By the way, the few times we’ve heard or read interviews with Chuck Close, we’ve liked the way he comes across. Here’s a quick one from last month in New York magazine, complete with a why-we-live-in-Portland Hollywood hotshot moment.
On Sunday, we squeezed in a 4 PM visit to the Chuck Close show at the Portland Art Museum. The show is unique in that it is as much about process as it is about the art. We learned more about printing and collage techniques than we thought possible in an hour. (Fingerprint gravure! Japanese woodblock prints with more than a hundred colors!) Color separation, a process we associated with the CMYK world of magazines, took on entirely new meaning. When the guard announced closing time, we realized we’d be back soon. An hour felt kind of like this: