ELIZABETH PEYTON 'Democrats are more...' Exhibit Poster

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ELIZABETH PEYTON (b. 1965, CT) 'Democrats are more beautiful (after Jonathan Horowitz) ', 2001 Artist Exhibiton Poster Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton exhibition poster featuring the artist's ' Democrats are more beautiful (after Jonathan Horowitz) ', 2001. Dimensions: 20" x 16" sheet, 14-1/2" x 12" image. Condition: BRAND NEW / Excellent (never framed or displayed). Buyer pays $7 U.S. shipping via USPS Mail. 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 : 2009 'Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton ', Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht , The Netherlands (10/21/2009 - 3/21/2010) 'Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton ', Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK (7/9 - 9/20) ' Elizabeth Peyton ', Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK ( 4/30 - 5/30 )' Elizabeth Peyton: Reading and Writing ', Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Dublin, Ireland ( 4/1 - 6/21 )' Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton ', Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN ( 2/14 - 6/14 ) 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 2006 ' Elizabeth Peyton ', Neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany 2005 ' Elizabeth Peyton ', Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK 2004 ' Elizabeth Peyton ', Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, 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 PLEASE SEE MY OTHER AUCTIONS BY CLICKING MY Store ICON ABOVE Pay me securely with any major ... read more

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