Elizabeth Peyton
Elizabeth Peyton (* 1965 in Danbury , Connecticut) is an American painter . She only paints portraits .
Life
Peyton attended the School of Visual Arts , New York City, New York in New York City , New York from 1981 to 1987 . In 1991 she married the artist colleague Rirkrit Tiravanija , from whom she separated in the late 1990s and divorced in 2004. Since 2015 Peyton has been professor of painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy .
Act
She masters the technique of oil painting as well as that of watercolors and drawings . Colorful, glowing colors and a high-gloss glaze are typical of her oil paintings.
Peyton uses snapshots of friends, pictures from magazines and books, record covers and stills from music videos as a template. The selection of prominent models does not seem to follow a clear pattern: In addition to personal acquaintances, she gathers world-famous aristocrats, actors, writers and musicians in her oeuvre , most of whom she does not know personally, such as Kurt Cobain , Jarvis Cocker from Pulp , Noel Gallagher from Oasis , and Leonardo DiCaprio , David Hockney , Oscar Wilde , Lord Alfred Douglas , Princess Diana , Prince Harry and Friedrich II . But Peyton's choice of images is not purely coincidental: What matters to her is a person's path in life and how inspiring it was to others.
Some of Elizabeth Peyton's works were shown in the collective exhibition “ I, Doubtless ” at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg from 2009 to 2010 together with the works of other artists. The Opel villas in Rüsselsheim am Main showed prints by the artist under the title Ghost in 2011 . The Kunsthalle Baden-Baden presented from 9 March to 23 June 2013 under the title Here She Comes Now thirty oil paintings and works on paper.
Peyton's portrait of Angela Merkel appeared in the cover story of Vogue magazine in August 2017 .
literature
- Craig . König, Cologne 1988, ISBN 3-88375-314-9
- Elizabeth Peyton: Exhibition . Museum of Contemporary Art, Basel 1998, ISBN 3-7204-0111-1
- Prince Eagle . PowerHouse Books, New York 2001, ISBN 1-57687-098-7
- Elizabeth Peyton. Deichtorhallen Hamburg, September 28, 2001 to January 13, 2002 . Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 2001. ISBN 3-7757-9099-3
Web links
- Literature by and about Elizabeth Peyton in the catalog of the German National Library
- Forever Friends on eiskellerberg.tv
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Peyton, Elizabeth |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American portrait painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Danbury (Connecticut) |