Blum & Poe Gallery in Culver CIty will feature works by the great Chuck Close, beginning this Saturday, October 29. Featured will be new large-scale oil paintings of artists Kara Walker, Laurie Anderson, and Zhang Huan, works from Close's ongoing self-portrait series, and an intimately scaled portrait of musician Paul Simon. 

Close's remarkable paintings often manage to provide both photo-realism (when seen from a distance) and great, improvisational bursts of color (when seen close-up).