{"id":10622,"date":"2024-05-01T10:30:07","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T14:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=10622"},"modified":"2024-05-01T08:55:13","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T12:55:13","slug":"lumin-wakoa-at-harpers-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/01\/lumin-wakoa-at-harpers-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Lumin Wakoa at Harper&#8217;s Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once small-scale and resolutely abstract, New York painter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.luminwakoa.com\">Lumin Wakoa<\/a>\u2019s latest paintings at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harpersgallery.com\/exhibitions\/lumin-wakoa2#tab:slideshow\">Harper\u2019s Gallery<\/a> have grown explosively in size and dynamic allusion to the natural world.\u00a0 Branching forms appear in many works, supporting abundant blossoms or snaking between zones of color that suggest the blinding sun, bright flowers or cool, blue oases. Here, intense yellow and orange flowers dematerialize into a mass of pleasurable tones while the work\u2019s title, \u2018Briefly Brilliant,\u2019 suggests that there is a time limit on this glorious display. (On view in Chelsea through May 5<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 2025px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/5f526913-051e-c57f-9f1c-38c4f0c76b7c.jpg\" width=\"2025\" height=\"2380\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lumin Wakoa, Briefly Brilliant, oil on linen, 82 x 70 inches, 2023.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once small-scale and resolutely abstract, New York painter Lumin Wakoa\u2019s latest paintings at Harper\u2019s Gallery have grown explosively in size and dynamic allusion to the natural world.\u00a0 Branching forms appear in many works, supporting abundant blossoms or snaking between zones of color that suggest the blinding sun, bright flowers or cool, blue oases. Here, intense &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/01\/lumin-wakoa-at-harpers-gallery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lumin Wakoa at Harper&#8217;s Gallery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[117,1679,13,10601,9659,10859,33],"class_list":["post-10622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-hottest-show","tag-chelsea","tag-flowers","tag-gallery","tag-harpers-books","tag-harpers-gallery","tag-lumin-wakoa","tag-painting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-2Lk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10623,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10622\/revisions\/10623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}