RealClearLife Wins Gold Telly Award for Video of Legendary Artist Chuck Close

DeCubellis Films produced the story with RealClearLife to create the award-winning feature.

May 23, 2018 11:18 am
Artist Chuck Close attends Whitney Biennial 2012 opening party at The Whitney Museum of American Art on February 28, 2012 in New York City.  (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)
Artist Chuck Close attends Whitney Biennial 2012 opening party at The Whitney Museum of American Art on February 28, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)
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RealClearLife landed the top spot in the Online General Culture category in the 2018 Telly Awards Wednesday, winning a Gold Telly Award — alongside Oprah Winfrey — for a feature piece on legendary artist Chuck Close. Produced in conjunction with DeCubellis Films, the video follows Close visiting “his” station, which boasts twelve large portraits he produced for the 86th Street stop of the Second Avenue subway.

“I wanted the mosaics to reflect the ridership,” Close told RealClearLife. “So I found artist friends of mine who fit those categories.”

Watch the award-winning video below.

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