Chuck Close is a renowned American painter, printmaker, and photographer. His 1998 traveling retrospective, organized by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, confirmed his place in the pantheon of major contemporary artists. His paintings, prints, and photographs, represented by PaceWildenstein in New York, are widely exhibited and collected."
Chuck Close is BRILLIANT and creates art unlike anything we have seen. Some of his enormous portraits are done in pencil or paint, and are so realistic, they look as if they are photographs. The amazing part of his story is that he uses a wheelchair and has very minimal use of his body, so he uses he mouth to move the paintbrush or pencil.