An Introduction to Chuck Close
You can find out about:
- museums and art galleries, exhibitions and websites where you can see his work,
- books and articles about his artwork and his life and
- other resources for artists wanting to improve their knowledge about Chuck Close, his views on art and his own work, his techniques and reviews by others of his work.
Note that works by this artist are not in the public domain. Chuck Close is alive and all his work is protected by international copyright laws until at least 70 years after his death.
New links are being added on a regular basis. See the right hand column for ways of bookmarking and sharing this site.
You can find out about......
......just click a link to go straight to that topic
- An Introduction to Chuck Close
- About Chuck Close
- BOOKS: Chuck Close by Chuck Close
- Chuck Close in Museums and Art Galleries
- Chuck Close - images online
- Chuck Close - the painting process
- Chuck Close - Prints and printing process
- BOOKS: About Chuck Close
- Chuck Close - Exhibitions
- Interviews with Chuck Close
- Articles about Chuck Close
- Book Reviews - of books about or by Chuck Close
- VIDEOS: Chuck Close on You Tube
- Chuck Close - blogs and blogging
- Making A Mark
- Comments and Suggestions
- Who is makingamark?
- and finally......
An Introduction to Chuck Close
Wikipedia article
Chuck Thomas Close (born July 5, 1940, Monroe, Washington) is an American painter and photographer who achieved fame as a photorealist, through his massive-scale portraits. Though a catastrophic spinal artery collapse in 1988 left him severely paralyzed, he has continued to paint and produce work which remains sought after by museums and collectors.
About Chuck Close
Biographical and other aspects of his life
- Chuck Close: Man & His Life
- Man & His Life
The remarkable career of artist Chuck Close extends beyond his completed works of art. More than just a painter, photographer, and printmaker, Close is a builder who, in his words, builds "painting experiences for the viewer." Highly renowned as a painter, Close is also a master printmaker, who has, over the course of more than 30 years, pushed the boundaries of traditional printmaking in remarkable ways. - AskArt - Chuck Close - Quick facts
- AskArt - Chuck Close - Quick facts
- Ask Art - Chuck close - Biography
- The full biography is available for free each Friday
- Pace Wilderstein - Chuck Close - Biography
- Honored by numerous cultural institutions throughout the United States, Close has been the recipient of many distinctions
Since 1969 Close has participated in over 400 group exhibitions of international scope, including Documenta, Kassel, Germany (1972, 1977), the Tokyo Biennale (1974), the Corcoran Gallery of Art Biennial (1975, 2001), the Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial (1977, 1979, 1991), the Venice Biennale (1993, 1995), and the Carnegie International (1995-96). - Chuck Close: Information from Answers.com
- Chuck Close ( b Monroe, WA, 5 July 1940). American painter and printmaker.
- Great Room - An Inside Look at Artist Chuck Close's West Village Penthouse -- New York Magazine
- In order to make their freshly built West Village penthouse accommodate a lifetime's worth of art and books, and the artist's wheelchair, Chuck and Leslie Close had to start by taking it apart.
- Chuck Close -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia
- American artist noted for his highly inventive techniques used to paint the human face. He is best known for his large-scale, Photo-Realist portraits.
BOOKS: Chuck Close by Chuck Close
books on Amazon
Chuck Close: A Couple of Ways of Doing Something
"A Couple of Ways of Doing Something" replicates a deluxe limited-edition portfolio whose initial run was only 75 copies. This clothbound edition preserves the luxurious sensibility of the original with 22 extraordinary oversized daguerreotypes printed in rich tritone. Working with daguerreotype master Jerry Spagnoli to conquer the complexities of this venerable process, which yields images of astonishing detail and gravity, Chuck Close photographed many of the same artist-friends who have made regular appearances in his paintings over the years
Avg. Customer Rating: 
Usually ships in 24 hours
Chuck Close
Published 1998 by the Museum of Modern Art
in connection with the MOMA exhibition "Chuck Close"
Avg. Customer Rating:
Chuck Close: Self-Portraits 1967-2005
Catalog of an exhibition to be held at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, July 24-Oct. 16, 2005, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Nov. 19, 2005-Feb. 21, 2006, at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Mar. 25-July 9, 2006, and at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, July 22-Oct. 22, 2006.
