Elizabeth Peyton: Angel
Text by Lucas Zwirner
Forthcoming October 2024
Angel, Peyton’s debut monograph from David Zwirner Books, explores the artist’s extraordinary ability to identify with her subject matter, from Ang in the Mountains and Mani Rimdu to the subjects of Elvis Angel (Elvis' Eyes) and Titanic (Jack & Rose). These are paintings that dwell in the permeability of light and space, reveling in what Petyon calls “painting and art as a space to capture energy that can take you someplace else.”
Published on the occasion of her exhibition Angel at David Zwirner, London, in 2023, this volume includes full-color plates of eighteen new works, Peyton’s own photographs connected by “the feeling of love, faith, and nature moving through all of them,” and a text by Lucas Zwirner.
Publisher: David Zwirner Books
Artists: Elizabeth Peyton
Contributors: Lucas Zwirner
Designer: Jules Estèves
Printer: VeronaLibri, Verona
Publication Date: 2024
Binding: Hardcover
Dimensions: 9 × 11.75 in | 23 × 30 cm
Pages: 92
Reproductions: 31 illustrations
ISBN: 9781644231340
Retail: $70 | $90 CAN | £55
Status: Not Yet Published
Elizabeth Peyton
Elizabeth Peyton (b. 1965) attended the School of Visual Arts in New York from 1984 to 1987. The artist had her first solo exhibition in 1987 at Althea Viafora Gallery in New York. In 2008, the New Museum, New York, organized the mid-career retrospective Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton. In 2019, the National Portrait Gallery, London, presented Elizabeth Peyton: Aire and Angels, in which the artist’s paintings were presented alongside historical works of portraiture from the museum’s permanent collection. The UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, presented the solo exhibition Elizabeth Peyton: Practice in 2020.
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Lucas Zwirner
Lucas Zwirner is Senior Director, Sales, and Vice President, Business Development, at David Zwirner. In addition to establishing the ekphrasis series and spearheading the award-winning podcast Dialogues, Zwirner also helps lead select digital initiatives, including Platform, a standalone company founded in 2021. He is also a writer and translator, whose work has appeared in The Drift, The Paris Review, and An Elias Canetti Reader, edited by Joshua Cohen and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He is a graduate of Yale University, where he studied comparative literature and philosophy.