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Chuck Close: Prints, Process and Collaboration

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Nearly 90 large-scale prints and working proofs by artist Chuck Close will be on view at the Schack Art Center. The exhibition, titled Chuck Close: Prints, Process, and Collaboration, surveys the artist's groundbreaking innovations in a broad spectrum of printmaking mediums.

Starting with the large-scale mezzotint print Keith (1972), Close's first master print as a professional artist, and ending with recent, monumental watercolor digital prints such as Lorna (2012), the exhibit shows the artist's range of invention in etching, aquatint, lithography, handmade paper, silkscreen, traditional Japanese woodcut, and reduction linocut, among others.

Born in Monroe, Washington in 1940, Close is widely known for creating large-scale portraits in mediums ranging from painting to drawing and photography to printmaking. Always interested in the process required to generate his portraits, Close has consistently turned to printmaking to experiment with visual ideas, resulting in some of his most captivating and accomplished works.

Visitors to the exhibit will have the opportunity to visualize Close's creative and technical processes through the display of progressive proofs, matrices, woodcut blocks, and etching plates that illustrate the steps involved in making a print.

Chuck Close: Prints, Process, and Collaboration at the Schack Art Center is also the first time Close's work has been exhibited in Snohomish County, Washington, where the artist was born and raised. Close attended Everett High School and Everett Community College (formerly Junior College), where he received an associate of arts degree (1960), before transferring to the University of Washington.

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