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Galleries at the edges of expectation

Summer Wheat explores class with portraits, sculptural installation

By Cate McQuaid

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  February 22, 2012

Summer Wheat’s portrait paintings at Samsøn are such a sweet mess it almost doesn’t matter whom they depict. They pulse with gaudy juxtapositions of color, and paint built up and dolloped. Three-dimensional ribbons of the stuff curl over the canvases. Knotted patterns like crochet, applied with a pastry pipette, veil features. The figures are all Frankenstein’s monsters, grotesques electrified to life by paint.

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