• Chuck Close. The book is standing upright and features a Chuck Close self portrait with yellow text.
  • The book is open to two pages. The right side has an image of a Chuck Close portrait of a woman titled "Suzanne II." The left page has a close up image of this portrait.
  • The book is open to two pages and there is a close up image of a Chuck Close portrait across both. They are squares in tones of blue, beige, and red.
  • The book is open to two pages, there is a portrait of Fred Wilson on a tapestry on the right page and the left page has a description of the work in small black font.
  • A stack of five Chuck Close books.
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Chuck Close: Red, Yellow and Blue: The Last Paintings

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Published on the occasion of Pace Gallery's first exhibition of his work since the artist's death in 2021, Chuck Close: Red, Yellow, and Blue—The Last Paintings spotlights Close's final body of paintings, which employ a palette of only three colors. Layering transparent glazes of red, yellow, and blue paint, Close created an effect of abstract likeness entirely different from that of his previous work. Alongside studio photography and images of Close's mosaic works, this volume features a previously unpublished 2018 interview between Close and Cindy Sherman—originally commissioned by The Brooklyn Rail—as well as a new critical essay by Carter Ratcliff, which considers Close’s final works in depth. These texts, along with an introduction by Phong Bui, appear alongside an essay by Barbara Knappmeyer that examines the artist’s renderings of the face in the context of facial recognition technology.

Publication details

Contributors: Phong Bui, Carter Ratcliff, Barbara Knappmeyer. Conversation with Cindy Sherman
Publisher: Pace Publishing
Publication date: 2024
Softcover
88 pages : 63 color images
11 ¾ × 14 ¼ inches
ISBN: 9781948701709
Chuck Close. The book is standing upright and features a Chuck Close self portrait with yellow text.
The book is open to two pages. The right side has an image of a Chuck Close portrait of a woman titled "Suzanne II." The left page has a close up image of this portrait.
The book is open to two pages and there is a close up image of a Chuck Close portrait across both. They are squares in tones of blue, beige, and red.
The book is open to two pages, there is a portrait of Fred Wilson on a tapestry on the right page and the left page has a description of the work in small black font.
A stack of five Chuck Close books.

Chuck Close

Chuck Close is known for his innovative conceptual portraiture, depicting his subjects, which are transposed from photographs, into visual data organized by gridded compositions.

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