Summer Ambassadors: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band

Video: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band perform Drive All Night in Gothenburg, Sweden on July 28, 2012.

Tonight, July 31, 2012, in Helsinki, Finland,  the indefatigable Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band just finished one of their  most powerful European music tours with one of the longest shows of their career. The show in Helsinki began with an impromptu pre-show set of songs with just Bruce and an acoustic guitar. The show ended not long ago with a run time of just over four hours. This summer, Springsteen and the E Street Band were true American cultural ambassadors as they roamed across Europe armed with searing music and goodwill. The presumptive Republican nominee, Mitt Romney, could learn a thing or two about international relations from Bruce and the band.



Video: Jake Clemons' Sax solo from Jungleland live on July 28, 2012 in Gothenburg, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band



Video: Bruce Springsteen and Little Steven performing We Shall Overcome in Oslo, Norway, in memory of the 77 Norwegians murdered on the 22nd of July 2011.

"Steve and I are honored to be included here tonight, and for all of us who love democracy and tolerance, it was an international tragedy," Bruce told the assembled crowd in Oslo. "I want to send this out as prayer for a peaceful future for Norway, and dedicate it to the families who have lost their loved ones."
-Bruce Springsteen

Song by Song Reviews of Wrecking Ball on Speed of Life:

1. We Take Care of Our Own

2. Easy Money

3. Shackled and Drawn

4. Jack of All Trades

5. Death to My Hometown

6. This Depression

7. Wrecking Ball

8. You've Got It

9. Rocky Ground

10. Land of Hope and Dreams

11. We Are Alive

The Art of Gregg Chadwick Featured in The Scream - Journal of the Arts

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"Echoing layered fragments from the past," Gregg Chadwick's paintings resemble a "fragile palimpsest," offering "under images that bring forth mysterious fragments" from his subconscious.

Please Click Enter & Wander Through An Evocative Feature on the Art of Gregg Chadwick Curated by Stuart Vail and Joanne Warfield

" We need to embrace the beauty of Art to grace our lives and hope that the fruit of the Muses will prevail. I maintain that our salvation may lie in the hands of those who embrace beauty, those in whose works celebrate the majesty and purity of life itself."

—Stuart Vail, Editor

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La Vita Trasparente (The Transparent Life)

Gregg Chadwick

La Vita Trasparente (The Transparent Life)

48"x36" oil on linen 2012

Inspired by the poem

La Vita Trasparente by Luigi Fontanella:

LA VITA TRASPARENTE

Luigi Fontanella

Apre la città le sue strade,

corrono biciclette senza persone,

alla finestra s'affaccia

e sparisce un volto di donna,

le vetrine offrono sessi

per ogni stagione,

giro di vite:

balla una coppia agile e magra

nella piazza deserta,

la corsa degli uomini,

agita chiome il bosco

in controluce,

passi su foglie

e solchi di fango duro,

viale d'autunno

carrozza regale

pioggia di rugiada

e di carta:

la vita trasparente.

The Transparent Life

by Luigi Fontanella

(translation by W.S. di Piero)

the city opens its streets,

bicycles go by riderless,

a woman's face in a window

appears then vanishes,

shop windows offer fetishes

for every season,

lives turning,

a slender agile couple dances

in the deserted piazza,

the race men run,

the hairy woods shivering

against the grain of light,

footsteps on leaves

a furrow of stiff mud,

avenue of autumn

royal coach

rain of dew

and paper -

the transparent life.

More at:

Luigi Fontanella

Barcarole

Gregg Chadwick 

Barcarole

14"x14" oil on linen 2012

Mulholland Drive

Gregg Chadwick

Mulholland Drive

30"x40" oil on linen 2012

The Poet of Milan

Gregg Chadwick

Il Poeta di Milano (The Poet of Milan)

24"x18" oil on linen 2012

The Venetian Night

Gregg Chadwick

La Notte

14"x11" oil on linen 2012

La Notte, my latest painting, was begun shortly after I returned from my latest excursion to Venice, Italy. Venice, poised between sea and land, is a place where light, shade, color, and reflection merge and recombine in the city's watery environment. In this mirrored world, past and present seem to coexist. History’s shadows slide in and out of darkened alleys and slip along narrow canals.

The color and light found in the artworks of the Venetian painters Bellini, Carpaccio, Giorgione, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese, and Tiepolo, seen up close in the city of their creation, is always revelatory. These artist's artworks glow like light upon water. This effect of reflected, sparkling light bouncing off canals, is called gibigiane in Venetian dialect. The liquid nature of transparent oils glowing from within, as if light lived within the pigment, seems to fix this quixotic glow onto canvas.

Now Represented by the Sandra Lee Gallery!

I am honored to announce that my artwork is now represented in San Francisco and the Bay Area by the 

Sandra Lee Gallery
251 Post Street, Suite 310
San Francisco, CA 94108
tel: 415.291.8000
art@sandraleegallery.com

Four of my latest paintings are hanging in the gallery, including my most recent artwork - West Village Reader (see below). Please stop in to view the art and say hello to Sandra Lee.

Gregg Chadwick

West Village Reader

14"x11" oil on linen 2012