Chuck Close Monroe, WA (American, b. 1940)

Oct 15, 2009 - Nov 14, 2009

Chuck Close

Monroe, WA (American, b. 1940)

I don’t try to drain all expression out, I just want a very neutral expression. If you have an extreme expression—either laughing or crying or whatever—then that’s the only content that you will get out of it. Whereas if it’s presented neutrally and flat-footedly, you can read whatever evidence is embedded in their visage, like laugh-lines and furrows or whatever, in the same way that you can make assumptions about people when you meet them at a cocktail party. I am a humanist and I hope that a bit of humanity is in there somewhere; I just don’t like to editorialize it. ...
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James 178 color silkscreen	Lyle 149 color silkscreen	Self Portrait, Pulp, Pochoir colored, pressed handmade paper pulp, pochoir	Lucas Paper/Pulp stencil on handmade paper 48 x 40 in.
Lucas linocut 31 x 22 in.	Janet linocut 31 x 22 in.	Self-Portrait silkscreen made with 80 colors 58.50 x 48 in.	Leslie/Fingerprint direct gravure etching 45.63 x 37.13 in.
Lyle 149 color silkscreen 58.25 x 47.88 in.	Chuck Close, Self-Portrait, being printed at Graphicstudio photo	James Silkscreen with 178 colors 74 x 59 in.	Lucas Paper/Pulp in 9 Colors 48 x 40 in.
Self-Portrait, Pulp Colored, Pressed Paper Pulp 57.50 x 40 in.	Phil/Fingerprint Screenprint 50.38 x 38 in.	Zhang Haun Oil on Canvas 101.50 x 84 in.	Self-Portrait oil on canvas 72 x 60 in.