Gregg Chadwick
Gregg Chadwick
36”x36” oil on linen 2017
August 2 - 31, 2017
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
Flor De Asfalto ( Sergio Arau)
50” x 80” oil on linen 2018
With his music, words and images, Sergio Arau has inspired me to create a series of paintings that feature him as the main character in my painted movies. Rock Star, actor, director, screenwriter, and artist Sergio Arau has often performed while wearing gear honoring Mexico's most famous wrestling star El Santo (The Man In the Silver Mask). Known as lucha libre, Mexican wrestlers such as El Santo are defenders of the poor and vulnerable. By taking on the persona of the Luchador (wrestler), Josh Kun writes in Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America, Sergio Arau and his bands have mixed "the traditional with the contemporary, the rural with the urban, the American with the Mexican, the charro with the rockero."
My paintings in Luchador's Dream carry Sergio Arau into a Los Angeles seemingly pulled from the lyrics of his songs or gathered from scenes of his films that were left on the cutting room floor.
Gracias Sergio!
The exhibition ran from September 7 - October 7, 2017
(Luchador's Dream is, in true rock n' roll fashion, a completely unaffiliated, and unofficial satellite exhibition of 2017: Año de México en Los Ángeles / Mexico in Los Angeles 2017)
Luchador’s Dream
September 2018’s stop on Gregg Chadwick’s tour was at The Other Art Fair in Chicago, Illinois. Chadwick exhibited a selection of artworks from his Whistle Stop Tour, which examines the mythos of America as seen through the physical and cultural history of the railroad in the United States, and also a new series of works that engage the viewer in the story of Chicago.
at Mana Contemporary Chicago
2233 S Throop St.
Chicago, IL 60608
The Other Art Fair made its LA debut at the Majestic Downtown from March 15th – 18th, 2018. For more information about the fair program visit la.theotherartfair.com
The Other Art Fair Chicago
Whistle Stop Tour
Traveling Solo Exhibition of Railroad Inspired Paintings
Mystery Train, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
December 17, 2018 - March 8, 2019
Click Here for More Images of Artwork in Mystery Train
Read More on Gregg Chadwick’s railway inspired art in Klassik Magazine -
I Grew Up with the Rails of America, A Day With Gregg Chadwick,
the Huffington Post, L.A. Weekly,
and the Wall Street International.
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 is steeped in these powerful echoes of those machine days.
Gregg Chadwick in his studio
Gregg Chadwick
40”x30”oil on linen 2019
Private Collection
Los Angeles, California
How the Light Gets In
Gregg Chadwick
Still I Rise
40”x30”oil on linen 2018
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 In
Read about the paintings at these links: “How the Light Gets In” on Medium
and Kathy Leonardo on the exhibition and benefit.
Gregg Chadwick
The Future Is Woke (left) Scarlet Shadow (right)
40”x30”oil on linen 2018 and 80”x80” oil on linen
“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 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
History of Nursing Paintings at UCLA
Gregg Chadwick's artworks for the UCLA School of Nursing are now on display.
“Ten amazing paintings evoking different aspects of nursing and the School's history will be unveiled to enhance the environment of the School of Nursing where we work, teach, study, explore, and create.”
UCLA School of Nursing
Address: Factor Bldg, 700 Tiverton Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90095
Featuring New Paintings About Los Angeles
by Gregg Chadwick
Brooke Harker, Gay Summer Rick, Teale Hatheway,
Alex Schaefer, and John Kilduff
A new group exhibition at Castelli Art Space in Culver City.
Castelli Art Space
5428 West Washington Blvd,
Los Angeles CA, 90016
RSVP dale@castelliartspace.com
My oil on linen painting Terra Nostra was inspired by the 50th anniversary of Earth Day and the first photograph taken by a human of the globe from space. On December 7, 1972, the astronauts on board Apollo 17 looked out of their spacecraft and saw the entire earth illuminated by the sun. It glowed like a blue jewel. From then on, our conception of our shared earth changed. Eugene Cernan, the pilot of that flight said to Al Reinert in an interview in Atlantic Magazine: "You have to literally just pinch yourself and ask yourself the question, silently: Do you know where you are at this point in time and space, and in reality and in existence, when you can look out the window and you're looking at the most beautiful star in the heavens -- the most beautiful because it's the one we understand and we know, it's home, it's people, family, love, life -- and besides that it is beautiful. You can see from pole to pole and across oceans and continents and you can watch it turn and there's no strings holding it up, and it's moving in a blackness that is almost beyond conception."
Please join me for The Other Art Fair Online Studios, an online platform created with Saatchi Art. Please click here for more info.
Please Save the Date for The Other Art Fair Los Angeles
August 27-30, 2020 at Barker Hangar,
3021 Airport Ave., Santa Monica, CA 90405
Please click here for free tickets and more info.
Memphis
The Saffron Road
For 20 years, I have painted artworks inspired by the aspirational nature of Buddhism.
"Gregg Chadwick paints scenes from the life of Asia that reminds us of the monastic life of pilgrimage which has been all but lost in the West."
-Ratnagarbha and Thomas Jones
from "Urthona: Journal of Buddhism and the Arts" Issue 20
Many of my new paintings in 2020 continue this theme. More art at The Saffron Road
Honored to have been chosen by The Other Art Fair Los Angeles
Director's Pick: Gregg Chadwick – Canvas: A Blog by Saatchi Art
Deep thanks to Nicole Garton,The Other Art Fair, and Saatchi Art.
More at The Other Art Fair presentsTravels With Gregg Chadwick
Gregg Chadwick
48”x36” oil on linen 2019
UCLA School of Nursing Collection
Los Angeles, California
I first became aware of the fragile nature of our planet as an elementary school student. For Christmas one year, I asked my parents for the book “Wildlife in Danger” published by the IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature). They are still an important organization providing information, plans, and hope for our endangered earth. Worried about the environment as a kid, I drew pictures of animals constantly. Now I am bringing out a series of paintings inspired by the 50th anniversary of Earth Day on April 22, 2020, that shed light on climate change, the beauty of the natural world, and our place with other species.
The Clark Hulings Fund
For two years, I was honored to be a fellow in the Clark Hulings Fund Business Accelerator Program. With no financial cost to myself, I was able to dig deep and learn how to keep my art business thriving. I was chosen to be an Executive Fellow at CHF for 2018. The Clark Hulings Fund is helping me learn how to take my Mystery Train Exhibition on tour. The Executive Fellows will receive the services of CHF to rewrite the fellow’s Investment Grade Proposal (IGP) for capitalization and underwriting to get it to the point CHF can pitch it to potential funders. Meanwhile CHF expects the fellow to continue executing on their project, and collaborating with CHF with monthly field reports and meetings, along with marketing assistance given to the fellow. Please join me for the journey ahead.
Link to Gregg Chadwick’s Clark Hulings Fund podcast with Daniel DiGriz.