Avg. Customer Rating:
Chuck Close in Museums and Art Galleries
- SFMOMA | Exhibitions | Exhibition Overview: Chuck Close
- A prolific and celebrated artist, Chuck Close has worked for nearly four decades within a carefully defined practice focused exclusively on portraiture. ...
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Special Exhibitions: Chuck Close ...
- The subjects of the prints by renowned contemporary artist Chuck Close, like those of his large paintings, are the faces of relatives and fellow artists, ...
- Chuck Close: Self-Portraits 1967-2005
- Celebrated as one of the most influential figurative painters of our time, Chuck Close has remained a vital presence by focusing exclusively on portraiture, ...
- Chuck Close (1940 - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
- Chuck Close After studying at Yale University, Chuck Close moved to New York and came under the influence of photographic painter Claude Cahun.
- White Cube - Chuck Close
- Since the late 1960s Chuck Close has been concentrating on portraiture and the human face in painting and photography and is one of the most celebrated ...
- Barabra Krakow gallery - Chuck Close
- Chuck Close John, 1997 100 color silkscreen 64 1/2 x 54 1/2 inches. ... Chuck Close James, 2004 Silkscreen made with approximately 165 colors ...
- Chuck Close
- New York artist Chuck Close has spent four decades representing the human face in a myriad of mediums. In depicting the countenances of family members and ...
- Chuck Close: Self-Portraits 1967-2005
- Chuck Close: Self-Portraits 1967-2005, co-organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, ...
- NPR: Artist Chuck Close
- He's been called the "reigning portraitist of the Information Age." He creates jumbo-size faces on canvas (8 or 9 feet high), copying them from photographs.
- BP Portrait Award 2007 » Blog Archive » Chuck by Paul Oxborough
- Oxborough met the artist, Chuck Close, through a friend and was able to secure some of the painter's time for a sitting in Close's New York studio. ...
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Special Exhibitions: Chuck Close ...
- Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration ... Chuck Close (American, born 1940) Final signed print from portfolio of 12 plate proofs and 12 progressive ...
- CHUCK CLOSE b
- The stark, monumental portraits by Chuck Close gained recognition in the early 1970s. Ideologically, art critics align Close with the Photo Realists because ...
- Museum of Contemporary Photography
- Chuck Close began using photography as a tool to obtain images for his paintings. ... Chuck Close. New York: Museum of Modern Art: Distributed by Harry N. ...
- Chuck Close - Infoplease.com
- See The Portraits Speak: Chuck Close in Conversation with 27 of His Subjects (1998); J. Guare, Chuck Close: Life and Work, 1988-1995 (1996); studies by C. ...
- Booklyn Artists Alliance | Chuck Close, N.Y., NY
- In 1999, Chuck Close began taking photographs using the daguerreotype process, working with Jerry Spagnoli in his New York studio. ...
- Working In Close | 43 Folders
- Chuck Close It may be that I like hearing about the work habits of writers and artists I like almost as much as I like their work. How do you force yourself ...
- MAM - Collection - Contemporary Art - Chuck Close
- Chuck Close. Chuck Close mapped out a singular style by drawing upon elements of Pop Art, Minimalism, and Photo-Realism. Taking the photographic portrait as ...
- Chuck Close: A Portrait in Progress - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes ...
- An overview of Chuck Close: A Portrait in Progress, including cast and credit details, a review summary, and more.
- Chuck Close Quotes
- 20 quotes and quotations by Chuck Close. ... Chuck Close At the same time that I'm finding the color world I want, I'm also trying to make the imagery, ...
- YouTube - Painting Process/Process Painting, MoMA, Chuck Close, 1 of 2
- Excerpt from the public program Painting Process/Process Painting, featuring artists Chuck Close and Carroll Dunham.Held in conjunction with the exhibition, ...
- Haber's Art Reviews: Chuck Close's Habits of Disbelief
- Chuck Close at the Museum of Modern Art, from reviews by John Haber of New York City art galleries and museums.
