Summer Wheat: Forager

ISBN: 0847873404

Author: Sudul Edwards, Jennifer

Condition: New

The Future (and past) is Female: Summer Wheats whimsical, often tongue-in-cheek tableaux in rich jewel tones punctuated with bright neons, teem with fantastical figures that memorialize tribes of women hunting, collaborating, celebrating, and ultimately replacing millennia of images of male rulers and warriors.Summer Wheats unique formative experiences with art growing up in Oklahoma were shaped by the aesthetic and conceptual drive of Native American art and Indigenous culture. Bridging those early influences with the canon of Western art (from ancient art to medieval tapestries) and popular references such as astrology and comic books, the artists work centers female archetypes in her expansive practice of painting, sculpture, and large-scale installation.For the artists first monograph, curator Jennifer Sudul Edwards discusses the wide range of subjects that inform Wheats work, including the artists interest in alchemy. Curator Anne Ellegood in conversation with the artist discusses Wheats sculptural work, large-scale installations, and first foray into building a freestanding architectural space. Jennifer Krasinski explores Wheats unique approach to painting; her impressive wall works resemble a cross between intricate beadwork and the pixel-like structure of a digital image.