Reblog of the day! We can’t wait to see this amazing project come to life in four years, it will certainly make morning commutes for some a bit brighter!
Chuck Close talks about his Arts for Transit Subway project
News Flash! Carol Vogel writes in today’s New York Times:
Here’s something positive for art lovers, anyway: Metropolitan Transportation Authority Arts for Transit has commissioned Chuck Close to create a permanent installation for the 86th Street and Second Avenue station, which is scheduled to open in 2016.
In the article, Vogel reports:
Instead of painting portraits, Mr. Close will be creating mosaics. “My work has always had a mosaiclike quality to it,” Mr. Close said in a telephone interview. “So it’s not such a stretch. The idea is to reflect the riding population: old people, young people, people of color, Asians. I’m going to do as many as 12 separate mosaics, mainly from pictures of artists I’ve taken over the years.”
He added, “The richness of the city is all the various cultures coming together, and the richness of my art will be to simultaneously let people in on how many ways there are to build an image.”
We can’t wait for you to see it!!!
Photo: Laura Miller, courtesy of the artist and The Pace Gallery
This clip offers a bit of background on the labor intensive process that went into Chuck Closes’ series A Couple of Ways of Doing Something, which was on view at the Wichita Art Museum earlier this month.
In the latest installment of “Note to Self” on CBS, Chuck Close writes a letter to himself at age 14, offering himself advice on how to overcome his learning disabilities and his problem with face blindness.
A behind-the-scene’s look at the editioning process to complete just one Chuck Close “Roy” at Pace Paper in Gowanus.
Artists: Ruth Lingen, Shannon Kelley, Michael Adams, Akemi Martin, Cory Barber, Ason Milani, Mary MacGill. Camera and Editing by Eli Obus. Pace Prints 2010
Imagine you couldn’t recognize people’s faces, and even your own family looked unfamiliar. Lesley Stahl of 60 Minutes reports on face blindness, highlighting Pace artist, Chuck Close.
when students from brooklyn’s PS 8 met with chuck close, at his studio in 2010, to learn more about his life & career, their 2hr meeting spawned a book. love the guggenheim’s learning through art program for this!
“The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case.”
Looking for some last minute gift ideas for the art enthusiasts in your family? All day we will be giving you some great suggestions!
Pace Gift Guide #1: For the post-grad punk we suggest this T-shirt featuring the work Big Self-Portrait, 1967-1968 by Chuck Close, part of the Walker Art Center’s permanent collection.