- High : Experience - Exhibitions
- Chuck Close. Home; About the Exhibition · Events & Programs · Plan Your Visit/Tickets · Travel Packages · Group Sales · Sponsors ...
- MY NEW YORK: CHUCK CLOSE
- Dec 30, 2007 ... When I came here ... I had this smorgasbord of incredible visual experiences available to me wherever I went." Photorealist painter Chuck ...
- Chuck Close, Pointillism & Microarrays
- George Seurat was a master of pointillism over 100 years ago, but Chuck Close is a more modern master of pointillism. Below are some links that let you ...
- National Gallery of Art, Washington - Images by Chuck Close
- Artist Chuck Close, American, born 1940
Chuck Close - images online
- Chuck Close on artnet
- Chuck Close on ArtNet - overview
- ArtNet - Chuck Close Artwork online
- Chuck Close - 117 Artworks online
- Chuck Close: Links to Every Work Viewable on the Internet
- Chuck Close (born 1940) is an American photorealist specializing in close-up portraits and self-portraits. In 1988, in mid-career, Close was paralyzed due to a blood clot in his spinal column. He regained partial use of his arms, and was able to return to painting after developing techniques which........
- Home :: Chuck Close :: An American photorealist specializing in close-up portraits and self-portraits
- ChuckClose.com is a tribute to Chuck Close, an American photorealist specializing in close-up portraits and self-portraits
- Telegraph | Picture Gallery | CHUCK CLOSE
- The images in this gallery all come from the forthcoming book: Chuck Close: Work, by Christopher Finch which is published by Prestel on Monday 22nd October ...
Chuck Close - the painting process
- L&S Video: Chuck Close: Close Up
- Chuck Close paints oversized, closely cropped images. "As an artist I am interested in the face," says Close. Working from photographs and employing a grid ...
- ArtsNet Minnesota: Identity: Chuck Close
- Chuck Close is associated with the style of painting called Photorealism or Superrealism. In this style, artists in the early 1970s created a link between representational systems of painting and photography. Photorealism developed as a reaction to the detachment of Minimalism and conceptual art, which did not depict representational images. Photorealists frequently used a grid technique to enlarge a photograph and reduce each square to formal elements of design. Each grid was its own little work of art. Many of the Photorealists used the airbrush technique.
- No Cigar - By Christopher Benfey - Slate Magazine
- The austere installation of Chuck Close's big portraits at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City begins where any artist wants the narrative of his career to begin: with fully achieved art.
..........While moving into color, Close found ways to engage the crisscross grid that had always been part of his procedure for enlarging photographic images. First, he made the grid an explicit element of his compositions. Then, he experimented with different ways to fill that grid: pointillist colored dots, blobs of papier-mâché, fingerprints and, finally, the colorful Symbolist doodles he now favors. - washingtonpost.com: Style Live: Chuck Close
- Using a black-and-white photograph overlaid with a grid, Close created his earliest monumental paintings with an air brush and boundless patience. He took as his guiding philosophy the idea that, as he says, "the process will set you free."
- Fanny/Fingerpainting
- Chuck Close (artist) American, born 1940
Fanny/Fingerpainting, 1985
oil on canvas
overall: 259.1 x 213.4 x 6.3 cm (102 x 84 x 2 1/2 in.)
Fanny/Fingerpainting, a portrait of Close's mother-in-law, represents one of the largest and most masterly executions of a technique the artist developed in the mid-l980s. That technique involved the direct application of pigment to a surface with the artist's fingertips. - Chuck Close: Process & Collaboration
- Process & Collaboration Chuck Close's paintings are labor-intensive and time-consuming, and his prints are more so.%uFFFD While a painting can occupy Close for months, it is not unusual for one print to take upward of two years
Chuck Close - Prints and printing process
- Chuck Close: Exhibition Information
- September 13 through November 23, 2003
For more than 30 years, Chuck Close-renowned as one of America's foremost artists in any media-has explored the art of printmaking in his continuing investigation into the principles of perception. This exhibition provides a comprehensive survey of the full extent of Close's long involvement with the varied forms and processes of printmaking, and the first such investigation in more than twelve years of what can only be termed a prodigious accomplishment in the field.
