The Artist Who Painted Jeffrey Epstein s Portrait of Bill Clinton in A Dress Tells Us Why She Made It, and What It Means Petrina Ryan Kleid wants to clear up A few things about the image. What is it like for an artist to go viral overnight, and suddenly find herself part of A political narrative that she has no control over? This is the reality for Petrina Ryan Kleid, whose painting of Bill Clinton incongruously clad in A blue dress suddenly was scrutinized across the internet, https://news.artnet.com/art-world/bill-clinton-blue-dress-painting-jeffrey-epstein-1628437, last week after the Daily Mail, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7353967/Did-Jeffrey-Epstein-portrait-Bill-Clinton-blue-dress-red-heels-NYC-mansion.html, revealed that it had been owned, and prominently displayed, by Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire convicted pedophile who recently died by suicide in New York, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/17/nyregion/epstein-suicide-death.html. Petrina Ryan-Kleid – Parsing Bill Ryan Kleid says that she has been overwhelmed amid the week s frenzy of attention. She spoke to Artnet News over the weekend by email to clarify some misinterpretations circling around the now viral image, which she developed as A student, having recently arrived in the United States from Australia. “I Live A Quiet Life, and I Really Just Had A Naive, Newly Arrived Foreigner s Idea for A Thesis,” she writes of the … Meer lezen over Ben Davis – The Artist Who Painted Jeffrey Epstein s Portrait of Bill Clinton in A Dress Tells Us Why She Made It, and What It Means