Close, Chuck (sh) and Hubel, David (Hunter) (sh)

Close, Chuck (sh)

born July 5, 1940, Monroe, Wash., U.S.

U.S. artist.

After early Abstract Expressionist experiments, in his first solo exhibition Close showed a series of enormous black-and-white portraits that he had painstakingly transformed from small photographs to colossal, Photorealist paintings. Throughout his career, he concentrated on portraits
from the neck up
based on photographs he had taken. In addition to self-portraits, the paintings were usually of friends, many of whom were prominent in the Art world. He experimented with a variety of media and techniques, including using fingerprints and colourful tiles that, seen from a distance, combined into an illusionistic whole. In 1988 a spinal blood clot left Close almost completely paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair. A brush-holding device strapped to his wrist and forearm, however, allowed him to continue working.

Hubel, David (Hunter) (sh)

born Feb. 27, 1926, Windsor, Ont., Can.

Canadian-born U.S. neurobiologist.

He studied medicine at McGill University and in 1959 joined the faculty of Harvard Medical School. In 1981 he shared a Nobel Prize with Torsten Wiesel and Roger Sperry for investigations of visual perception, one of their achievements being analysis of the flow of nerve impulses from the retina to the brain's sensory and motor centres.

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