Celeste Dupuy-Spencer’s art was vivid, almost hallucinatory, sometimes apocalyptic. Though she produced some quiet domestic scenes, she was best known for big paintings that took on contemporary political themes and events: religious fundamentalism, the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol, protests against Confederate monuments.
Ms. Dupuy-Spencer, who died on April 9 at 46, was born in New York. Her career really began to take off when she moved to Los Angeles in 2015. She had well-received solo shows and participated in important group biennials.
In a 2018 interview, a curator of one of those group exhibitions said that Ms. Dupuy-Spencer was on track to become “one of the great painters of her generation.”
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