

Vitamin with Blue and Black
2020
Vitamin with Blue and Black announces itself through process as much as image. Working in her signature technique, Summer Wheat pushes acrylic paint through aluminum mesh, allowing the material's open grid to determine how pigment accumulates, bleeds, and holds form across the surface. The result is a composition that feels simultaneously gestural and architectural, where deep blacks ground a field animated by charged blues and the painting's implied luminosity. At 172.7 by 119.4 centimeters, the work commands physical presence, inviting close inspection of the textured passages where paint gathers at each intersection of mesh like accumulated sediment, and a broader reading of the whole, which resolves into something unexpectedly painterly and alive. Wheat has built a substantial critical reputation through this method, which she developed to challenge conventional distinctions between painting and sculpture, surface and support. The aluminum mesh functions not as a passive ground but as an active collaborator, introducing a mechanical rhythm beneath the organic marks that gives her work its distinctive tension. Vitamin with Blue and Black, dated 2020, reflects the maturity of this practice, displaying a confidence in restraint that allows the interplay of two colors to sustain genuine visual complexity without reliance on narrative or figuration. The work is accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity and ships from Los Angeles, California. It is offered unframed, presenting the collector with an opportunity to consider framing that suits a particular interior or to display the work in a way that foregrounds its material nature. This is a compelling acquisition for those building a collection around rigorous contemporary painting practice.
- Medium
- Acrylic on aluminum mesh
- Overall
- Signed
- Yes
- Spotted At
- Gallery · Artsy Impact Auctions
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