Elizabeth Peyton (b. 1965, Danbury, CT) has been exhibiting her acclaimed inimitable portraits of artists, musicians, historical figures, and friends since the early 1990s. Peyton's ongoing obsession with the flow of people and influences entering and leaving her life suggests them to be the very substance of her practice. Darren (2007-2008) is the portrait of Darren Bader, a New York-based artist, writer, and curator renowned for his elevation of the profane and ridiculous into the realm of high art. In rhythmic brushstrokes, Peyton's signature color palette of subdued neutral tones contours the contemplative profiles of the sitter. This small, intimate painting is exemplary of Peyton's ability to capture not only the intimate and uncanny facets of a personality but also the introspective meditation of the act of portraiture itself.