GHOST - ELIZABETH PEYTON - KEMPER ART MUSEUM - JANUARY 28, 2011

Elizabeth Peyton - Rhinemaidens (Norms) 1876, 2010

Ghost: Elizabeth Peyton will be presented concurrently at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum and the Opelvillen in Rüsselsheim, Germany. The exhibition is curated by Sabine Eckmann, William T. Kemper Director and Chief Curator, and Beate Kemfert, curator at the Opelvillen, and will be on view from January 28 through April 18, 2011.

American contemporary artist Elizabeth Peyton is celebrated as one of the most important painters of her generation; during the last two decades she has also created numerous monotypes, lithographs, etchings, and woodcuts. Ghost: Elizabeth Peyton will be the first in-depth exploration of the artist as a critical printmaker. Her works on paper embrace beauty and visual pleasure, and take as their subjects artists such as Andy Warhol, David Hockney, and Robert Mapplethorpe, as well as many of her own artist friends; cultural and historical figures, ranging from rapper Eminem to William Shakespeare; and, more recently, still lifes.