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Burning in the Eyes of the Maker: Celeste Dupuy-Spencer

English Edition ｜ Hardcover ｜ 2026 ｜ 208 Pages ｜ 28 × 21 cm

Publisher　　　　 The Monacelli Press
Author　　　　　 Celeste Dupuy-Spencer (Artist), Nina MacLaughlin (Contributor)
ISBN　　　　　　 9781580937269

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【Book Introduction】

In Celeste Dupuy-Spencer’s paintings, America is never presented as a single, unified image. Instead, it emerges as a complex landscape shaped by overlapping layers of family memory, political conviction, religious belief, identity, and everyday life. Figures gather in living rooms, bars, churches, and private interiors, physically close yet each absorbed in emotions that remain difficult to articulate. Beneath these seemingly ordinary moments lies a persistent sense of unease, conflict, and imminent change.

Burning in the Eyes of the Maker is the first full-length monograph devoted to Dupuy-Spencer’s work. It brings together 63 paintings created during the final decade of her life, including a number of new and previously unpublished works. Through her accomplished technique, weighty brushwork, and tension-filled compositions, she portrays the disorder, division, and contradictions of contemporary American society, while also capturing the intimacy, vulnerability, and emotional connections that continue to exist within it.

Dupuy-Spencer’s practice carries forward the classical figurative tradition’s engagement with people, space, and narrative, while responding directly to the political and cultural conditions of the present. Rather than offering clear answers, she allows conflicting beliefs, emotions, and histories to coexist within the same image. Family gatherings, religious rituals, public events, and private memories overlap, making each painting feel like an unfinished story and a renewed examination of American mythology and its fractures.

The book features writing by author Nina MacLaughlin, who takes the paintings as a starting point for entering the inner lives of their figures, the histories embedded in the spaces they inhabit, and the artist’s personal experiences and creative spirit. Poetic, novelistic, and critically incisive, these texts are more than simple commentaries on the works. They form a parallel narrative that allows image and literature to extend and deepen one another across the pages.

Through an extensive selection of full-page reproductions and close-up details, the book reveals the expressions, spatial textures, and layered brushwork that define Dupuy-Spencer’s paintings. It is both an important record of the artist’s practice and a literary meditation on contemporary America, collective memory, and personal belief, preserving her profound and uncompromising vision of the world in which we live.

【Book Details】

Author: Celeste Dupuy-Spencer (Artist), Nina MacLaughlin (Contributor)

Publisher: The Monacelli Press

Publication Year: 2026

Dimensions: 28 × 21 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Pages: 208