abstract:Elizabeth Joy Peyton (born 1965) is an American painter who rose to popularity in the mid-1990s. She is a contemporary artist best known for stylized and idealized portraits of her close friends and boyfriends, pop celebrities, and European monarchy.
The exhibition entitled Wanderlust takes the viewer on a visual tour of the international art world from New York via the works of Cindy Sherman and ElizabethPeyton to Japan via Takashi Murakami to China through the works of Ai Wei Wei and Liu Ye, weaving together different mediums, genres and narratives in the process.