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Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present Anything Can Happen, a solo exhibition by Brooklyn-based artist Summer Wheat. This is the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery.
The paintings in Anything Can Happen continue the artist’s exploration of gendered archetypes found in history, relationships to labor, and the monumentalizing of the quotidian. Expanding upon these interests, this body of work considers how the destabilization of our present moment can inspire a more wondrous experience of the everyday.
Impacted by how the fabric of society has become unmoored over the past year, Wheat’s new body of work renders our moment of absurdity with equal parts anxiety, optimism and play. In this wavering space where definitions of up and down blur, so do others: sustenance, food, care, and the body all enter a new realm of questioning what is possible. Through exploring this newfound capacity to rethink our day-to-day rules and structures, Anything Can Happen imagines a greater sense of lucidity, wonder, and possibility in an all-too-often dark world.
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SUMMER WHEAT
Mothers, 2020 Acrylic on aluminum mesh
68 x 141 inches -
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SUMMER WHEAT
Internal Medicine, 2020 Acrylic on aluminum mesh
136 x 94 inches -
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About the Artist
Summer Wheat (b. 1977, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) received a BA from the University of Central Oklahoma and an MFA from Savannah College of Art and Design. Recent solo exhibitions include the Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC (2020); Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City (2020); KMAC Museum, Louisville (2019); Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles (2018); Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle (2017); and Oklahoma Contemporary, Oklahoma City (2016). Wheat received the 2016 New York NADA Artadia Award and the 2019 Northern Trust Purchase Prize at EXPO Chicago.
The artist’s work is in the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, Texas; de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA; Peréz Art Museum Miami; The Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington, Seattle; The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC and the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky.
Summer Wheat: Anything Can Happen
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