ELIZABETH PEYTON (b. 1965, CT)
'Julian (Casablancas)', 2004/2009

Artist's Walker Art Center Live Forever Exhibition Poster

Exhibition poster published and printed on the occasion of the artist's travelling 2008-2009 mid-career retrospective, Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton. The print features the artist's 'Julian', 2004, a beautiful painting of Julian Casablancas, lead vocalist and primary songwriter of the rock band the Strokes. High quality matte finish poster on heavy weight paper. Dimensions: 20" x 16" sheet, 14-1/2" x 11-1/2" image. Condition: Good (some wear, light creasing commensurate with age and display). Shipped UNFRAMED.

American artist Elizabeth Peyton has been credited with breathing new life into the ancient art of portraiture. Her highly stylized, idealized oil paintings, drawings, and watercolors are driven by the emotional, adoring eye of an unrequited lover. Willowy, melancholy young men and women contemporary pop stars, royalty, artists, and friends are the magnetic subjects of her devotion. Caught as if in a state of ambiguous absorption and frozen at the height of their youth, they embody a new kind of portraiture that confirms and updates the immortalizing aura of the traditional genre.

Peyton's melding of influences and obsessions ranges widely: from fandom and fashion illustration to academic anatomical studies; from David Hockney and Andy Warhol to a range of Mannerist and Old Master classics; from innocence to the world of bohemia, equally crediting photography and life drawing as its driving forces. Her enamored yet refreshingly informal light wash technique underscores her uniquely delicate, informed hybrid of high and low culture, a statement executed with infectious, seemingly effortless fluidity.

Elizabeth Peyton is an American painter who rose to popularity in the mid 1990s. She is 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 overtone. The artist has cited influence by David Hockney.

Her celebrity subjects have included Noel and Liam Gallagher of the rock band Oasis, Julian Casablancas of The Strokes, Jarvis Cocker of Pulp, Chloë Sevigny, Prince William and Prince 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.

SELECT RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2024
'Elizabeth Peyton: Daystar Hakuro', David Zwirner Gallery (Ryosokuin Temple), Kyoto, Japan (9/7 - 9/24)
2023
'Elizabeth Peyton: Shoplifters from Venus', Kunst Museum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
'Elizabeth Peyton: Angel', David Zwirner Gallery, London, UK
2022
'Elizabeth Peyton: Transformer', Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
2021
'Close-Up' (group exhibition), Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland
2020
'Elizabeth Peyton: Lara: New Work', Gladstone 64, New York, NY
'Elizabeth Peyton: Practice', Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing, China
2019
'Elizabeth Peyton: Aire and Angels', National Portrait Gallery (NPG), London, UK
'Elizabeth Peyton', Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
2018
'Elizabeth Peyton: Eventyr', Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
'Elizabeth Peyton: Universe of the World-Breath', Kling & Bang, Reykjavík, Iceland
2017
'Eternal Idol, Elizabeth Peyton – Camille Claudel', Académie de France a Rome, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy
'Elizabeth Peyton: Still Life', Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
2016
'Elizabeth Peyton: SPEED POWER TIME HEART / NEW PAINTINGS', Gladstone 64, New York, NY
'Elizabeth Peyton: Tristan und Isolde', Gallery Met, Metropolitan Opera, New York, NY
'Elizabeth Peyton: Manon Lescaut', Gallery Met, Arnold & Marie Schwartz Gallery, Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Center, New York, NY
'Elizabeth Peyton', Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
2013
'Elizabeth Peyton: Klara 13 Pictures 2009-2012', Michael Werner, New York, NY
'Elizabeth Peyton', Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, NY
'Elizabeth Peyton: Here She Comes Now', Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany
2012
'Elizabeth Peyton & Jonathan Horowitz: Secret Life', Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
'Elizabeth Peyton', Regan Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2011
'Elizabeth Peyton, Andy Warhol: Icons and Idols', Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York, NY
'Elizabeth Peyton', Gagosian Gallery, Paris, France
'Elizabeth Peyton: Wagner', Gallery Met, Metropolitan Opera, New York, NY
'Elizabeth Peyton: Ghost, Works on Paper', Opelvillen, Rüsselsheim, Germany
'Elizabeth Peyton: Ghost, Works on Paper', Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO

2010
'At Home/Not At Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg' (group exhibition), Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS), Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
'Kurt' (group exhibition), Seattle Art Museum (SAM), Seattle, WA
'Size DOES Matter' (group exhibition), FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY

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