Elizabeth Peyton

This event has now finished Until Sun Sep 20 Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High St, London, E1 7QX Full details & map

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'Jarvis and Liam Smoking', 1997 'Jarvis and Liam Smoking', 1997 - © Elizabeth Peyton

Time Out says

American painter Elizabeth Peyton captures historical and pop-culture moments through her measured and characterful portraits of artists, celebrities and acquaintances. Intimate in scale and tightly cropped, Peyton adapts her charged but seemingly private encounters with Prince Harry or Kurt Cobain from news photos, confusing their relationship to pictures of her artist friends, painted at ease and direct from life. Her first major retrospective, 'Live Forever', includes portraits of British artists David Hockney and Jake Chapman as well as Angus Fairhurst, who committed suicide last year. (OW)

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Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High St, London, E1 7QX

Transport Aldgate East 

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020 7522 7888

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Times Tue-Sun 11am-6pm; Thur until 9pm

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Timeout didn't tell you it's free. But you can enter this gallery for free!

Posted by Jin on Aug 18 2009 2:19pm

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