{"id":668,"date":"2011-02-11T00:20:02","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T00:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15bytes12\/2011\/02\/11\/chuck-close-at-salt-lake-art-center\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T00:02:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T07:02:02","slug":"chuck-close-at-salt-lake-art-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/chuck-close-at-salt-lake-art-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Close at Salt Lake Art Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/chuckclose.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-674\" src=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/chuckclose.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/chuckclose.jpg 450w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/chuckclose-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tonight the Salt Lake City Film Center presents a free screening of a documentary on artist Chuck Close at the Salt Lake Art Center.<\/p>\n<p>The screening of <em>Chuck Close<\/em>, a film by Marion Cajori, at 7 pm is part of the Film Center&#8217;s Creativity in Focus film series. Cajori&#8217;s last film (with editing completed by Ken Kobland), <em>Chuck Close<\/em> provides a well rounded portrait of contemporary art&#8217;s most famous portraitist, from his middle-class upbringing, to his studies at Yale and entrance into the New York art world and finally the spinal-column blood clot that has forced him into a wheelchair and which makes it difficult to paint without help from assistants and mechanical aids. The film is filled out with interviews by Close&#8217;s friends, peers and subjects, including Phillip Glass, Brice Marsden and Alex Katz.<\/p>\n<p>The various components are held together by a series of interwoven scenes that follow Close&#8217;s artistic process as he creates a self-portrait over an eighty-two day period &#8212; from the film&#8217;s opening scene, in which the artist chooses his subject from among a number of photographic self-portraits, to close ups of the artist&#8217;s step-by-step process of filling in each cell of the canvas, to the astonishing final product.<\/p>\n<p><em>Chuck Close &#8212; Friday, February 11th, 7pm at the Salt Lake Art Center. A free screening presented by the Salt Lake City Film Center.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight the Salt Lake City Film Center presents a free screening of a documentary on artist Chuck Close at the Salt Lake Art Center. The screening of Chuck Close, a film by Marion Cajori, at 7 pm is part of the Film Center&#8217;s Creativity in Focus film series. 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