"I read the Melody Maker like Marcel Proust," declares Elizabeth Peyton (b. 1965, Danbury, Connecticut, USA; lives and works between New York and Berlin). She rose to fame in the mid-1990s with stylized and idealized portraits of friends, pop icons, and members of European royal families. These androgynous figures, imbued with sexual ambivalence, materialize in delicate small-format oil paintings on canvas, watercolors, pencil drawings, or etchings.
