Elizabeth Peyton, Sea (Kristian) (2016), via Sadie Coles
Presenting a new body of paintings, including both landscapes and portraiture from her travels and experiences, Elizabeth Peyton opens a new body of work at Sadie Coles HQ in London, filling the gallery’s Davies Street location with her uniquely delicate watercolors, pencil drawings and oil compositions. The show is Peyton’s seventh with the gallery in nearly twenty years, and marks a continuation of her recent practice and stylistic diversity. (more…)
Artist Elizabeth Peyton and designer Dries Van Noten recently sat down with the Financial Times’s Style section to talk about their ongoing friendship, their mutual respect for each other’s work, and Peyton’s portraiture of Van Noten. “The faces people make when they are photographed, and the face they have when you draw them are very different. It’s a very special thing to share with someone, because it’s time spent together that is not about eating or the usual social things.” Peyton says. (more…)
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Elizabeth Peyton, Jonas Kaufmann, March 2013, NYC (2013), via Gavin Brown’s Enterprise
Gavin Brown’s west-side gallery is currently playing home to a new set of works by artist Elizabeth Peyton, continuing the artist’s ongoing series of portraiture through a series of works taken from the New York Metropolitan Opera, as well as Peyton’s well-documented self-portraits and depictions of celebrities. (more…)
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Image: Now I am quietly waiting… (Exhibition View), Bortolami Gallery
The long, arresting title of Tom Burr’s first show as a curator for Bortolami Gallery takes its inspiration from the poem “Mayakovsky” by Frank O’Hara. In the poem, the author delves into the nature of one’s own identity, and the relationship to other, separate, identities that surround us in our daily lives. Taking this text as a jumping off point, Tom Burr has assembled a selection of works that are interconnected by his relationships to their creators, be they personal, professional, or merely tangential.
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Image: Sean Daly, Shaun Regen, Kathryn Bigelow, and John Loga via Vogue
Shaun Caley Regen opened her new location in Los Angeles last night at 6750 Santa Monica Boulevard, in a newly developing section of Hollywood, just east of Highland Avenue. The new space was designed by architect Michael Maltzan, creating a museum-like exhibition venue.
Image: Regen Projects’ inaugural exhibition via Regen Projects
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All photos on site for Art Observed by Samuel Sveen.
Karen Kilimnick is showing at the Brant Foundation in Greenwich, Connecticut. The opening event occurred this Sunday with a preview by founder Peter Brant and a list of other art world notables such as Jeffrey Deitch, Gavin Brown, Julian Schnabel and May Anderson, John McEnroe, Dan Colen, Nate Lowman, Hanna Liden, Elias Hanson, Rikrit Tiravanija, and Elizabeth Peyton amongst other collectors and members of the press. Backing up to the expansive Greenwich Polo Grounds, the event mostly took place outdoors, under and around a tented table area where visitors snacked on steak frites and lamb roasted within view.
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Currently on view at Regen Projects is the sixth solo exhibition of works by New York-based painter Elizabeth Peyton. Peyton, who rose to fame in the 1990s for her portraiture of rock stars like David Bowie, Kurt Cobain, and Keith Richards, delivers in her most recent paintings the twin pillars of accessibility and devotion that have come to characterize her practice. (more…)
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The recently opened Paris branch of the Gagosian Gallery presents a collection of recent work by the much loved American contemporary artist Elizabeth Peyton. The small presentation of paintings and drawings represents the artist’s first solo exhibition in Paris.
Peyton’s work, consisting mostly of small “jewel-like” portraits, is surprisingly immediate and fresh although her subjects maintain a considerable distance from the viewer. Her works present both contemporary and historical subjects, some of whom have been rendered from photographs and others from life, often Peyton’s own friends.
Another view of the main lobby, A Scott Campbell “tropical fantasy” (represented by the Miami based OHWOW Gallery) is the top center work
Art Observed was on site at the Soho Beach House Miami during the week of Art Basel Miami Beach for a tour of the 150 work art collection assembled for the private club and hotel. Keeping a close connection with the artistic community has been an important part of the strategy for the Soho house brand, which has multiple locations in England as well as in New York and newly in Los Angeles, Berlin and Miami Beach. This week marked the first Art Basel Miami Beach for the location and it hit the ground running, hosting some important events such as dinners for White Cube and Victoria Miro galleries and a W Magazine event.
A John Baldessari on the left and a Friends With You on the right, in a hallway on the main floor
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“In The Company of Alice” is currently on view at Victoria Miro Gallery. This is a group exhibition of paintings honoring the life and work of Alice Neel. Each of the painters participating in the show drew inspiration from their admiration for Neel’s work. Some of the artists in the show often create portraits–but for others this is a new endeavor, and their very first portraits are being shown in this exhibition. “In the Company of Alice” coincides with a retrospective of Neel’s work at Whitechapel Gallery, opening on July 8th. Studying Alice Neel’s work as a point of departure for modern and contemporary portraiture, “In the Company of Alice” aims to broaden the viewer’s perspective of figuration and portraiture. The exhibition also brings forth the importance of these modes of practice in relation to contemporary art.
