Summer Wheat

Paintings

Onlooker, 2011. Oil on canvas, 18 x 24".

Scratchpad Version Two, 2011. Oil on canvas, 36 x48"

Peasanthood, 2010. Acrylic and oil on canvas, 72 x 60".

Preacher, 2010. Acrylic and oil on canvas, 96 x 72".

Scratchpad, 2010. Acrylic and oil on canvas, 72 x 60".

Skull, 2010. Acrylic and oil on canvas, 72 x 96".

Alex Murphy, 2010. Acrylic and oil on canvas, 16 x 20".

Blood Thirsty Phoebe, 2010. Acrylic andoil on canvas, 16 x 20".

Bone Breaker, 2010. Acrylic and oil on canvas, 16 x 20".

Erlinda the Relic, 2010. Acrylic and oil on canvas, 16 x 20"

Forever Calvin, 2010. Acrylic and oil on canvas, 16 x 20".

Human Popsicle, 2010. Acrylic and oil on canvas, 16 x 20".

Meat Puppet, 2010. Acrylic and oil on canvas, 16 x 20".

Missing Mandible Melvin, 2010. Acrylic and oil on canvas, 16 x 20".

Moldy Brain Eater, 2010. Acrylic and oil on canvas, 16 x 20".

Moss Blanket, 2010. Acrylic and oil on canvas, 16 x 20".

Ravenous Eye-Sucker, 2010. Acrylic and oil on canvas, 16 x 20".

Ritta Mittens, 2010. Acrylic and oil on canvas, 16 x 20".

Rotten Robbie, 2010. Acrylic and oil on canvas, 16 x 20".

Rotting Limb Dangler, 2010. Acrylic and oil on canvas, 16 x 20".

Shambling Skullcracker, 2010. Acrylic and oil on canvas, 16 x 20".

Stormcrow, 2010. Acrylic and oil on canvas, 16 x 20".

Sulphur Cedric, 2010. Acrylic and oil on canvas, 16 x 20".

Criss Cross, 2009. Oil on canvas, 72 x 96".

Emptiness, 2009. Oil on canvas, 60 x 72".

Problemed, 2010. Oil and acrylic on canvas, 8 x 10".

Squatter, 2009. Oil on canvas, 16 x 20".

White Potato Eaters, 2009. Oil on canvas, 60 x 53".

Drawings

Daydreamer, 2011. Charcoal and collage on paper, 11 x 17".

Ghost, 2011. Charcoal and collage on paper, 11 x 17".

Pinky, 2011. Ink on paper, 8.5 x 11".

Friendly, 2008. Ink on paper, 8.5 x 11".

Mona, 2008. Ink and collage on paper, 8.5 x 11".

My Soul is a Wildbeest, 2009. Ink on paper, 36 x 24".

About Summer Wheat

When asked to describe her own pieces, Summer Wheat says they are “sensual, disturbing, ugly but beautiful,” and have a “skidrow messiness with refined elegance.” Critics have agreed with this characterization of Wheat’s work, which includes sculptural installation, drawing, and most notably painting. Wheat—who cites Sue Williams, Caroll Dunham, and Willem de Kooning as her favorite artists—makes figural depictions of anonymous individuals, using a selection of vividly clashing colors and thick impasto. She says that she looks for innovative ways to apply the paint to canvas, and has used syringes, mops, and brooms. Wheat has employed her garish and grotesque aesthetic to make social critique, as in the suite of works presented in her solo exhibition “Hi-Lo” (2012), which parodied members of both the wealthy and destitute classes. (in Artsy Net)


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