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NOW REPRESENTING LUMIN WAKOA

Harper’s is delighted to announce the representation of New York-based artist Lumin Wakoa. Wakoa's debut presentation with the gallery, Alive, took place in November 2022 at Harper's Apartment. Her work is currently featured in Ripe, which opened this Wednesday, February 15, at Harper's Los Angeles; a forthcoming solo exhibition will take place at Taymour Grahne Projects, London, later this month.

A vivid testament to the power of color and brushwork, Wakoa’s practice explores the thresholds of perception and instinct. With a keen eye for the subtleties of nature, Wakoa often works en plein air, capturing the essence of the world around her in fluid, gestural strokes. By rejecting the impulse to categorize or label, Wakoa creates powerful, impressionistic compositions that invite us to contemplate the underlying forces of time, memory, and desire. Her paintings are not just depictions of the world, but open-ended invitations to immerse ourselves in a universe of sensations, where intuition reigns supreme.

Lumin Wakoa, Bittersweet, 2023, oil on linen, 60 x 50 inches

Lumin Wakoa (b. 1981, Ashland City, TN) received a BFA from the University of Florida in 2005, and an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 2010. Her work has been the subject of solo and two-person presentations at Harper’s Apartment, New York (2022); Abattoir Gallery, Cleveland (2022); Deanna Evans Projects, Brooklyn (2021 and 2018); George Gallery, Brooklyn (2019); Present Company, Brooklyn (2017); and Providence College, Providence (2013). Most recently, Wakoa has participated in group exhibitions at Harper’s, East Hampton and Los Angeles (2023, 2022, and 2021); Gaa Gallery, Provincetown (2022); Andrea Festa Fine Art, Rome (2022); Hesse Flatow, New York (2021); Abattoir Gallery, Cleveland (2021); and James Fuentes, online (2020). Reviews of her work have appeared in Artnet, Brooklyn Rail, and Vogue, among other publications. Wakoa lives and works in New York City.

Lumin Wakoa: Alive, Harper's Apartment (2022)

Lumin Wakoa: Alive, Harper's Apartment (2022)

Lumin Wakoa, Two Skulls, 2022, oil on linen, 31 x 43 inches

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