About

As a child in northern Florida, Wakoa often sat with her father on their front porch. "Let’s see," he would say, initiating a meditative exercise aimed at the world. In this pre-reflexive state, before identifying what we see, everything seems to blend together into a vibrating mass of color and contour. This method of deconstructive observation might have been Wakoa’s first artistic training, influencing her current work's delicate connection to observed nature.

The artist works with linen on panel, applying multiple layers of gesso to the surface before beginning to paint. …