Elizabeth Peyton
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Elizabeth Peyton (born 1965) is an American painter who rose to popularity in the mid 1990s. She was a contemporary artist best known for stylized and idealized portraits of her close friends, pop celebrities, and European monarchy.
In the mid-80s, she studied fine arts at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
Her work is characterized by elongated, slender figures with androgynous features which at times resemble fashion illustration. Her work is most often executed in oil paint, applied with washy glazes that are sometimes allowed or encouraged to drip. Several other works in color pencil have also found notoriety and recent work has included etchings. The idealization and stylization of known celebrities has led some critics to characterize her work as derivative of or in the tradition of Andy Warhol with a Romantic (see Romanticism) overtone. The artist has cited influence by David Hockney.
Her celebrity subjects have included Noel and Liam Gallagher of the rock band Oasis (band),Julian Casablancas of The Strokes, Jarvis Cocker of Pulp, Chloë Sevigny, Princes William and Harry of The House of Windsor, Abraham Lincoln, Graham Coxon, Keith Richards, John Lennon, Kurt Cobain, eminem, Ludwig II of Bavaria, and members of The Kennedy Family.
Elizabeth Peyton at Barbara Krakow Gallery
Elizabeth Peyton Interview at IndexMagazine
Elizabeth Peyton exhibition at Neugerriemschneider Berlin. Video at Vernissage TV.
