THAT IS until now. Since 1994, Peyton has been extensively taking photos of people around her, mostly other artists. Her first photographic exhibition, at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, is introducing 50 of these portraits.
The Museum director, Richard Klein, said they are ‘unique, due to the way that they are in fact acts of devotion based in a Platonic eros: a fundamental creative impulse with an intensely sensual character.’
Ridgefield, Connecticut
Portrait of an Artist
22 June – 16 November 2008
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
www.aldrichart.org
(c) Elizabeth Peyton, Adi, 2004, Courtesy of the artist and Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York
