Elizabeth Peyton- Kate

Elizabeth Peyton is a painter who makes very stylized portraits of friends and celebrities. I saw her Ben Drawing at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, and I think her works have an intensely luminous and jewel-like quality that doesn't really come off in online photos. It's kind of like what would happen if Van Eyck was like "Whatever, bitches, I paint what I want!" and completely loosened up but kept some of the surface quality.

http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/400
Above is a link to a write up of her New Museum show.