KATHARINA WULFF's paintings depict a haunting reality. Wulff came of age in the 1990s as a leading German painter of her generation, emerging alongside peers such as Kai Althoff, Lukas Duwenhögger, and Jutta Koether to refine an elastic figuration all her own. Day and Night Before My Eyes marks the artist’s fourth solo exhibition at Greene Naftali, featuring new paintings and works on paper that meld absorbing beauty with elements of the grotesque. Observed scenes of children are shadowed by art historical touchstones and memories of her own youth in East Berlin, and a suite of still lifes further trains attention on transient subjects and fleeting states. "My painting is not escapism," the artist has said of her beguiling compositions, which remain firmly grounded in the social. "I look at reality and begin to negotiate with it."