Photos: Chuck Close at Guild Hall

Chuck Close and author Regina Weinreich with Close's
Self Portrait (Yellow Raincoat), a 2013 tapestry published by
Magnolia Editions; photo c/o Huffington Post
Regina Weinreich of the Huffington Post and Amanda Gordon of Bloomberg News attended a special preview of Chuck Close's current show at Guild Hall in East Hampton on Friday night.

Lou Reed with Chuck Close's 2012 tapestry Lou, published by
Magnolia Editions; photo by Amanda Gordon/Bloomberg
The exhibition was also attended by friends including Lou Reed, Robert Storr, Eric Fischl, April Gornik, Alec Baldwin, and Sienna Shields. Weinreich recalls that:

Sienna, one of Chuck Close's recent subjects, her head larger than life on Hahnemuhle rag paper, told me Chuck likes to tell the story of James Turrell spinning him around in his chair to get the full effect of his neon light art in the reconfigured Guggenheim Museum's rotunda.

Chuck Close - Sienna (3/4 View), 2012
archival watercolor pigment print on Hahnemuhle rag paper
75 x 60 in. Edition of 5
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Reed and Close with Close's 2012 tapestry Lou, published by
Magnolia Editions; photo by Amanda Gordon/Bloomberg
More art by Chuck Close from Magnolia Editions