Elizabeth Peyton was born in 1965 in Danbury, CT. Peyton got a degree from the School of Visual Arts, in New York in 1987. She is an American painter, most of her work is portraits.
"I felt that you could see a person's time in their face—especially the particular moment when they're about to become what they'll become…They just shine, and everybody around them can feel it" Peyton told Vogue about what drew her to portraiture. (Notable Biographies) Interesting fact: “She was born with only two fingers on her right hand, and so she learned to draw with her left hand” (Notable Biographies).
Her first solo show was at Althea Viafora Gallery, 1987. Peyton was invited to show work at the 2004 Whitney Biennial in New York City. Peyton has showed work in London, New York, Paris, Florence, and more. “Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton” is a show at the New Museum, and will also travel to Minneapolis, London, and the Netherlands. The exhibition is a collection of Peyton’s work. Some of Peyton’s portraits include Kurt Cobain, Liam Gallagher, Jarvis Cocker, Eminem, Matthew Barney, Georgia O’Keefe, Marc Jacobs, and many more family, friends, celebrities, and other people.
“A painter of modern life, Peyton's small, jewel-like portraits are also intensely empathetic, intimate, and even personal. Together, her works capture an artistic zeitgeist that reflects the cultural climate of the late-twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries” (New Museum). Peyton “is among a small group of artists to develop a peculiar hybrid of realism and conceptualism… Like Warhol, Peyton's art is at the service of the culture it captures. A brilliant colorist with a razor-sharp graphic sense, her paintings are enormously seductive in form and content, celebrating the aesthetics of youth, fame, and creative genius” (New Museum)
Peyton’s portraits are painted in a way that look accurately like the person, but not too specifically mapped out. With the grid layout, my drawings look more realistic, but almost flat, like they don’t have any life. It might be her use of color that makes her portraits look more active.
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