Amid soft waves of hair and a dark, indistinct background, a face looms toward the surface of a self-portrait by Romanian artist Diana Cepleanu, arresting for its piercing eyes and a tangle of light and color across one cheek. Similarly, the artist’s seemingly abstract painting ‘Ray’ focuses on a curious manifestation of light, as if a beam was emerging from a natural environment to powerful effect. Three decades of work at Kaufmann Repetto in Tribeca introduces Cepleanu to New York as a painter who pulls the extraordinary from quotidian life. (On view in Tribeca through Oct 24th).
