Lumin Wakoa, Painter Who Let Her Art Teach Her How to See, Dies at 43

Lumin Wakoa, Painter Who Let Her Art Teach Her How to See, Dies at 43

Lumin Wakoa, a rising painter whose art was part of a quest to better learn how to see the world around her, has died at 43. Her death was announced by her gallery, Harper’s, on Monday. Her husband Hendrik Gerrits wrote on Instagram that she had been battling brain cancer. “She could summon wildlife by sheer force of will – to adventure with Lumin meant swimming with wild dolphins, playing with manatees, and spearing gigantic lobsters,” he wro…