the song now on E Street Radio - Link here.
Over the years I have driven thousands of miles under wide open skies across the American west. Scanning the radio dial as I drove, I was searching for the sound of the western road. Today I found that cinematic sound in Springsteen's new work. A rhythmic wash like a distant train running in the distance underlies the song. Pedal steel brings us into the west and the strings add a wide open sonic vista. Bruce's vocals are world weary but not defeated.
"Hello Sunshine" and an accompanying video will be released just after midnight ET tonight - April 25, 2019.
You can listen to the song now on E Street Radio - Link here.
Hello Sunshine
Had enough of heartbreak and pain
I had a little sweet spot for the rain
For the rain and skies of gray
Hello sunshine, won't you stay
You know I always liked my walking shoes
But you can get a little too fond of the blues
You walk too far, you walk away
Hello sunshine, won't you stay
You know I always loved a lonely town
Those empty streets, no one around
You fall in love with lonely, you end up that way
Hello sunshine, won't you stay
You know I always liked that empty road
No place to be and miles to go
But miles to go is miles away
Hello sunshine, won't you stay
And miles to go is miles away
Hello sunshine, won't you stay
Hello sunshine, won't you stay
Hello sunshine
℗ 2019 Bruce Springsteen
Released on: 2019-04-26
Drums: Matt Chamberlain
Steel Guitar: Marc Muller
Conductor: Rob Mathes
Other: Sandy Park
Violin: Lisa Kim
Violin: Hyunju Lee
Violin: Joanna Maurer
Violin: Sharon Yamada
Violin: Annaliesa Place
Violin: Suzanne Ornstein
Violin: Liz Lim
Violin: Jung Sun Yoo
Violin: Emily Popham
Viola: Robert Rinehart
Viola: Vivek Kamath
Viola: Desiree Elsevier
Cello: Alan Stepansky
Cello: Nathan Vickery
Engineer, Producer: Ron Aniello
Engineer: Rob Lebret
Engineer: Ross Petersen
Engineer: Toby Scott
Mixing Engineer: Tom Elmhirst
Assistant Engineer: Joe Visciano
Mastering Engineer: Bob Ludwig
Bruce Springsteen’s new studio album Western Stars takes his music to the American West, drawing inspiration in part from the Southern California pop records of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. The 13 tracks of Western Stars encompass a sweeping range of American themes, of highways and desert spaces, of isolation and community and the permanence of home and hope.
The album was recorded primarily at Springsteen’s home studio in New Jersey, with additional recording in California and New York. Ron Aniello produced the album with Springsteen and plays bass, keyboard, and other instruments. Patti Scialfa provides vocals and contributes vocal arrangements on four tracks. The musical arrangements include strings, horns, pedal steel and contributions from more than 20 other players including Jon Brion (who plays celeste, Moog, and farfisa), as well as guest appearances by David Sancious, Charlie Giordano, and Soozie Tyrell. The album was mixed by Tom Elmhirst.
The album was recorded primarily at Springsteen’s home studio in New Jersey, with additional recording in California and New York. Ron Aniello produced the album with Springsteen and plays bass, keyboard, and other instruments. Patti Scialfa provides vocals and contributes vocal arrangements on four tracks. The musical arrangements include strings, horns, pedal steel and contributions from more than 20 other players including Jon Brion (who plays celeste, Moog, and farfisa), as well as guest appearances by David Sancious, Charlie Giordano, and Soozie Tyrell. The album was mixed by Tom Elmhirst.
Columbia Records will release Springsteen’s 19th studio album on June 14.
Western Stars will be available for pre-order on Friday, April 26.
Western Stars will be available for pre-order on Friday, April 26.
Western Stars Song Titles
1. Hitch Hikin’
2. The Wayfarer
3. Tucson Train
4. Western Stars
5. Sleepy Joe’s Café
6. Drive Fast (The Stuntman)
7. Chasin’ Wild Horses
8. Sundown
9. Somewhere North of Nashville
10. Stones
11. There Goes My Miracle
12. Hello Sunshine
13. Moonlight Motel
All songs written by Bruce Springsteen
For more info click here:
Western Stars
by Gregg Chadwick
Gregg Chadwick Rio Grande 30"x40" oil on linen 2015 |
Under blue skies on a California Spring day, I am listening to Bruce Springsteen's new song Hello Sunshine from his forthcoming album Western Stars. It is a country tinged song reminiscent of Harry Nilsson's Everybody's Talkin' from the movie, Midnight Cowboy.
Over the years I have driven thousands of miles under wide open skies across the American west. Scanning the radio dial as I drove, I was searching for the sound of the western road. Today I found that cinematic sound in Springsteen's new song. A rhythmic wash like a distant train running in the distance underlies Hello Sunshine. Pedal steel brings us into the west and the strings add a wide open sonic vista. Bruce's vocals are world weary but not defeated.
