The Time Between
New Paintings by Gregg Chadwick
“I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.” - Alan Watts
"People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." - Albert Einstein
The pulse and blur of our human experience reveals vital traces of who we are in a time that is simultaneously past and present, leaning into the future. The ancient Greeks used two words to describe the concept of time, chronos (Χρόνος) and kairos (καιρός). Chronos refers to chronological or sequential time, kairos describes a time between - a moment of indeterminate time in which beauty or profundity arrives. While chronos refers to seconds and milliseconds as the clock pendulum swings, kairos has a qualitative aspect, time experienced as flow, moments of meaning, or poignancy. My paintings in the exhibit The Time Between, at the Sandra Lee Gallery, consider these two concepts of time. These artworks evolved through a series of painting sessions in which moments and colors, hours and images overlapped, merged, and combined - blurring the nature between time perceived and moment conceived. - Gregg Chadwick
Opening Reception: March 7, 2013
5:30 - 7:30 PM
Sandra Lee Gallery
251 Post Street, Suite 310
San Francisco, CA 94108
Read Peter Clothier's Catalog Essay for The Time Between here, and Jeffrey Carlson's review for Fine Art Connoisseur here.