to “Botticelli as a millennial” and she recently became exclusively represented by the powerhouse Gagosian gallery, whose 77-year-old founder, Larry Gagosian, Weyant is now dating.Article content
The romance and sizeable age gap has been the subject of some “snarky and jaded” remarks, Weyant’s painting professor at the Rhode Island School of Design told the“She’s intelligent and has this Midwestern reserve, and she doesn’t speak all the art lingo,” Gagosian told theRetired repairman filled his B.C. house with near perfect replicas of masterpieces he paints himself
The profile detailed Weyant’s split with a former agent who bought “Falling Woman” from her for US$15,000 one year ago. Today, the waiting list for Weyant’s work is several hundred names deep and she’s now preparing for a solo show for Gagosian in New York this fall.Article content The daughter of lawyers, Weyant has described in interviews drawing inspiration from French painters for composition and Dutch masters for colour palettes, as well as Eloise children’s books, Madeline dolls,idyllic in a lot of ways
,” and her personality as outwardly a little bubbly. She went to a conservative school outside of Calgary, where the kids wore not-so-lovely olive-green uniforms . She’s also fascinated by the “low-stakes trauma” of the tween and adolescent years. In “Welcome to the Dollhouse,” the dollhouse modelled after one she owned as a child, one doll has escaped through a window by rope; another room shows two skinny legs sticking out from under a bed. Another doll sits in an overflowing bathtub.
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