CHUCK CLOSE – Prints, Process and Collaboration at Museum of Contemporary Art

‘CHUCK CLOSE IS MAGICIAN AND MYTHBUSTER ALL IN ONE’

–Washington Post

By Sas Lyon

The monumental portraits of one of America’s best-loved visual artists are coming to Sydney this summer, as part of the Sydney International Art Series. QT Sydney is just around the corner from the Museum, and has partnered up with the exhibition in order to bring you a bespoke Package that includes a minimum of 2 nights in a QT Deluxe room, and 2 tickets to Chuck Close: Prints, Process and Collaboration running from 20th November 2014 til 15th March 2015. Plus, just to spoil your body while your mind is getting a cultural injection, you can choose one of the following to round out your package:

• Dinner for 2 on 1 night in Gowings Bar & Grill OR
• Breakfast daily in Gowings Bar & Grill OR
• spaQ treatments for two

A little about Chuck: 

Chuck Close is an artist noted for his highly inventive techniques used to paint the human face, and is best known for his large-scale, photo-based portrait paintings. He is also an accomplished printmaker and photographer whose work has been the subject of more than 200 solo exhibitions in more than 20 countries.

Close has produced many iconic portraits of artists, celebrities and other well-known public figures including Brad Pitt, Kate Moss, Lou Reed, Roy Lichtenstein and President Obama.

This exhibition comprehensively surveys Close’s long involvement with the varied forms and processes of printmaking. It shows the artist’s range of invention in etching, aquatint, lithography, handmade paper, direct gravure, silkscreen, traditional Japanese woodcut, and reduction linocut, among others and features images ranging from early mezzotints to monumental later works as well as water colour pigment prints and a new series of Jacquard tapestries.

The MCA exhibition Chuck Close: Prints, Process and Collaboration is the largest exhibition of Close’s work ever presented in the southern hemisphere and is exclusive to Sydney.

Chuck Close: Prints, Process and Collaboration is organised in association with the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York.

Make sure to jump on the #CLOSETOCHUCK tag when you visit so MCA can share your pics!

See both Chuck Close: Prints, Process and Collaboration and Pop to popsim this summer and save 20% when you book online in advance with the Sydney International Art Pass.

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