Last September I ventured solo from Southern California to Chicago for a show of my artwork at The Other Art Fair in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood. The 2,000 mile drive took me across the western desert scapes of Nevada, Arizona, Utah, and Western Colorado. The espresso fueled hours brought back memories of cross country trips with my family when I was a kid. At night under western stars, my dad drove with the window open to keep him alert. My brother and I would scan the license plates on the trucks and autos around us, hoping to get all 50. The rushing sounds of wind and tires on the road muted my parent's conversation to a sort of road trip lullaby. I looked out the window as if I was in a movie. Each passing place, every passing car played a role in our family film. We drove from coast to coast - California to New Jersey and back. The last miles were always the most exciting. Driving up the New Jersey turnpike we could feel the power of Manhattan reaching out across the Hudson river. And on the return journey to California, we could see the glow of L.A. on the horizon as we grew close to home.
Years later when I got out of college, the wanderlust remained. On nights when I didn't have to work the next day, I would take my car out on the road and drive hundreds of miles into the desert and back. As the pink light of sunrise glowed around me I would pull my car in back home. With the engine off, the car would lightly rumble like a horse after a run. I would pick up the morning paper from the driveway. I could taste fresh coffee already.
Gregg Chadwick Road Movie 48"x48" oil on linen 2013 |
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Sunday, April 21, 2019
Broken Poet
BROKEN POET - TRAILER from Emilio Ruiz Barrachina on Vimeo.
Trailer of the movie "Broken Poet". Directed by Emilio J Ruiz and starring Elliott Murphy, Joana Preiss, Michael O'Keeffe, Marisa Berenson, Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa.
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Paris - Fluctuat nec Mergitur
by Gregg Chadwick
Gregg Chadwick Bookseller's Night oil on linen 2018 |
After the Notre Dame Cathedral Fire - in the light of day- Our Lady is scarred but standing resiliently!
Angela Merkel’s spokesperson responded with the Parisian motto: a Latin phrase that personifies Paris and Notre Dame as a ship: “Fluctuat nec mergitur”—“she is tossed by the waves but does not sink.” The saying has been Paris’ motto since the 14th century, about the time when Notre Dame was completed.
With grateful feelings about Notre Dame and Paris, I am pleased to let you know that my Parisian inspired painting "Bookseller's Night" has been chosen by Rebecca Wilson, Chief Curator and VP, Art Advisory at Saatchi Art, for the New This Week collection.
Direct link at: https://www.saatchiart.com/…/Painting-Bo…/25560/4792724/view
Link to the collection at https://www.saatchiart.com/…/New-This-We…/153961/280982/view
My oil on linen painting "Bookseller's Night" was inspired by a sojourn in Paris near Montmartre. That summer the light hung on late into the evening until the sky rolled into a blue hour. While walking the Parisian streets under those deep blue skies, I would often stop to glance at books spread out like magical treatises on art and life. We lived that summer in the shadow of Monet, Manet, and Caillebotte. Two of Manet's last studios were on our street and nearby on the Place de Dublin, Caillebotte set his magical painting "Paris Street; Rainy Day" ("Rue de Paris, temps de pluie"). Nearby was the Gare Saint-Lazare which inspired Monet to create Turneresque images of trains and steam.
I carried those memories with me as I painted "Bookseller's Night" along with time traveling thoughts of San Francisco and New York.
A few years ago, I stood outside in a clearing of a Monterey, California forest near the coast in the middle of the night with my brother and René Boitelle, a painting conservator at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Unlike the skies in Los Angeles, we were able to see the stars in the night sky and of course thought of Vincent Van Gogh’s painterly evocations of the glittering night. Van Gogh was able to capture the night in his paintings with his skillful use of midnight blue and starry yellow. Gazing at a Van Gogh painting of a star filled sky, it seems as if he knew that the lights he saw in the dark night sky had traveled from the deepest reaches of time. According to physicists, as we gaze at the stars, in essence we are looking back towards the beginning of time.
Later that week, I stood with René and another conservator, Devi Ormond, before a Van Gogh painting of a weaver; the painting was laid out like a patient on a table in the Getty Museum’s conservation lab. The work seemed so fragile, yet at the same time sturdy and timeless hearkening back to an era of firelight, candlelight, and moonlight. Soon after Van Gogh painted his weavers, the advent of electricity would completely alter the character of the night. Perhaps in every painting of the night there is a hint of this loss, echoing the shadowed forms in the artwork. I am reminded of the nights many years ago when, before painting, I would put Miles Davis on the record player. I would drop the needle on the first track and listen to the hiss and crackle as ‘Round Midnight began to play– the music always muted, blurred as if it emerged from a smoke filled room.
