Reeve Foundation Honors Chuck Close

The Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation is honoring artist Chuck Close with its Christopher Reeve Spirit of Courage Award. Close will receive the award tonight at the foundation’s gala at the Marriott Marquis in New York City. A Yale MFA graduate whose work has been the subject of more than 100 exhibitions in over 20 countries, Close has been paralyzed from the neck down since 1988, when he suffered a collapsed spinal artery. From a young age, he coped with dyslexia and prosopagnosia, the inability to recognize faces—the primary subject matter of his extraordinary giant paintings.