Traveled to Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Whitechapel, London; Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, Netherlands
2008-2009
October 8, 2008–January 11, 2009
Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton is the first survey of Elizabeth Peyton’s work in an American institution. The survey includes more than 100 works made over the past fifteen years. Peyton’s oeuvre can be read in chapters, each of which feature portraits of friends, family, personal heroes, and fleeting passions. From her earliest portraits of musicians like Kurt Cobain, Liam Gallagher, and Jarvis Cocker to more recent paintings featuring friends and figures from the worlds of art, fashion, cinema, and politics including Rirkrit Tiravanija, Matthew Barney, and Marc Jacobs, Elizabeth Peyton’s body of work presents a chronicle of America at the end of the last century. A painter of modern life, Peyton’s small, jewel-like portraits are also intensely empathetic, intimate, and even personal. Together, her works capture an artistic zeitgeist that reflects the cultural climate of the late-twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries. Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton premiered at the New Museum and traveled to the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London; and the Bonnefantenmuseum, in Maastricht, The Netherlands. Learn more at New Museum.