Revenant
Gregg Chadwick
The Station Agent
54"x54" oil on linen 2014
Private Collection, Santa Monica, California
Featured at the LA Art Show 2015 - LA Convention Center and illustrated in the catalog. January 14-18, 2015
Gregg Chadwick
Gravity's Empire
72"x36" oil on linen 2014
Carlo Siliotto Collection, Los Angeles and Rome, Italy
Gregg Chadwick
Pennsylvania 4901
(Transporting Bobby Kennedy's Coffin to Arlington Cemetery 1968)
54"x54" oil on linen 2014
Private Collection, Pebble Beach, California
Gregg Chadwick
Revenant
24"x8" oil on linen 2014
Private Collection, Los Angeles, California
Gregg Chadwick
Salish Sea
30"x24" oil on linen 2014
Ihrig Collection, Bainbridge Island, Washington
Gregg Chadwick
Moreau's Spiral
40"x40" oil on linen 2015
Private Collection, Los Angeles, California
Gregg Chadwick
Passerby (Campbell Bar, Grand Central Terminal)
24"x18"oil on linen 2014-2020
Rodeo and Brighton
10"x8" oil on panel 2015
Private Collection, Los Angeles, California
Featured in the Silent Art Auction at the 36th Annual Venice Family Clinic Art Walk and Auctions on May 17, 2015 at Google Los Angeles in the Frank Gehry designed Binoculars Building.
Gregg Chadwick
City of Angels
17"x17" oil on linen 2014
The Eliot Collection,Venice, California
Gregg Chadwick
A Getty Grey
24"x18" oil on linen 2014
Private Collection, Los Angeles, California
Gregg Chadwick
People's Pops - Stop and Frisk
8"x10"oil on panel 2014
Vilma Ortiz Collection, Los Angeles, California
Gregg Chadwick
Museum Whispers (de Young)
24”x36” oil on linen 2014
Private Collection, Venice, California
Gregg Chadwick
Joshua Tree
25"x25" oil on linen 2014
Private Collection, Berkeley, California
Gregg Chadwick
Deerhead Diner
24"x36" oil on linen 2014
Gregg Chadwick
Steinbeck Sky
18”x24” oil on linen 2014
Heilemann / Fong Collection, Long Beach, California
Gregg Chadwick
Emerald City
17"x17" oil on panel 2014
Private Collection, San Francisco
Gregg Chadwick
December Ice
8”x6” oil on panel 2014
Julie Weiss Collection, Los Angeles
Gregg Chadwick
The Language of Rain
6”x8” oil on panel 2014
Henthorn-Iwane Collection, Berkeley, California
Gregg Chadwick
Exposition Park
11”x14” oil on linen 2014
Carlo Siliotto Collection, Los Angeles and Rome, Italy
Gregg Chadwick
The Artist (Joseph Beuys)
24x30 oil on linen 2014
Private Collection, Los Angeles, California
Gregg Chadwick
Turquoise and Rose
6"x6" oil on panel 2015
Private Collection, Los Angeles, California
Gregg Chadwick
London Mews
6"x6" oil on panel 2014
Sandra Lee Collection, San Francisco
Gregg Chadwick
The Roof of the World (Hollywood)
16”x14” oil on linen 2014
Julie Weiss Collection, Los Angeles, California
Gregg Chadwick
Blue Canyon (Joan Wulf)
8"x8" oil on panel 2014
Sandra Lee Collection, San Francisco
Exhibited at Aqua Art Miami from Dec 3-7, 2014 by the Sandra Lee Gallery, San Francisco.
New Paintings by Gregg Chadwick
"Specters from a distant past ‐‐ or perhaps another level of existence ‐‐ people the nostalgic and visionary works of Gregg Chadwick. Widely recognized for his figure paintings and cityscapes, Gregg Chadwick presents his latest work in an exhibition titled Revenant, at San Francisco's Sandra Lee Gallery.” - Jeffrey Carlson
In folk mythology, a revenant is a being or force that returns from another level of existence to haunt the living. The paintings in my new series, Revenant, carry the ghosts of their former selves. Each work goes through an open-ended series of painting sessions. Surfaces are scraped down, over painted, and layered with transparent pigments. Opaque swaths of color are brushed into the wet surface, leaving remnants of past figures and locations, while memories and future visions surge to the surface and overwrite the image.
Current science is discovering that our earliest memories of childhood may be pushed out or overwritten like computer code by the growth of neurons during our early years, which could help explain the mysterious memory lapses, what Freud called “infantile amnesia”, in our childhood memories. Often, for me, bits of these ghostly, fragmented memories pop up with the hint of a remembered song, color, or aroma. I relish these revenant moments and use them as access points into my current paintings. Ghost trains roll down long abandoned tracks. Lost buildings reappear. Shadows of former selves are reflected in this mirrored world. The crackle of distant radio transmissions seems to blend with the staccato of binary code. Apparitions of friends, family, fellow artists, and passersby find their way, sometimes unbidden but welcomed, into the works. For me, these revenant figures and places bring possibility to life and lend an eerie comfort to our fleeting world. - Gregg Chadwick, Santa Monica, June 2014
Opening Reception: July 10, 2014
5:30 - 7:30 PM
Sandra Lee Gallery
251 Post Street, Suite 310
San Francisco, CA 94108
Read Jeffrey Carlson's piece for Fine Art Connoisseur here.Catalog Available
