GAP Introduces Artist Editions T-shirts

Gap Introduces Artist Editions T-shirts

T-shirt designed by Chuck Close ($28)

T-shirt designed by Glenn Ligon ($28)

Chuck Close (b. 1940) Whitney Biennial: 1969, 1972, 1977, 1979, 1991
Chuck Close is a leading figure in the development of photo-based painting. Close’s work has been the subject of more than 150 solo exhibitions including many major museum retrospectives, including the most recent exhibition, Chuck Close Paintings: 1968 / 2006, at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid in 2007, which traveled to the Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst in Aachen, Germany, and is currently being exhibited at The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Glenn Ligon (b.1960) Whitney Biennial: 1991, 1993
New York artist Glenn Ligon has exhibited his paintings, neon sculptures, and photography-based work internationally for more than a decade. His work currently appears in the group show Archive Fever--Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art, at the International Center for Photography, New York, and Black Is, Black Ain't, at the Renaissance Society, Chicago. He is in the collections of the Tate Modern, London, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.