BACK STORY Chuck Close spent the early part of his career painting faces so realistic they looked like photographs. Using massive canvases and tiny brushes, he recreated every pore, wrinkle, and hair with obsessive precision. But at the height of his career, Close suffered a spinal condition that left him almost entirely paralyzed. Everything changed—but he didn’t stop painting. He adapted. Working from a motorized wheelchair, he strapped a brush to his wrist and began building portraits using a

Next stop, an underground Close encounter. Acclaimed artist Chuck Close gives his first personal, on-camera tour of his 12 subway mosaics on the Upper East Side of Manhattan with Real Clear Life. READ MORE: http://nydn.us/2xRc3sY | New York Daily News