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Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration

  • Self-Portrait/Pulp, 2001
    Stenciled handmade paper pulp in 11 varying grays
    57 1/2 x 40"
    Edition 35
    Dieu Donné Papermill, New York, and Pace Editions, Ink, New York, printers (Ruth Lingen, Paul Wong, Mae Shore, Matt Jackson, Jacob Lewis, Anne Polashenski) Pace Editions, Inc., New York, publisher 

  • Phil Spitbite, 1995
    Spitbite etching
    28 x 20"
    Edition 60
    Spring Street Workshop, New York, printer (Bill Hall, Julia D’Amario, Ruth Lingen, Pam Cooper) Pace Editions, Inc., New York, publisher

  • A Black man is painted in a stylized way. His portrait is made up of hundreds of small rectangles and squares. Inside each of them is a differnt colored squiggly blob with another color inside of it.

    Lyle, 2002
    149-color silk screen
    65 1/2 x 54"
    Edition of 80
    Brand X Editions, New York, printer (Robert Blanton, Thomas Little)
    Pace Editions, Inc., New York, publisher
    Courtesy the artist and Pace Editions, Inc., New York 

  • Against a yellowish background, a black drawing of a white woman with short curly hair, wearing hoop earrings. She is facing the viewer. It looks like a photograph and a xerox combined with an xray of a person's portrait.

    Leslie/Fingerprint, 1986
    Direct gravure
    54 1/2 x 40 1/2"
    Edition 45
    Graphicstudio, University of South Florida, Tampa, printer (Patrick Foy, George Holzer, Deli Sacilotto, Donald Saff) Graphicstudio, University of South Florida, Tampa, and Pace Editions, Inc., New York, publishers

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    Close made his first print as a professional artist in 1972, and his innovation in printmaking is now legend. In addition to including finished prints, this exhibition featured full suites of Close’s preliminary proofs and various states of editions. The exhibition also included woodblocks and etching plates for several of Close’s more complex images. Chuck Close Prints premiered at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the San Jose Museum of Art was its only northern California venue. 

     

    Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration was organized by Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston. The exhibition and publication have been generously underwritten by the Neuberger Berman Foundation. Additional support was made possible by the Lannan Foundation, Jon and Mary Shirley, The Eleanor and Frank Freed Foundation and Houston Endowment Inc., Jonathan and Marita Fairbanks, Dorene and Frank Herzog, Andrew and Gretchen McFarland, Carey Shuart, The Wortham Foundation, Inc., Karen and Eric Pulaski, Suzanne Slesin and Michael Steinberg, and Texas Commission on the Arts.

    Sponsors

    • Yvonne and Mike Nevens
    • The Oshman Family Foundation in honor of the San Jose Museum of Art's 40th Anniversary
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