Celeste Dupuy-Spencer is a contemporary American artist whose visceral paintings cull from memories and photographs from recent headlines. With brushwork that slides in an out of detail, Dupuy-Spencer magnifies, exaggerates, and excludes at her discretion, presenting the viewer with a diaristic sense of her life. “The paintings (like the person) are filled with anger, longing, resentment, humor, shame, and a total lack of fear around self-expression,” the artist Em Rooney said of her work. “They are judgmental, proud, and self-reflexive (especially around humiliation). And, they brood over lived experience.” Born in 1979 in New York, NY, she grew up in the Hudson River Valley and went on to attend Bard College where she graduated with a BFA...