Different Artist

1- http://painternyc.blogspot.com/
Elizabeth Payton

2- Elizabeth Payton, Beautiful people. Art in America, Feb, 2009, Vol. 97 Issue 2, p98-106 Subjects: PORTRAIT painting, American; WOMEN artists; EXHIBITIONS; ART, Modern; PEYTON, Elizabeth; DUMAS, Marlene; OPIE, Catherine Database: Academic Search Premier

Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton The exhibition is organized by Laura Hoptman, Kraus Family Senior Curator at the New Museum.

http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/400/live_forever_elizabeth_peyton
Elizabeth Peyton, talks with David Shapiro. http://www.theblowup.com/archived/elizabethpeyton/page1.html

Elizabeth Payton, Catherine M. Grant
From Grove Art Online, © 2009 Oxford University Press. http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=8042#top

3- Criticism- In Peyton’s case

The aspect most criticized in Peyton’s work is her inclination to paint famous people and her use of photography. They focus, as well, on her process of using photographs which she translates into delicate and beautiful paintings. Interestingly, she is the subject of analysis - as a woman, her work is almost exclusively based on male subjects and its political meaning as a female artist.
These various criticisms cover issues like the subject matter of the artist, which are portraits of family, friends and famous people. Some of these criticisms consider that she is influenced by Andy Warhol, since she uses “pop colors” and is drawn to create portraits of the famous. She uses photographs of famous people, or according to her, people that she cares about. In Elizabeth Payton’s, Beautiful People, Nadia Tscherny refers to John Giorno, who writes that like Warhol, her subjects are well-known, but unlike Warhol, her gaze is unpossessive and as such, undermines the paradigm of the male gaze. According to this critic, Peyton rejects the idea of the male artist’s controlling gaze - she chooses male subjects who already objectify themselves, something that is historically a female trait.

Other critics also comment about Peyton’s color sense and her “razor sharp graphic sense”. They discuss her emphasis on the androgen and beauty of the male form and her consistent use of celebrity as the subject matter.

4-This is a very interesting question and I’m happy to think about it. The criticism of Peyton applies to my work in the way that in my case I use photographs from fashion magazines to resolve my compositions. Like Peyton, I am trying to change the female objectification and create a different way to see the female form. Peyton’s process is close to mine, and she uses thin coats of paint, like me.

5-If I were criticized for my use of photographs, I use them as because these fashion models represent the hyper-objectified, sexualized female form. And, my objective is to give these sexual positions (and objectifications) a different context - instead of erotic positions, the figures are urinating or doing something completely different.