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Chuck
Close Prints
Process and Collaboration
May 14 – August 22, 2004
Upper Level Gallery
 Chuck Close, one of America’s most important
living artists, has explored the art of printmaking for more than
thirty years. This exhibition, which features 133 works dating
from 1972 to the present, is the first comprehensive exploration
of Close’s long involvement with the varied forms and processes
of printmaking. Highlighting the creative processes and technical
collaborations between the artist and master printers, the exhibition
demonstrates how Close has consistently challenged the accepted
boundaries of the printmaking tradition.
The exhibition illustrates the range of the artist’s
invention in etching, aquatint, lithography, handmade paper, direct
gravure, silkscreen, traditional Japanese woodcut, and reduction
linocut. As a group, these prints consitute a remarkable self-portrait
of the creative drive, vision, and intellect of this influential
artist.
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. The exhibition was made possible, in part,
by major grants from the Lannan Foundation and Jon and Mary
Shirley, and by generous grants from The Eleanor and Frank
Freed Foundation and Houston Endowment Inc. Financial support
has also been provided by Jonathan and Marita Fairbanks, Dorene
and Frank Herzog, Andrew and Gretchen McFarland, Carey Shuart
and The Wortham Foundation, Inc., with additional funds from
Karen and Eric Pulaski, Suzanne Slesin and Michael Steinberg,
and Texas Commission on the Arts.
At MAM, the exhibition is coordinated by Peter Boswell,
assistant director for programs and senior curator. In Miami, the
exhibition is made possible by Lehman Brothers and Neuberger Berman,
a Lehman Brothers Company. Additional support is provided by MAM’s
Annual Exhibition Fund.
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