Chuck Close doesn’t do commissions. “My subjects are my best friends and family and artists that I have a relationship with,” he says. “With a subject, I’m trying to figure out who they are, and I have to commit their faces to memory, so having a relationship with them is important.”
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Talking with Chuck Close as a retrospective of his work opens at the Corcoran Gallery of Art By Sophie Gilbert, Chris Leaman
Image by Chris Leaman.
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