About the artist:
Hank Lumen is a weirdwestern painter based in Santa Fe. His cowboys and cowgirls do not begin as figures at all, but as accumulations of seemingly meaningless tones, shapes, and textures. Like spotting a teddy bear in a formation of clouds, recognizable forms gradually emerge from abstraction.
Lumen describes his process as an intuitive buildup followed by decisive refinement: a dense layering of paint that is then pared back with intention. Through this push and pull—construction and reduction—he coaxes riders, hats, and silhouettes from the surface. The result feels both discovered and declared.
Rich with strata, grit, and restless movement, Lumen’s paintings carry a raw, abrasively honest energy. They resist nostalgia, presenting the cowboy archetype as unstable and alive—formed as much from instinct as from history.
Hank was born in Dallas, TX 1984 and received a BS in Physics from Santa Clara University. Hank has shown in group exhibitions throughout the Southwest and currently works and resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Specs:
This painting is part of a larger series of cowboys and cowgirls rendered in an earthy black-and-white palette. In these neutral works, layers accumulate slowly and without a fixed image in mind until a mustache-like shape or pattern appears; these accidental forms become anchors, guiding the composition as the figure comes into focus.More
- Unframed
- Signed
3:00 PM, Mar 19, 2026.
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