Monday, April 15, 2019
Mayor Pete Buttigieg Sends His Thoughts to France About the Fire at Notre Dame
Mayor @PeteButtigieg on the Notre Dame fire pic.twitter.com/BS88OXCLf7— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) April 16, 2019
As the smoke clears in Paris, it appears that the damage to Notre Dame is not catastrophic. The fire has destroyed the wood roof & spire along with some other elements, but the vaulted ceiling survived and Notre Dame is otherwise mostly intact. The grand organ survived the flames. The Pompiers de Paris showed their immense fire fighting skill in saving most of Notre Dame from destruction!
The Water Carrier's Dream
Gregg Chadwick The Water Carrier's Dream oil on linen 2017 |
Friday, April 12, 2019
Thursday, April 04, 2019
Chadwick Exhibition Arrives at Beverly Hills Gallery
How the Light Gets In
Paintings by Gregg Chadwick
Solo exhibition of Gregg Chadwick’s art at Audis Husar Fine Art in Beverly Hills.
View all of the exhibition artwork at this link: How the Light Gets InRead about the paintings at these links: “How the Light Gets In” on Medium, Park Labrea News/Beverly Press, and Kathy Leonardo on the exhibition and benefit.
“Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.”
- Leonard Cohen, Anthem
Art at its best possess an uncanny ability to communicate ideas and feelings that we need to understand. It seems that especially in times of struggle or unrest, art helps us connect to the personhood of others. Art creates dialogue. Dialogue promotes reflective discussion. And reflection can lead to change.
Gregg Chadwick’s new paintings in How the Light Gets In at Audis Husar Fine Art are crafted as reflecting devices that mirror and focus the viewer’s attention on where we are. As Marvin Gaye sang so poignantly — “What’s going on.”
How the Light Gets In: Paintings by Gregg Chadwick
March 25 — May 11, 2019
March 25 — May 11, 2019
Audis Husar Fine Art
Address: 8670 Wilshire Blvd Suite 114, Beverly Hills, CA 90211
Hours: Please contact via phone or email below for an appointment
Address: 8670 Wilshire Blvd Suite 114, Beverly Hills, CA 90211
Hours: Please contact via phone or email below for an appointment
(310) 994–9828
Tuesday, April 02, 2019
Equality Act Now!
During @HouseJudiciary today, I shared why the #EqualityAct is so personal to me and my family. My child is finally free to be who they are. With that freedom comes a responsibility, for us as legislators, to legislate with love and not fear. pic.twitter.com/VfpiD9aDyY— Rep. Pramila Jayapal (@RepJayapal) April 2, 2019
As the father of a trans daughter, I agree wholeheartedly with @RepJayapal !— Gregg Chadwick (@greggchadwick) April 2, 2019
As a country we must "legislate with love not fear" #EqualityAct 🏳️🌈 #TransRightsAreHumanRights
Sunday, March 31, 2019
RIP Nipsey Hussle
“I'm a 108 bus catching— LA Metro (@metrolosangeles) April 1, 2019
Blue line train riding, westsider with the young extras” — RIP Nipsey Hussle. pic.twitter.com/5USIexD07N
Monday, March 25, 2019
How the Light Gets In
by Gregg Chadwick
Paintings and sculptures at their best possess
an uncanny ability to communicate ideas and feelings that words or other media are
hard-pressed to convey. It seems that especially in times of struggle or
unrest, art helps us connect to the personhood of others. Art creates dialogue. Dialogue promotes reflective
discussion. And reflection can lead to change.
Artists often use their creations as a sort of
reflecting device that mirrors and focuses the viewer’s attention on social and
political unrest. As Marvin Gaye sang so poignantly - “What’s going on.”
Gregg Chadwick
Call and Echo (left), America’s Sons [From Ferguson to Baltimore] (right)
|
In my solo exhibition at Audis Husar Fine Art,
a group of paintings provide their stories. The young man in Call and Echo
has been seen by many viewers as an homage to Emmett Till. Not a description of
the unspeakable violence enacted on that young man in the 1950’s, but instead
as a human being with personhood, with a face of innocence and cause.
Gregg Chadwick Call and Echo |
In dialogue
with Call and Echo is America’s Sons (From Ferguson to Baltimore).
Inspired by the poetry of Langston Hughes, the words and advocacy of Ta-Nehisi
Coates, DeRay McKesson, and Black Lives Matter - my painting turns a spotlight
on the stories of young black men who face racial profiling, harassment and
often death.
Gregg Chadwick
America’s Sons (From Ferguson to Baltimore) |
With millions of others, I marched on January
21, 2017 in the Women’s March. Our crowd in Los Angeles numbered around
750,000. Again, on January 20, 2018 we hit the streets - the crowd was
estimated by L.A. Mayor Garcetti at 600,000.
Gregg Chadwick
The Future Is Woke |
In the midst of these peaceful gatherings, I
took visual and auditory notes as inspiration for a series of paintings
exploring this time of change. I took special note of the signs that were
carried by the crowd and documented them in my paintings The Future Is Woke
and Still I Rise.
