Description
As you enter the West Gallery from the Main Gallery, on your right you’ll see a photographic portrait and a series of color-separations of the same image. In the early 70s, Chuck Close was experimenting with various photographic processes as the basis for paintings. Here he used each color-separated version, one color at a time, to create a large acrylic painting – a very time consuming process. He was attempting to distance himself from his schooling in expressionist-style painting, and looking for ways to make his work as mechanical, rigid, and expressionless as possible.