BOOKS: About Chuck Close
books on Amazon
Chuck Close: Work
The first comprehensive critical examination of one of America's most celebrated living artists. Chuck Close reinvented portraiture almost four decades ago with a series of nine-foot-tall, black-and-white likenesses of himself and fellow artists, which astonished an art world dominated by minimalism and conceptualism. Close has since explored the possibilities implicit in his original breakthrough in an array of mediums. This lavish, large-format volume is the first to deal with all aspects of Close's career and to place them in a biographical context.
A comprehensive monograph dedicated to Chuck Close's career was published by Prestel in November. Chuck Close: Work by Christopher Finch is what Close describes as "the book [about my work] that I've always wanted."
Christopher Finch's insight into Close's achievement comes by way of hundreds of studio visits and thousands of hours of conversation since he met Close in 1968.
Avg. Customer Rating:
Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration
By Terrie Sultan, Chuck Close, Richard Shiff, Blaffer Gallery
Published by Princeton University Press
Since making his first prints in 1972, Close, who is also a painter and photographer, has employed the artistic language of etching, aquatint, lithography, handmade paper, direct gravure, silkscreen, traditional Japanese woodcut, European woodcut, and reduction linocut.
Chuck Close--a man who describes himself as "an artist looking for trouble"--has for three decades consistently but variously challenged the accepted boundaries of the printmaking tradition. Published to accompany a retrospective of his prints opening at Blaffer Gallery and traveling to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and several additional museums around the country, this is the first comprehensive survey of Close's revolutionary prints.
Featuring exquisite reproductions of the prints together with essays on Close's career and in-depth interviews with the artist and his master printmakers, the volume blends words and images to give readers unique insight into the creative process. The text highlights the intensely collaborative nature of Close's project and looks into the challenges posed by the unprecedented huge scale he prefers.
Avg. Customer Rating: 
Close Reading: Chuck Close and the Artist Portrait
One of the most admired and innovative contemporary artists working today, Chuck Close has pioneered ideas of scale, form, and color through the theme of portraiture, a genre that he has fundamentally redefined. The first book to focus on Close's self-portraits and the portraits he has made of fellow artists,Close Readingis a uniquely intimate portrait of Close's life and work by the former director of the Walker Art Center, Martin Friedman, a longtime friend who has had unprecedented access to the artist. After covering the biographical details of Close's life-including the sudden illness in 1988 that led to near-complete paralysis, and the degree of recovery that enabled him to continue his painting career-Friedman moves on to a probing examination of Close's self-portraiture. The final section deals with Close's paintings of artist subjects, among them Cindy Sherman, Francesco Clemente, Jasper Johns, and William Wegman. Included here are Close's insightful comments about these works and Friedman's discussions with the artists themselves, which reveal much about Close's accomplishments and issues of self-portraiture in both Close's art and their own.
Avg. Customer Rating:
Fliptomania Chuck Close Self-portrait
This 4 x 6 flipbook is based on Chuck Close's 2000 self-portrait. As you flip through the pages you begin with little circular shapes (as shown on the cover), and zoom out to the full image of the artist that the shapes make-up. Or start from the back and watch it zoom in to the little shapes!--publisher description.
Avg. Customer Rating: 
Chuck Close - Exhibitions
- White Cube — Family and Others
- Chuck Close: Family and Others
10 Oct - 17 Nov 2007
Mason's Yard
White Cube, Mason's Yard presented an exhibition of new paintings, tapestries and photographs by American artist Chuck Close. - 2007 Whitney Gala Honoring Chuck Close: Party Coverage on Style.com
- The Whitney was chock-full of Chuck Close fans-many of them major artists themselves-at the museum's Monday-night gala celebrating the living legend. ...
