Gregg Chadwick
Gregg Chadwick
Rio Grande
30”x40” oil on linen 2015
I grew up with the rails of America in my blood. My grandfather Arthur Desch, worked as a fireman stoking coal in steam engines before he advanced to train engineer on the Jersey Central Line. Parties and family gatherings in my grandparent’s home brought the rhythms of the rails home. In their clean but Jersey dank basement, the sounds of railroad workers echoed in the music my aunts and cousins played in the shadows of the train lines outside. From Junior Parker, to Elvis Presley, to Bob Dylan, to Johnny Cash, to The Band, to Bruce Springsteen, to Michael McDermott, to arts writer Greil Marcus, to film writer and director Jim Jarmusch, the enduring mythos of America and its legacy has been wrapped in the blues notes of the song Mystery Train. Recently, while flipping through my mom’s carefully tended scrapbook, I found black and white memories of my family’s yearnings, struggles, and triumphs. Whispers of cellar mysteries found their way back into my thoughts and dreams. Today as I paint, a current song by Gary Clark Jr., When My Train Pulls In, propels me back into memories of earlier sounds of passion and propulsion. My current series of paintings, Mystery Train, is steeped in these powerful echoes of those machine days.
Mystery Train
February 2 - 29, 2016 at Sandra Lee Gallery in San Francisco
A Solo Exhibition of New Paintings
Closing Party and Artist Talk - February 27, 2016 2 - 4 pm
Sandra Lee Gallery
251 Post Street, Suite 310
San Francisco, CA 94108
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Gregg Chadwick
Mystery Train (20th Century Limited)
60”x48” oil on linen 2016
Gregg Chadwick
Elvis Presley (Suspicion)
36”x36” oil on linen 2016
One In a Million
August 2 - 27, 2016
5040 Sanderlin, Suite 104, Memphis, Tennessee 38117
901-767-2200 art@lrossgallery.com
“Gregg Chadwick takes the opposite stance in the oil-on-linen Elvis Presley (Suspicion). Here, a familiar depiction of the singer is rendered in blurry, shadowy lines, as if his memory is slowly fading and becoming the stuff of rumor and legend tending toward oblivion.”
- Fredric Koeppel, The Commercial Appeal
Gregg Chadwick
Purple Rain
(Prince Rogers Nelson)
18”x18” oil on linen 2016
Gregg Chadwick
The Future Is Woke
40”x30” oil on linen 2017
With millions of others, I marched in the #WomensMarch. Our crowd in Los Angeles numbered around 750,000. The Future Is Woke is the first in a series of paintings exploring this time of change.
As we carry the spirit of the Women's March forward: On Saturday, January 28th 2017, from 1-3pm at the Santa Monica Art Studios, a vibrant panel discussion on Art in the Time of Trump was held.
Santa Monica Art Studios, 3026 Airport Avenue, Santa Monica CA 90405
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