Lumin Wakoa

 

Photo by Brad Ogbonna

Lumin Wakoa paints from memory, bringing the past to life through multiple revisions of painting, sanding, scraping, removal, and re-painting.

Often appearing as abstract landscapes, Wakoa builds her paintings up in repeated overlapping layers of earth, often contrasting colors. They are often split into multiple registers—halves or quarters, which create a disorienting effect, or the feeling of multiple narrative happening simultaneously, much like the ways memories and dreams relive themselves in the present moment. Wakoa leaves her paintings purposefully open-ended, and are a mix of intention and invention, fact and fiction.

Queens, NY
Born 1981, Tallahassee, FL
2010 MFA Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2005 BFA University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

www.luminwakoa.com

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