
Snowballs
2025
Snowballs (2025) presents Summer Wheat's signature fusion of material ingenuity and figural tenderness on a monumental scale. Rendered in acrylic paint and gouache on aluminum mesh, the work exploits the open weave of its support to allow light to pass through and around the painted surface, giving the imagery a luminous, almost breathing quality that flat canvas cannot replicate. Wheat's technique involves pushing paint through the mesh from behind, building up a relief-like texture that reads differently depending on the viewer's proximity and the quality of ambient light, so the work is in constant, subtle dialogue with its environment. The subject matter carries the warmth and psychological complexity characteristic of Wheat's practice, in which everyday gestures and childhood archetypes become vehicles for examining memory, play, and collective experience. Snowballs suggests both joyful conflict and the ephemeral nature of winter rituals, evoking something universally recognizable while remaining rooted in the artist's distinctive visual language of thickened, tactile marks and rich, compressed color fields. At 176.5 by 123.2 centimeters, the work commands a wall with quiet authority, drawing viewers into its surface before releasing them into its broader emotional resonance. Wheat has established herself as one of the more technically distinctive painters working today, and works of this scale and material ambition are central to understanding her contribution to contemporary painting. Offered through Zidoun-Bossuyt, Snowballs represents an exceptional opportunity to acquire a major 2025 work that demonstrates both the formal rigor and human generosity that define her practice at its most accomplished.
- Medium
- Acrylic paint and gouache on aluminum mesh
- Overall
- Location
- Zidoun-Bossuyt, Luxembourg
- Spotted At
- Gallery · Zidoun-BossuytView on map
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