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Fridman Gallery presents a solo booth by Summer Wheat, a site-specific painting installation for NADA 2016.

This project creates a room of forgotten tapestries from the invented parafictional world built around Johannes Vermeer’s "The Milkmaid". The immersive environment of large scale faux jungle-themed images portrays life beyond western society. Wheat explains:

"In the same way that artists, such as Gustave Courbet, challenged the traditions of painting by depicting ordinary people on a monumental scale, this work aims to do the same with the character of the milkmaid. In …