- Adamson Gallery/ Adamson Editions: Past and future exhibitions
- Adamson Gallery
Chuck Close: A Couple of Ways of Doing Something. Prints, Daguerreotypes, & Holograms Sep 10 - Oct 22, 2005 - Chuck Close: Exhibition Information
- Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration
September 13 through November 23, 2003 - KMA: Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration
- Knoxville Museum of Art - Excellent overview of the career of Chuck Close - with images - as an introduction to the exhibition Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration
Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration examines Chuck Close's long association with printmaking and innovative printing processes, focusing exclusively on the artist's prints. Close made his first print as a professional artist in 1972. That year he began to push the boundaries of printmaking and has continued to do so for more than 30 years. Close wanted his prints to not be simply reproductions of his well-known paintings, but rather be separate investigations into a new arena of image making. - Picturing America: The Deutsche Guggenheim presents Photorealism in the 1970s
- Berlin, The Deutsche Guggenheim, a joint venture of Deutsche Bank and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in New York, presents Picturing America: Photorealism in the 1970s, March 7 to May 10, 2009. ...
Features 'Leslie' (1973) by Chuck Close
Interviews with Chuck Close
- Chuck Close | Conversation with Chuck Close | WGBH Forum Network | Free Online Lectures
- WGBH Forum Network - Free Online Audio and Video
- CHUCK CLOSE previously at Film Forum in New York City
- CHUCK CLOSE previously at Film Forum, New York's leading movie house for independent premieres and repertory programming
- A conversation with Chuck Close - Charlie Rose - March 2007
- Charlie Rose - A conversation with Chuck Close in March 2007
- A conversation with artist Chuck Close - Charlie Rose - February 1998
- Charlie Rose - A conversation with Chuck Close in February 1998
- Chuck Close Oral History Interview Conducted by Judd Tully for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1987
- Smithsonian Archives of American Art
Interview with Chuck Close
Conducted by Judd Tully
At the artist's studio in New York City
May 14, 1987 - Chuck Close - directed by Marion Cajori.
- Chuck Close - Marion Cajori's magisterial documentary on renowned painter Chuck Close, begun in 1993 and finally edited just before the filmmaker's 2006 death,
An Art Kaleidoscope Foundation production. Produced, directed by Marion Cajori. - village voice > film > Tracking Shots: Chuck Close by Michelle Orange
- Tracking Shots: Chuck Close
- L&S Video: Chuck Close: Close Up
- Chuck Close paints oversized, closely cropped images. "As an artist I am interested in the face," says Close. Working from photographs and employing a grid ...
Articles about Chuck Close
- artnet.com Magazine Features - Close Talker
- Close Talker
by Roberta Fallon
A crowd of artists, students and other art lovers fills the Zellerbach Theatre at the University of Pennsylvania for the sold-out lecture, "An Evening with Chuck Close," on Apr. 7, 2005. - Habits of Disbelief by John Haber in New York City
- Chuck Close at the Museum of Modern Art,
from reviews by John Haber of New York City art galleries and museums - mediabistro.com: Welcome 2008 with Chuck Close
- Or at least the new documentary about him, now playing at Film Forum in New York City through January 8th
Book Reviews - of books about or by Chuck Close
- lens culture photo book review: Chuck Close
- A Couple Ways
of Doing Something
Photographs by Chuck Close
and poems by Bob Holman
Chuck Close has almost always used photographs as source material to create his artful portraits, whether in his painstakingly hyper-realistic larger-than-life paintings, or with wood-block prints, or those constructed from blobs of hand-made colored paper pulp.
Chuck Close - blogs and blogging
- Drawing Connections: Chuck Close: A Systematic Approach to Portraiture
- Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Chuck Close: A Systematic Approach to Portraiture
Making A Mark
Katherine Tyrrell's blog about: - Making marks with pastels, pencils and pen and ink - Creating new drawings and paintings - Influences on developing both artwork and art careers - Interviews with artists - Information about resources for artists and art lovers ....and best viewed in Firefox
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byComments and Suggestions
Let me know what you think - but please do not spam
Please note:
* Anybody can comment BUT
* All comments are moderated before publication
* All html is stripped out of comments. Spam is not published.
* All suggestions about the inclusion of websites relating to contemporary artists will be reviewed but will only be published if the website is added.
* Please do not ask me to rate your lens (see Squidoo FAQs)
Who is makingamark?
-
Who is Making A Mark?
-
I'm an artist with a very wide range of interests who enjoys learning about art, making art and sharing information about art. I've combined all my information sites with sections of my other websites and blogs to highlight my main interests and acti...
