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Elizabeth Peyton s work has been acclaimed since the early 1990s,
when she began exhibiting her intimate portraits of artists,
musicians, historical figures, and friends. This new volume,
prepared by the artist in collaboration with designer Brendan
Dugan, founder of Karma bookstore and gallery, presents a
concentrated view of a period bookended by two exhibitions in
Brussels, one in 2009 and the second in 2014, a time of
introspection, and the development of a more personal painterly
language. This phase of Peyton s work is about a new realism and a
considered situating of her interests and passions in relation to
her own working practice. We see her range expand to take in lush
still lifes composed of books, flowers, and fragmentary interiors;
expressive, blood-drenched scenes drawn from Richard Wagner s
operas; and many magnificent and subtle portraits of peers and
mentors, historical or present-day. From David Bowie to celebrated
tenor Jonas Kaufmann; from Delacroix and Giorgione to Peyton s
artist peers such as Matthew Barney and Klara Liden; from Friday
Night Lights star Taylor Kitsch to tattoo artist Scott Campbell, as
well as numerous self-portraits, her work is about narrowing the
distance between the self and the object of fascination. They are
people expressing what it is to be human. Most art that s any good
is trying to do that trying to put a voice to feeling. And in
particular, the feeling of their time, writes Peyton.
Jason Polan is on a mission to draw every person in New York, from
cab drivers to celebrities. He draws people eating at Taco Bell,
admiring paintings at the Museum of Modern Art, and sleeping on the
subway. With a foreword by Kristen Wiig, Every Person in New York,
Volume 1 collects thousands of Polan's energetic drawings in one
chunky book. As full as a phone book and as invigorating as a walk
down a bustling New York street, this is a new kind of love letter
to a beloved city and the people who live there.
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