Currently on exhibit at Gladstone Gallery in Brussels is an exhibition of new work by Elizabeth Peyton. The show, which reveals a continuation of Peyton’s focus on personal and stylized portraiture, encompasses a group of works on paper and employs a variety of mediums– water colors, colored pencil and pastel pencil. The depicted subjects in Peyton’s new body of work range from historical figures like Napoleon and Cezanne’s “Madea” to portraits of contemporary artists such as Klara Liden and Rirkrit Tiravanija.
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Last night, October 29, marked the inauguration of a new annual art event: Rob Pruitt presented The First Annual Art Awards at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New Yorkin association with the city’s oldest alternative art space, White Columns.
The awards were conceived by artist, Rob Pruitt, as a performance-based artwork; for the occasion he recruited the characters of IndexMagazine’s wry satirical web series, Delusional Downtown Divas. The New York Times have reported that “…the Divas schemed to infiltrate the art establishment by any means possible. In one segment they pitched a tent in the Guggenheim, doing their laundry in the lobby fountain.”
Currently showing at the Wolfsburg is an exhibition titled “15 Years of Collecting – Against the Grain.” The Museum was launched in 1994 along with the immediacy of its mission to build a permanent collection of highly distinguished works by contemporary artists. The year of starting point of the collection, acquired since the launch of the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, is 1968. The museum’s international reputation boasts works of avant-garde, minimalist, late modernist and conceptual artists. In celebration of its 15 anniversary Kunstmuseum is showing key works from its collection curated in an unconventional manner. The exhibit includes works by Bruce Nauman, Elizabeth Peyton, Carl Andre and Damien Hirst among others and closes September 13, 2009.
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Leading art collectors provide works from their collections to a show organized by Claire Distenfeld- a 23 year old curator who came up with the concept of selling works that are “not masterpieces” yet are by contemporary artists with well-established names. The idea was realized quickly, within a few weeks, through Claire’s personal extensive network. Works by artists like Andy Warhol, Takashi Murakami, Elizabeth Peyton, Barnaby Furnas, Jack Goldstein, Ingrid Calame, George Condo, John Wesley, Richard Prince, Mr., Marilyn Minter, Marnie Weber, David Salle, Nobuyoshi Araki, Hope Atherton, and Ryan McGuinness are on show through August, 8.
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September (Ben) (2001) by Elizabeth Peyton, via The Guardian
Now on view at the Whitechapel is “Live Forever” exhibiting Elizabeth Peyton’s portraits of pop culture, celebrities and famed performers. The exhibition is the first European retrospective for the artist including more than 100 works made over the last 15 years. The exhibit includes portraits of British artists such as David Hockney, Jake Chapman and Angus Fairhurst who committed suicide last year as well as images of Michelle Obama.
Terence Koh and Simon De Pury at the 16th Watermill Summer Benefit. Photo by Patrick McMullan
Robert Wilson greeted his guests as they arrived at the 16th Annual Watermill Summer Benefit- an event he choreographs every summer in order to raise funds for the artistic community to which he is the director. The evening included a silent auction, a live auction hosted by Simon de Pury – Chairman of Philips de Pury auction house, over 10 art installations interpreting this years theme “Inferno,” dinner, theater performances of various genres and attendance by many from the worlds of art, fashion and music.
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Manaus, Christophe Schlingensief. Inferno, this year’s theme of the 16th Annual Watermill Summer Benefit. Via Hamptons
The Byrd Hoffman Watermill Foundation’s sixteenth Annual Summer Benefit will take place on July 25th in the Hamptons. Robert Wilson, its Artistic Director, envisages an event that will include various installations, theatrical performances and auctions all framed by this year’s theme- Inferno. An auction in support of artistic programming at the Watermill Center conducted by Simon de Pury, Chairman of Phillips de Pury auction house, will certainly be one of the highlights of the evening.
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The Deste Foundation released this “preview” image days before “Blood of Two,” took place on Hydra Island. Via [The Moment]
Matthew Barney and Elizabeth Peyton collaborated, for the first time, on an unusual exhibition this week. “Blood of Two,” a site-specific instillation, acted as an inauguration of sorts for the Deste Foundation’s move to their new “mysterious yet evocative” location: Slaughterhouse, a project space on the Greek Island of Hydra. Preceding the event was an exclusive dinner for the artists, collectors and curators, hosted by the founder of the foundation, art collector and Greek billionaire Dakis Joannou.
Portrait of Poitr Uklanski (1996), Elizabeth Peyton via NYTimes
Elizabeth Peyton’s midcareer survey presents over 100 works in “Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton” currently at the New Museum. Peyton emerged in the early 1990s along with painters such as John Currin and Lisa Yuskavage and at that time helped define their collective painterly, outsiderish, illustrational, art-smart figurative styles. Her portraits generally portray two types of subjects: one being the people she has personal rapport with and the other being those in her imagination. Portraits of Kurt Cobain, Liam Gallagher from the band Oasis, and Matthew Barney are included, manifested in a suitably thin and somewhat androgynous lens. The survey encapsulates fifteen years of Peyton’s career while the catalogue includes essays from curator Laura Hoptman, Iwona Blazwick, and poet and Warhol icon John Giorno.
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut is featuring the first wide-scale show of Elizabeth Peyton’s photography through November 16. The collection of approximately fifty photographs was taken by the artist between 1994 and 2008. Of note is that , a major survey of her painting career will be on view in October in “Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton” at the New Museum.
