Exhibition Information

© Tom Powel Imaging (출처= 리안갤러리)

			"She lives in the blurry world where images can come from anywhere and where most of our experience, even with paintings, comes from reproductions, which have somehow desensitized our experience of the physical world. Elizabeth brings us to the experience of a deeper, more intense reality – this very physical world which we have tended to forget. It is in the physical world that we love, that we feel pain, that we interact: writing can somehow be digitalized – typing on a computer, even speaking to an App that then turns your voice into a text – but painting, hardly. Or at least it is embedded within the actuality of the material. When looking at the perfect world of Elizabeth Peyton, we are not looking at photographs: we are looking at a perfect image made from so many brushstrokes over four decades now. All of this is material. All of this is physical. And exists somewhere else too.”

Donatien Grau

 

Elizabeth Peyton’s new body of work includes the concerns of love, intimacy, and time passing with a heightened awareness of the interconnectedness of life.

An inspiration for the show came from the films of Wong Kar-wai – his way of turning one of the most painful things – loss – the loss of love or sometimes impossibility of connection, into beauty – in one way making a place to experience these feelings and soothe them at the same time.

 

Elizabeth Peyton (b. 1965, Danbury, Connecticut) lives and works in New York, where she obtained a BFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York (1987). Peyton has exhibited internationally, with significant solo exhibitions including those at UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2020); National Portrait Gallery, London (2019); The French Academy in Rome, Villa Medici, Rome (2017); Gallery Met, Metropolitan Opera, New York (2016); Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden (2013); Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, USA (2011); New Museum, New York (2008), which toured internationally to Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, and the Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht.

 

Her work is also held in major collections that among others include the Burger Collection, Hong Kong; Carnegie Museum of Art (CMOA), Pittsburgh (PA); Centre National d' Art et de Culture Georges-Pompidou, Paris; Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg; Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston (MA); Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York (NY); New Museum, New York (NY); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), San Francisco (CA); and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (NY).