Elizabeth Peyton

Elizabeth Peyton (born 1965 in Danbury, Connecticut) is an American painter. She paints portraits only.

Life

Peyton attended in New York City, New York in the years 1981 to 1987, the School of Visual Arts, New York City, New York. In 1991 she married fellow artist Rirkrit Tiravanija by the end of the 1990s they separated and divorced in 2004.

Work

The technique of oil painting dominates as well as the watercolor and drawing. Typical of her oil paintings are colorful, glowing colors and a high gloss glaze.

As a template used Peyton snapshots of friends, pictures from magazines and books, record covers and stills from music videos. Apparently the selection of the prominent models does not follow a clear pattern: In addition to personal acquaintances they gathered in her oeuvre world famous aristocrats, actors, writers and musicians, they usually do not personally know, for example, Kurt Cobain, Jarvis Cocker of Pulp, Noel Gallagher of Oasis, Leonardo di Caprio, David Hockney, Oscar Wilde, Lord Alfred Douglas, Princess Diana, Prince Harry and Frederick II But Peyton's picture choice is not purely by chance: it is crucial for them the life of a person, and how inspiring it had on others.

Some of the works by Elizabeth Peyton were "I, no doubt " seen in the collective exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg in the years 2009 to 2010, together with the works of other artists. The villas Opel in Rüsselsheim 2011 showed prints of the artist under the title Ghost. The Kunsthalle Baden -Baden is from March 9 to June 23, 2013 provided the title of Here She Comes Now thirty oil paintings and works on paper.