He spent painful months in rehabilitation and eventually gained partial use of his arms and legs. He is dependent upon a wheelchair and straps a brush to his hand to paint on a canvas. The canvas is connected to a special device that lowers and raises the canvas and rotates it 360 degrees. Although, at first glance, Chuck Close’s works of art may look as if they were computer generated, they are all created by hand. His paintings take several months to finish, and it is not unusual for one print to take up to two years to complete!ĪBOUT | Fay Jones, Self-Portrait: Braque Boxing Chuck was already a famous artist in 1988 when he became paralyzed from the shoulders down due to a spinal aneurism. © Charles ArnoldiĬhuck Close is one of America’s most famous and respected living artists. He has had a remarkable artistic career spanning more than 30 years as a painter, photographer, and printmaker. Growing up in Tacoma, Washington, he always knew he wanted to be an artist. Chuck has dyslexia, so learning was not easy for him. He invented his own coping and studying mechanisms and graduated from high school, received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Washington, and earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from Yale University. He also suffers from prosopagnosia, commonly called face blindness, which makes it difficult for him to remember faces, but he has a photographic memory for things that are flat. By focusing on portraits of important people in his life, he helps to commit their images to memory by taking three-dimensional faces and making them into two-dimensional works of art.
IMAGE: Charles Arnoldi, Untitled, 2005, acrylic on aluminum, 8” x 7¼”, Gift of Wilfred Davis Fletcher, 75th Anniversary of BAM, Boise Art Museum Permanent Collection. With the principles of design (such as balance, rhythm, emphasis, pattern, contrast, unity, and movement), artists can use the elements of art to create their expressions in a vast number of ways, as demonstrated by the diversity of artwork presented in this exhibition.
While the artworks are organized in themes of Line Shape and Form Space Color and Value and Texture these categories often overlap. Based on the Art Card deck True Colors, this exhibition explores the ways in which artists employ the elements of art and principles of design to convey mood, provoke emotional responses, and communicate with viewers. Outside the Lines is the fourth and final exhibition inspired by Boise Art Museum’s Art Cards, a project designed to encourage engagement with artworks in BAM’s Permanent Collection.
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