{"id":12632,"date":"2025-09-22T11:00:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T15:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=12632"},"modified":"2025-09-16T11:35:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T15:35:43","slug":"diana-cepleanu-now-at-kaufmann-repetto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/22\/diana-cepleanu-now-at-kaufmann-repetto\/","title":{"rendered":"Diana Cepleanu, &#8216;Now&#8217; at Kaufmann Repetto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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.\u00a0 Similarly, the artist\u2019s seemingly abstract painting \u2018Ray\u2019 focuses on a curious manifestation of light, as if a beam was emerging from a natural environment to powerful effect.\u00a0 Three decades of work at <a href=\"https:\/\/kaufmannrepetto.com\/exhibition\/diana-cepleanu-now\/\">Kaufmann Repetto<\/a> in Tribeca introduces Cepleanu to New York as a painter who pulls the extraordinary from quotidian life. (On view in Tribeca through Oct 24<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 3672px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/4b02c491-eea9-eb52-55db-e3e0d14338f7.jpg\" alt=\"A face looming forward with accents of light and color on the left side.\" width=\"3672\" height=\"3663\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diana Cepleanu, Self-portrait, oil on canvas, 15 x 15 inches, 2023.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 4294px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/821717e4-ee72-7262-4094-65d753444a67.jpg\" alt=\"An abstract depiction of a ray of light coming from a curving white form below.\" width=\"4294\" height=\"4718\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diana Cepleanu, Ray, oil on canvas, 21.7 x 19.8 inches, 2021.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.\u00a0 Similarly, the artist\u2019s seemingly abstract painting \u2018Ray\u2019 focuses on a curious manifestation of light, as if &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/22\/diana-cepleanu-now-at-kaufmann-repetto\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Diana Cepleanu, &#8216;Now&#8217; at Kaufmann Repetto&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[11481,13,7559,2410,856,33,8082,9186,2039,7567],"class_list":["post-12632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-hottest-show","tag-diana-cepleanu","tag-gallery","tag-kaufmann-repetto","tag-light","tag-painter","tag-painting","tag-ray","tag-romania","tag-self-portrait","tag-tribeca"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-3hK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12634,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12632\/revisions\/12634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}