ELIZABETH PEYTON (b. 1965, CT)

Elizabeth Peyton: Ghost, Works on Paper

Out-of-Print Import Monograph of Artist's Prints

by Elizabeth Peyton (Artist), Hilton Als, Sabine Eckmann, Beate Kemfert. Publ. by Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH & Co KG, Ostfildern, Germany, 2011. Hardbound, 168 pp., 91 color illus. Dimensions: 13-1/4" x 10-1/4" x 1". Weight: 4-1/2 lbs. Language: German/English. BRAND NEW / Sealed.

Famed for her painted portraits, Elizabeth Peyton has also created a wide range of prints over the past two decades, including monotypes, lithographs, woodcuts and etchings. Experimenting with different techniques, she uses a variety of diverse paper stocks and handmade papers as well as various colored and monochromatic inks. In comparison to the diminutiveness of her paintings, the relatively large scale of these prints -- in particular of the lithographs and monotypes -- is remarkable.

Her portrayed subjects here include historical figures such as William Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde and his lover Lord Alfred Douglas (Bosie) and Richard Wagner; visual artists such as Frida Kahlo, David Hockney, Andy Warhol and Robert Mapplethorpe; pop stars such as Eminem and Kurt Cobain; as well as her friends.

More recently, Peyton has turned to the genre of the still life to explore and renew its contemporary relevance. This monograph of Peyton's prints is the first in-depth exploration of the artist as a critical printmaker. It includes essays by Sabine Eckmann and Hilton Als, as well as, an interview with the artist conducted by Beate Kemfert. Featuring more than 70 of her prints in color, the catalogue also includes the first comprehensive index of her prints to date.

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.

Peyton's 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:

2026
'Elizabeth Peyton: Mountains in My Heart (the Death of Sarpedon)', David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY (3/19 - 5/2)

2025
'Elizabeth Peyton: La pesanteur et la grâce (Gravity and Grace)', David Zwirner Gallery, Paris, France

2024
'Tha Sun Will Set. Contemporary Abstraction and the Body' (group exhibition), Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) Boston, Boston, MA
'Elizabeth Peyton: Daystar Hakuro', David Zwirner Gallery (Ryosokuin Temple), Kyoto, Japan

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', Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, NY

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

2009
'Undeniably Me: 1309 Faces' (group exhibition), Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
'Elizabeth Peyton', Barbara Gladestone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
'Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton', Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands
'Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton', Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
'Elizabeth Peyton', Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
'Elizabeth Peyton: Reading and Writing', Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Dublin, Ireland
'Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton', Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

2008
'Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton', New Museum, New York, NY
'Elizabeth Peyton: Drawings and Paintings', Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, NY

2007
'Elizabeth Peyton', Regan Projects, Los Angeles, CA
'The Painting of Modern Life' (group exhibition), The Hayward Gallery, London, UK
'Paper Trail: A Decade of Acquisitions' (group exhibition), Walker Art Center (WAC), Minneapolis, MN

2006
'Elizabeth Peyton', Neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany

2005
'Elizabeth Peyton', Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK

2004
'Elizabeth Peyton', Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, NY
'Whitney Bienniel' (group exhibition), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

2003
'Elizabeth Peyton', Neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany
'Elizabeth Peyton', Regan Projects, Los Angeles, CA
'Elizabeth Peyton and Tony Just: New Works on Paper', Orient Historical Society, Orient, NY
'Elizabeth Peyton', Roma Roma Roma, Rome, Italy

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