In the NY Times Roberta Smith calls Elizabeth Peyton’s portraits girly. “By fits and starts, this exhibition reveals the complicated fusion of the personal, the painterly and the Conceptual that informs Ms. Peyton�s work. Each image is a point on entwined strands of artistic or emotional growth, memorializing a relationship, […]
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Elizabeth Peyton: Part of the lifestyle
Publisher’s Weekly’s Charles Dee Mitchell takes a look at recent and upcoming lists from publishers and sees several shared approaches toward producing and distributing books for different niches within the already niche market for contemporary art. “How are the major art book publishers addressing this growing market for contemporary art? […]
NY Mag’s fall painting picks
�Giorgio Morandi: 1890�1964,� Metropolitan Museum, New York, NY. Sept. 16�Dec. 14.“When the master of quiet still lifes died, in 1964, he was unfashionable in New York and London yet revered in Italy. Today, Morandi�s pastel paintings of bottles give the illusion of time stilled. The visual equivalent of slow food.” […]
Elizabeth Peyton’s status update
Elizabeth Peyton’s paintings, based on photographs, can be read in chapters, each of which feature portraits of friends, family, personal heroes, and, of course, fleeting passions. In October, The New Museum is presenting Peyton’s first big museum survey, “Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton,” which will feature over 100 pieces made over […]
“Elizabeth Peyton can really paint”
In Time Out New York T.J. Carlin writes that to paint people is to watch them grow old on an infinitesimally small scale of time, and that sitting for an artist makes the subject incredibly vulnerable. “That is the truth of portraiture and the reason why I�ve been disinclined to […]
