12 Artists On the Rise at The Armory Show

Born in Rome to a German mother and a father from Montenegro, Sekulovic worked as a jazz singer in Paris and New York before moving to Madrid. Needing a new creative outlet there, she started painting large, fictional portraits of historical women, like the novelist Daphne du Maurier. Depicted here with watchful eyes, a 1920s bob and short, vigorous brushstrokes that made me think of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, du Maurier stops you in your tracks, daring you to resist. HEINRICH