Summer Wheat is an adventurer in the realm of contemporary paint. Her works are heroic in size, but even more intrepid in their fearless psychological exploration and manipulation of the medium.  She uses tools to ice her canvases like cakes and weave strands of paint together like yarn. She has traveled, lived and worked throughout the United States and abroad, collecting stories, curiosities and eccentric encounters.  She received her MFA in painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design, where she was awarded the Lacoste Graduate Residency in Lacoste, France. Her paintings are part of numerous private collections and are on permanent public display at the Des Plaines Children's Library in Chicago, Illinois and the Turner and Associates Architectural firm in Atlanta, Georgia.