Past Exhibitions at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Chuck Close (American, born 1940) Self-Portrait, 2004-05 Oil on canvas, 102 x 86 (259.1 x 218.4 cm.) Private Collection, New York.

Chuck Close working on Self-Portrait, 2004-05. Photograph by Michael Marfione.

Friday, July 21 – Sunday, October 22

Opening Celebration
Friday, July 21, 3 – 10 P.M., with Curator’s Talk at 8 P.M.
Special arrangements for this evening were provided by the Members’ Council of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery.

Chuck Close is one of the most renowned and prolific American painters of the twenty-first century. He continues to develop a distinct body of work, one that pushes representation to its limits and perpetually reinvents portraiture (a genre often under-recognized in contemporary art). This exhibition comprised seventy artworks, exclusively self-portraits (several of which are on view to the public for the first time), and provided a fascinating glimpse into the artist’s self-examination throughout the past forty years.

The exhibition was organized by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Support for the exhibition was provided by the global financial services firm UBS, the Evelyn D. Haas Exhibition Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Margaret and Angus Wurtele.

The presentation of the exhibition in Western New York was made possible by .

Big Self-Portrait, 1967-68. Acrylic on canvas, 107 ½ x 83 ½” (273.1 x 212.1 cm.). Collection Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Art Center Acquisition Fund, 1969. Photograph by Glenn Halvorson.

Self-Portrait/String, 1983. Handmade paper pulp and string. 37 x 27” (94 x 68.6 cm.). Uneditioned, three trial proofs. Printed by Joe Wilfer. Published by Pace Editions, Inc. Courtesy the artist and Pace Editions, Inc., New York.

Self-Portrait, 1987. Oil on canvas. 72 x 60” (182.9 x 152.4 cm.). Private collection. Courtesy PaceWildenstein, New York.

Self-Portrait/Pulp, 2001. Eleven-color handmade paper pulp print. 57½ x 40” (146.1 x 101.6 cm.). Edition of 35. Printed by Dieu Donné Papermill and Pace Editions Ink; Published by Pace Editions, Inc. Courtesy the artist and Pace Editions, Inc., New York.