Articles of ‘Summer Wheat’

Fridman Gallery - New York
By Owen Duffy
Summer Wheat continually experiments with what painting can do, what it can become, and the narratives that have constructed its grand tradition. For her most recent endeavor at Fridman Gallery, “Walk-in Pantry,” Wheat created what amounts to art historical parafiction-with, as art historian Carrie Lambert-Beatty would say, [...]

By Stephen Knudsen
Through analysis of Summer Wheat‘s painting and installations I will argue for the relevance of a refreshed figural expressionism that has both postmodern intertextuality and genuine selfhood. But let’s unpack some baggage first.
There’s been a black cloud over figural expressionist painters ever since Expressionism’s last heyday in the 1980s. [...]