Critical Reviews
“Landscape emerges as a symbolic space through which Wakoa claims the gendered tradition of painting en plein air not as a repertory of forms, but as a pictorial code open to reinvention. Thus affinities with van Gogh’s cypresses in Front Garden at Night, Monet’s Parisian steam clouds in the billowing pistachio green canopy of Trinity Cemetery, or Bonnard’s palette throughout seem less homages to a familiar catalogue of forebears than a hijacking of motifs and discourses that defined late 19th-century plein air painting in order to redirect them toward her own distinctive pictorial goals.”
— on Lumin Wakoa, Brooklyn Rail, November 2021
“Ellen Siebers at Franklin Parrasch,” Brooklyn Rail, September 2024.
“Florencia Escudero at Kristen Lorello and Rachel Uffner,” Brooklyn Rail, June 2024.
“Joy Curtis at Klaus Von Nichtssagend,” Brooklyn Rail, May 2024.
“Loie Hollowell at Pace and The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum,” Brooklyn Rail, April 2024.
“Teruko Yokoi at Marlborough,” Brooklyn Rail, April 2024.
“Amy Butowicz at Peninsula Art Space,” Brooklyn Rail, February 2024.
“Emilie L. Gossiaux at the Queens Museum,” Studio International, January 2024.
“Diana Al-Hadid at Kasmin,” Brooklyn Rail, December 2023 / January 2024.
“Tania Pérez Córdova at SculptureCenter,” Studio International, November 2023.
“Eleanna Anagnos and Alexis Granwell at SUNY Old Westbury,” Studio International, October 2023.
“Light from Water: Heidi Howard & Esteban Cabeza de Baca with Liz Phillips at Wave Hill,” Brooklyn Rail, September 2023.
“Clare Grill at Derek Eller,” Brooklyn Rail, June 2023.
“Courtney Childress at Deanna Evans Projects,” Brooklyn Rail, June 2023.
“Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map at the Whitney Museum of American Art,” Studio International, May 2023.
“Harold Cousins at Michael Rosenfeld,” Brooklyn Rail, March 2023.
“Adebunmi Gbadebo at Claire Oliver,” Brooklyn Rail, February 2023.
“Maureen St. Vincent at Hesse Flatow,” Brooklyn Rail, December 2022 / January 2023.
“Lily Stockman at Charles Moffett,” Brooklyn Rail, December 2022 / January 2023.
“Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces at The Museum of Modern Art,” Studio International, October 2022.
“Astrid Terrazas at PPOW,” Brooklyn Rail, October 2022.
“52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum,” Studio International, June 2022.
“Rose Nestler at Mrs.,” Brooklyn Rail, April 2022.
“Garmenting: Costume as Contemporary Art at the Museum of Arts and Design,” Studio International, April 2022.
“Joan Mitchell at the Baltimore Museum of Art,” Studio International, March 2022.
“Shawanda Corbett at Salon 94,” Brooklyn Rail, February 2022.
“Lumin Wakoa at Deanna Evans Projects,” Brooklyn Rail, November 2021.
“Katelyn Eichwald at Fortnight Institute,” Brooklyn Rail, October 2021.
“Huguette Caland at The Drawing Center,” Brooklyn Rail, September 2021.
“Lynn Hershman Leeson and Ed Atkins at The New Museum,” Studio International, July 2021.
“With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972–1985 at CSS Bard,” Studio International, July 2021.
“Rosemary Mayer at Gordon Robichaux,” Brooklyn Rail, June 2021.
“Michael West at Hollis Taggart,” Studio International, May 2021.
“Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America” at the New Museum, Studio International, March 2021.
“The Symbolists: Les fleurs du mal at Hesse Flatow,” Brooklyn Rail, March 2021.
“Emily Mason: Chelsea Paintings at Miles McEnery,” Brooklyn Rail, February 2021.
“Samara Golden at the Fabric Workshop and Museum,” Brooklyn Rail, December 2020 / January 2021.
“Abstraction in the Black Diaspora at False Flag,” Brooklyn Rail, December 2020 / January 2021.
“Leilah Babirye at Gordon Robichaux,” Brooklyn Rail, November 2020.
“Lily Stockman at Charles Moffett,” Brooklyn Rail, October 2020.
“Aliza Shvarts at A.I.G.,” Brooklyn Rail, July/August 2020.
“Donald Judd: Maker, Baker,” Brooklyn Rail, April 2020.
“Ellen Lesperance at the Baltimore Museum of Art,” Brooklyn Rail, March 2020.
“Deb Sokolow at Western Exhibitions,” Brooklyn Rail, December 2019/January 2020.
“Sanam Khatibi at P.P.O.W.,” Brooklyn Rail, November 2019.
“Loie Hollowell at Pace,” Brooklyn Rail, October 2019.
“Rachel Granofsky at Rachel Uffner,” Art in America, April 2019.
“Betty Tompkins at P.P.O.W.,” Art in America, March 2019.
“Alice Tippit at Nicelle Beauchene,” Art in America, December 2018.
“Angela Heisch at 106 Gallery,” Art in America, October 2018.
“Claire Falkenstein at Michael Rosenfeld,” Art in America, October 2018.
“Justine Hill at Denny Gallery,” Art in America, June/July 2018.
“Ewelina Bochenska at Fortnight Institute,” Art in America, May 2018.
“Terry Adkins at Lévy Gorvy,” Art in America, May 2018.
“Julia Wachtel at Elizabeth Dee,” Art in America, March 2018.
“‘Ferus Gallery: Between the Folds’ at Alden Projects,” Art in America, January 2018.
“Ruth Asawa at David Zwirner,” Art in America, December 2017.
“Amanda Ross-Ho at Mitchell-Innes & Nash,” Art in America, November 2017.
“Veronika Pausova at Simone Subal,” Art in America, October 2017.
“Rosy Keyser at Maccarone,” Art in America, October 2017.
“Carmen Neely at Jane Lombard,” Art in America, June/July 2017.
“Roy Colmer at Lisson,” Art in America, May 2017.
“Duane Linklater at 80WSE,” Art in America, March 2017.
“Loie Hollowell at Feuer/Mesler,” Art in America, February 2017.
“Cecily Brown at The Drawing Center,” Art in America, January 2017.
“Lynda Benglis at Cheim & Read,” Art in America, December 2016.
“‘Hippie Modernism’ at The Walker Art Center,” caa.reviews, November 2016.
“‘Blackness in Abstraction’ at Pace,” Art in America, October 2016.
“John Altoon at LACMA," caa.reviews, February 2015.