Chuck Close at Work
At the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill
“Chuck Close,” a documentary by Marion Cajori, will be screened Friday, June 19, at 6 p.m., at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, where an exhibition of the artist’s photographs is on view.
The last documentary made by Ms. Cajori, who died in 2006, the film details Mr. Close’s singular process of portraiture. In addition to his recollections of his life and career, the film includes interviews with Elizabeth Murray, Brice Marden, Janet Fish, Dorothea Rockburne, Robert Storr, and Kirk Varnedoe.
In a review in The New York Times, Matt Zoller Seitz praised “Ms. Cajori’s splendid movie, which captures Mr. Close at work via a combination of probing close-ups of paint-daubed canvas and wide shots that situate him within his work space.”