Gesthimani Seferopoulou

Gesthimani Seferopoulou kept a studio above a bakery in Athens, where the smell of morning bread mixed with turpentine. She painted scenes at night, not because she was a night owl, but because the city’s fluorescent signs and headlights gave her colors she couldn’t mix in daylight. Skip the big retrospectives—find her 1991 painting with the long Greek title, all neon pinks and highway blues, and you’ll see why she belongs here; it’s like driving a dream you can’t quite remember when the sun comes up.