Heidi Herrera
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Lot 10
GREGG CHADWICK(20th/21st Century)City of Tomorrow (LAX), 2024
Ending from 2 May 2025, 12:00 PDT
Online, Los AngelesUS$2,400 - US$3,400
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Sharon Squires
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GREGG CHADWICK (20th/21st Century)
City of Tomorrow (LAX), 2024
signed, titled and dated 'City of Tomorrow (LAX) Chadwick 2024' (on the overlap); signed again and dated again 'Gregg Chadwick 2024' (on the stretcher); signed again 'Chadwick' (on the reverse)
oil on linen
30 x 40 in.
76.2 x 101.6 cm.
signed, titled and dated 'City of Tomorrow (LAX) Chadwick 2024' (on the overlap); signed again and dated again 'Gregg Chadwick 2024' (on the stretcher); signed again 'Chadwick' (on the reverse)
oil on linen
30 x 40 in.
76.2 x 101.6 cm.
Footnotes
Provenance
Courtesy of the artist
""City of Tomorrow (LAX)" is a key painting in my series "L.A. Stories." In these works, iconic locations and people in Los Angeles create cinematic moments captured in paint.
"City of Tomorrow" depicts the Los Angeles International Airport Theme Building at the Los Angeles International Airport.
One of Los Angeles' most iconic buildings, the Theme Building at LAX was a joint venture between Pereira & Luckman, Welton Becket and Associates, and the noted architect Paul R. Williams who appears in the painting as an image of memory.
The Space Age structure was completed in 1961 for a cost of $2.2 million. For many years, it housed an observation deck and restaurant towering 80 feet above the ground, offering 360-degree views of the airport below.
The city designated the building a Historic-Cultural Monument in 1993. It underwent extensive repairs and seismic retrofitting in 2007. In early 2014, it was announced that its restaurant, Encounter, closed. What is next for this architectural masterpiece?" -Gregg Chadwick
Artist Statement: Gregg Chadwick has exhibited his artworks in galleries and museums both nationally and internationally. He earned a bachelor's degree at UCLA and a master's degree at NYU, both in Fine Art. He has had notable solo exhibitions at the Manifesta Maastricht Gallery (Maastricht, The Netherlands), Space AD 2000 (Tokyo, Japan), the Lisa Coscino Gallery (Pacific Grove, CA), the Julie Nester Gallery (Park City, Utah), the Sandra Lee Gallery (San Francisco), and Audis Husar Fine Arts (Los Angeles) among others.
He has participated in over one hundred group exhibitions including the L Ross Gallery (Memphis, Tennessee), the Andrea Schwartz Gallery (San Francisco), the LOOK Gallery (Los Angeles), the di Rosa Preserve Gallery (Napa), and the Arts Club of Washington (Washington, D.C.). Chadwick's artwork has been featured at Saatchi Art's The Other Art Fair (Los Angeles, Dallas, and Chicago), Aqua Art Miami, artMRKT San Francisco, the Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, and the LA Art Show.
Chadwick's art is notably included in the collections of the Adobe Corporation, the Gilpin Museum, the Central City Opera, the Graciela Hotel Burbank, the Harbor Court Hotel, the Kimpton Group's headquarters in San Francisco, Nordstrom, the W Hotel Hollywood, the UCLA School of Nursing, and Winona State University.
Chadwick is frequently invited to lecture on the arts; twice a year he delivers a key lecture on art and social justice at UCLA in an interdisciplinary form with the UCLA School of Nursing, and has spoken at Monterey Peninsula College, the Esalen Institute, and at the World Views forum in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Chadwick is the proud father of his transgender daughter Cassiel Chadwick.