RECENT EDITIONS Exhibition: October 4 - November 10, 2007 Opening: October 6, 6 - 8 p.m.
Chuck Close also exhibiting at:
Tacoma Art Museum From Process to Portrait
Members' Opening: Saturday, March 15, 2008, 7:00 - 9:00 pm
For more information: www.tacomaartmuseum.org/ or call 253.272.4258 x 3030
In the 27 years since his first museum show, he has struggled to overcome the label of photorealist, and the subtle but constant evolution demonstrated in this retrospective should finally prove that he never really belonged in that particular school. Instead, a man concerned with the vagaries of paint and its application, with the process of seeing, and with the creative process is what emerges. - Anne Birnie
Installation View
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SELF-PORTRAIT, 2006
Jacquard tapestry
103 x 79 inches Ed/10, SOLD OUT
PHILLIP GLASS STATE II, 2006
Jacquard tapestry
103 x 79 inches Ed/6, $110,000.
KIKI, 2006
Jacquard tapestry
103 x 79 inches Edition of 6, $90,000.
(price and availability subject to change as edition sells out)
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LYLE, 2003
149-color silkscreen
58.25 x 48 inches (image area), 65.5 x 54 inches (paper)
Ed/80, Published by Pace Editions, $25,000.
(price and availability subject to change as edition sells out)
JAMES, 2004
Silkscreen made with 178 colors
Image Size: 62 1/4 x 48 inches
Paper Size: 69 1/4 x 54 1/4 inches Ed/80, Published by Pace Editions, $50,000.
(price and availability subject to change as edition sells out)
SELF-PORTRAIT WOODCUT, 2007
47 color hand printed woodcut created in the Ukiyo-e tradition with 39 blocks on Shiramine paper
37 x 30 inches
Edition of 60 $30,500.
(price and availability subject to change as edition sells out)
ROBERT I, 1982
Colored, pressed, handmade paper pulp
25 x 19 inches
Ed/20
$9,000.
ROBERT II, 1982
Colored, pressed, handmade paper pulp
30 x 22 inches
Ed/20
$9,000.
KEITH II, 1981
Colored, pressed, handmade paper pulp
35 x 26.75 inches
Ed/20
$18,000.
GEORGIA FINGERPRINT (State II), 1985
Direct Gravure Etching
30 x 22 inches
Ed/35 $9,000.
SUSAN, 1988
Colored, handmade paper
38 x 31 inches
Ed/50 $12,000.
ARNE, 1988
Etching
29.5 x 22.5 inches
Ed/35
$5,000.
JANET/ PULP, 2007
Handmade paper-pulp
47.25 x 38.5 inches
Edition of 35
$21,800 framed
SELF-PORTRAIT I, 2007
Linoleum cut printed reductively
24 x 18 inches
Ed/70
$4,500
SELF-PORTRAIT II, 2007
Linoleum cut printed reductively
24 x 18 inches
Ed/70
$4,500
SELF-PORTRAIT/SCRIBBLE/ETCHING, 2000
Softground etching from 12 color plates
18.25 x 15.25 inches
Ed/60
$9,000
SELF-PORTRAIT/SCRIBBLE/ETCHING
2001
Softground etching from
nine color plates
18.25 x 15.25 inches
Ed/60
$7,500
SELF-PORTRAIT, 2004 19 Color handprinted Ukiyo-e woodcut
28.5 x 22.75 inches
Ed/50
$18,000
SELF-PORTRAIT, 2007
Lithograph and screenprint
38 x 30.25 inches
Ed/118
$20,000
People keep asking me if I'm still painting heads, and if I say yes, they think there's been no change. - Chuck Close
Self Portrait, 1999
Relief etching on Japanese paper 39 x 30 inches
Ed/99
SOLD
(price and availability subject to change as edition sells out)
Note: Prices subject to change as editions sell out from the publishers.
Please call for the current price of any print below.
SELF PORTRAIT/SPITBITE/WHITE ON BLACK, 1997 Aquatint, 20.5 x 15.75 inches, ed/50
$7,500.
PHIL (White), PHIL (Grey) and PHIL (Black), 2002 Relief print with embossment on custom handmade paper 26.5 x 22 inches, ed/40, $7,500. each
(price and availability subject to change as edition sells out)
Lyle, 2000
Etching, 10 x 8.75 inches (image area), 18.25 x 15.25 inches (paper)
Ed/60, Published by Pace Editions, Inc, $3,500.
(price and availability subject to change as edition sells out)
Lucas, 1988
Linocut, 31 x 22 inches, Ed/50
Published By Pace Editions, Inc, $5,000.
(price and availability subject to change as edition sells out)
Chuck Close was born in the state of Washington in 1940. After graduating from the University of Washington, he received a MFA degree from Yale University in 1966. His "portrait" paintings are in over 50 major museum collections. Among the museums that have exhibited his work in the United States are the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Walker Art Center, the St. Louis Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Los Angeles County Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Butler Institute of American Art, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Fine Arts as well as the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, The Kunstraum Munich, and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. In early 1998, a retrospective of his work began a nationwide tour at the Museum of Modern Art. Close and his family live in New York City and Bridgehampton, New York. He is represented exclusively by the PaceWildenstein Gallery, New York and Pace Editions Inc., New York.
Other Prints Available by Order:
Chuck Close's subjects are his family, his friends, himself, and fellow artists whose faces are described through his distinct, meticulous marks. Working from a photograph with a grid, he builds his images by applying one careful stroke after another in multi-colors or grayscale. His works are generally larger than life and highly focused. For Close, it is the process of description that renders meaning, rather than the subject itself. - Pace Editions, NY
Robert (Rauschenberg), 1998
Photogravure, 28.75 x 24 inches Ed/48, Published by ULAE, $3,500.
