Elizabeth Peyton

Elizabeth Peyton is a New York based painter who paints mostly portraits, many of them friends, fellow artists, musicians and celebrities.

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Here is an audio interview with her on the occassion of her 2009 exhibition at the New Museum in New York.: http://www.newmuseum.org/elizabethpeyton/. It’s pretty short but provides an interesting point of view of her work where she discusses it in terms of positivity rather than irony, and in relation to art and life. Here is a New York Times review of the same show:http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/arts/design/10peyt.html

Here are more images of her work: http://gavinbrown.biz/home/artists/elizabeth-peyton.html