Chuck Close. (Pace Gallery, New York, New York)

From: Artforum International | Date: March 1, 1994| Author: Gookin, Kirby | Copyright information

Chuck Close's portraits are colossal works made from hundreds of two-inch squares in a polychromatic grid on canvas, each of which is a portrait in itself. The viewers' impressions and visions of the portrait vary according to the angle and distance they are positioned in relation to the portrait. Viewers are drawn into physical interaction with the paintings in such a way that their perceptions and experiences are projected back to them by the works.

PACE GALLERY

Chuck Clos...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research

Close & company: a traveling survey of Chuck Close's prints and the devices used to make them offers insights into the collaborative processes of contemporary U.S. workshops.(Prints)
Art in America ; A wry exchange in the catalogue for the exhibition Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration tells us much about collaborative printmaking at its most ambitious. It comes amid a handful of interviews conducted by curator Terrie Sultan with Close and some of the printers he has worked with over
Close by his side New bio reveals the hidden side of a great comic
Chicago Sun-Times ; Del Close was a Chicagoan for most of his adult life, living among us as he shaped some of comedy's top talents and spread the gospel of long-form improvisation. When people here had Close encounters, they tended to be of the intimidating kind. Theatergoers would see his mighty stage presence.
Chuck Close's Many Faces
The Washington Post ; I REMEMBER the first day I encountered Chuck Close's jumbo-size painted "heads" (Close prefers this casual description of his art work to the more formal-sounding "portraits It was at his fall 1980 retrospective at Minneapolis's Walker Art Center, and the air outside the museum bit sharply. Inside,
Close encounters of an incredible kind. (artist Chuck Close)
Interview ; ... Francesco Clemente, Lucas Samaras. Perhaps that accounted for the sense of change. Then, a few weeks after that show in late 1988, news spread like a toxic oil spill that a mysterious catastrophe had stricken Chuck Close, leaving him totally destroyed. Was he going ...
Close encounters Chuck Close's unique head portraits are a testimony to his personal strength and will to survive; If you go What: Chuck Close When: to Sept. 13 Where: Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 E. Chicago Ave., Chicago How much: General admission is $6.50; $4 for students and seniors. Members and children 12 and under are admitted free. Admission is free on the first Tuesday of the month. For museum hours, call (312) 280-2660.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ; Courage, normally a seven-letter word, is being spelled these days with 10: C-H-U-C-K C-L-O-S-E. Close, 57, suffered a catastrophic rupture of a blood vessel in his spinal column in 1988, paralyzing him from the neck down. Yet today he is active, both as a painter and as a role model for people
Close's love of dogs inspires venture
Deseret News (Salt Lake City) ; PORTLAND, Maine -- Glenn Close's signature characters have boiled a bunny, plotted the skinning of Dalmatian puppies and, more recently, helped arrange the killing of a pet dog to leverage a balky witness. She suggests that her new business venture is a form of penance. "I'm in a redemption mode,
So Close
The Stranger ; Interviewing Chuck Close While He Photographs Himself Chuck Close turned on the speakerphone so he could do his interview while photographing himself in a Polaroid studio on Broadway in New York. He and longtime collaborator John Reuter couldn't get the shadows quite right, especially around the
GETTING CLOSE EXHIBIT OPENS SUNDAY OF MONROE NATIVE'S FAMOUS PORTRAITS.(LIFESTYLE)
The Capital Times (Madison, WI) ; Byline: Kevin Lynch The Capital Times CORRECTION: Due to incorrect information in the exhibition catalog, an article in Friday's LifeStyle on artist Chuck Close incorrectly stated his birthplace as Monroe, Wis. He was born in Monroe, Wash. An exhibit of Close's prints is running at the Madison
Close & personal // Portrait artist gets intimate
Chicago Sun-Times ; Chuck Close Saturday through Sept. 13 Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 E. Chicago Admission, $6.50; students and seniors, $4. (312) 280-2660 When you think of the painter Chuck Close, that big, skanky face is inescapable. Close's roughly 8-by-6-foot "Big Self Portrait" (1967-68) is a work that has
A STROKE HAS NOT DIMINISHED HIS STROKE ARTIST CHUCK CLOSE STILL SWIMMING AGAINST THE TIDE.(Entertainment)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) ; ``Some of you may have noticed I'm in a wheelchair said Chuck Close, kidding the crowd that packed into the University of Washington's Kane Hall to hear him last weekend. The chair is impossible to miss. He has used it since 1988, when a spinal stroke left him a partial quadriplegic, able to move