Chuck Close

For more than forty years, Chuck Close has limited his image-making to frontal, bust-length portraits-including eighty of himself, making his own face his

most frequent subject. Close bases each portrait on a photograph, laying a grid over it and transferring the image, square by square, to another surface. One type

of mark is often used to create an entire rendering. In this, his first self-portrait print, parallel diagonal lines within squares make up the image. The density of

parallel lines within each square determines relative darkness and light.