Gregg Chadwick
Still I Rise (left), The Future Is Woke (right)
|
Martin Luther King Jr.
wrote that, “We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a
single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all
indirectly.”
Gregg Chadwick
The Future Is Woke (left), Scarlet Shadow (right) |
In the center of the
gallery is my large scale imagined portrait Scarlet
Shadow. In a museum or gallery, the eyes of painted portraits follow you as
you walk around the room. There is life within them. It’s the artist’s way of
drawing you in.
When a Buddhist image is
created, only when it is finished are the eyes painted in. The eyes give life
to the Buddha or the saint. As artists, we “paint in” the eyes, we paint in the
freedom, the spark that injustice threatens to take away. Artists should never
forget their own power to do this.
While in Bruges, Belgium,
I was intrigued but also taken aback by a series of small portraits of women by
the Flemish masters. In the museum these tiny portraits were
Gregg Chadwick Scarlet Shadow |
locked away in an almost
inaccessible dark glass case. I decided to create a sort of artistic jailbreak
on my return home and set one of the women free on a grand scale. Much like a
novelist allows a character to become real in the pages of a book, Scarlet came
to life on my canvas.
On June 26, 2015
Marriage Equality became the law of the land. With hundreds of others we
celebrated on the Supreme Court steps. Later that glorious day, I chatted with President
Obama’s official photographer Pete Souza in front of the White House which was
lit up in rainbow colors in celebration of the LGBTQ community.
Arrivals and Departures |
While we watched, the
Presidential Marine Corps unit arrived. Onboard was President Obama returning
from his moving speech at the memorial service for the church folks who were
gunned down by a young white supremacist in South Carolina. President Obama
sang Amazing Grace that day. Arrivals
and departures…
I painted Arrivals and Departures in memory of
that day and with the knowledge that the struggle for equality for all
continues.
Platform
|
Platform
is set on an elevated train station in Queens in New York City with a view of
Manhattan in the background. An almost impressionistic light fills the scene.
In this lyricism, I aim to draw viewers into the painting.
Leonard Cohen wrote in
the lyrics to his song Anthem:
“Ring the bells that
still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.”
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.”
The light gets in and
draws people deeper into my paintings.
Mulholland Blue is set on the opposite coast in the hills above Los Angeles. Standing
on Mulholland and looking down towards the glittering lights below, a blurred
trio contemplates the mystery of existence.
Does the woman in the
green dress meet her double and the memory of her lover? Or has time allowed
past, present and future to coalesce?
In a more mythic place,
a figure stands unclothed in a darkening forest in Indigo Night.
Alone in thought, layers
of indigo and true ultramarine create a dream world. I often buy tubes of genuine lapis lazuli
from the London color maker Michael Harding. Lapis lazuli is true ultramarine
ground into a crystalline powder and mixed with linseed oil on a stone mill. It
is the color blue found in Renaissance skies. Transparent layers of this lapis
mark each of my paintings in this exhibit. Sourced in Afghanistan, lapis lazuli
reflects the historical tides of trade, conquest, and conflict that ebb and
flow across this region and the globe.
Gregg Chadwick
Indigo Night (left), October Path (right) |
October Path is part of an ongoing series of artworks about seeking peace and
justice in a world in need of harmony. The mountain peaks of Northern Thailand,
rising above the city of Chiang Mai, are often caught in an early morning sea
of fog. October Path is set in this
mist shrouded landscape. Two Buddhist monks in saffron robes appear and then
seem to merge with the air. The color of their robes is considered the color of
illumination or satori – the highest wisdom.
Gregg Chadwick
Three Secrets |
Three Secrets brings us back into our urban world. Summer in the city. Three
young women leaving their ballet school near city hall. Secrets shared as they
walk. The afternoon light gilds their strides.
Painted images are both
timeless and immediate and can cut through the visual white noise that
surrounds us. Paintings can speak across oceans and cultures where words are
not enough.
-
Gregg
Chadwick, March 2019
Notes on Technique:
Ghosts of earlier ideas
appear within my artworks and combine with other transparent moments to create
a semblance of movement, of time passing. I build a combination of shadow and
illumination in each painting to create a sensation of light emanating from the
work. I work with oil paint and usually create at least one color in each
painting from ground pigments mixed by hand with linseed oil. Linseed oil has
the propensity to grow more transparent with age and visible traces of earlier
painted marks gradually appear because of this tendency – called pentimenti. I embrace
this eventual outcome in my work and incorporate planned and unplanned
pentimenti in my process. Unless noted, all of the paintings are created on Belgian
linen.
Gregg Chadwick
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
Email: audishusar@yahoo.com
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.
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More on the film and Arzo Yusuf in the Chronicle of Social Change
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