A New York City based artist, Elizabeth Peyton focuses on portraits of
famous people. She uses media photographs for her source material and
reflects her love of the famous in her painted portraits, which have
glossy surfaces.
She made her name with a series of portraits of
19th century Romantic figures in a 1993 show at the Chelsea Hotel by
Gavin Brown. In 1995, she did a series of adoring portraits of suicide
rocker Kurt Cobain and has also done numerous portraits of David
Hockne (showing 500 of 993 characters). |
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