06/17/2026
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Summer Wheatโs Summer Wheat first exhibition with the gallery.
The exhibition will open on Thursday, June 25th, with an opening reception from 6- 8PM and will be on view through August 8th at A Hug From The Art World, 515 W 19th
St, New York, New York, 10011.
Forbidden Fruit draws from the historical and biblical idea of temptation, desire, knowledge, and consequence, but repositions it within the emotional and psychological realities of contemporary life. In this context, the โforbidden fruitโ is no longer simply a
symbol of moral transgression; it becomes a metaphor for the burden of awareness in an era shaped by overstimulation, ecological anxiety, and consumption. The work reflects a culture where beauty and seduction are inseparable from systems of exhaustion, performance, surveillance, and instability. By merging lush sensory experience with fragmentation and tension, the paintings speak to a contemporary condition in which pleasure, vulnerability, overload, intimacy, and anxiety coexist simultaneously.
The work inhabits a condition where beauty and anxiety can no longer be separated โ
where intimacy exists alongside surveillance, pleasure alongside exhaustion, abundance alongside ecological fragility, and connection alongside emotional fragmentation. The paintings create immersive environments that feel simultaneously bodily, architectural,
digital, and psychological. Nets, lattice structures, woven marks, flowers, fruit, fragmented figures, and densely layered surfaces collapse into one another until distinctions between the natural and the constructed begin to dissolve. The aluminum mesh functions almost like a contemporary metaphor for screens, filters, barriers, membranes, or systems of containment, while still remaining deeply physical and handmade.
SUMMER WHEAT
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Acrylic paint and gauche on aluminum mesh,
68 x 47 1/4 inches
172.7 x 120 cm
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Rather than illustrating contemporary culture directly, the work absorbs its emotional conditions: overstimulation, constant visibility, infor
