“Weighty Messages, Clad in Exuberant Gestures”: Recent Exhibition with Wheeler’s Work Reviewed in Boston Globe

Inscape/Instress, featuring work by Prospectus artist Deb Todd Wheeler as well as by Sheila Gallagher and Eva Lundsager, was on view at the Jewett Art Gallery, Wellesley College, through December 18.

Of Wheeler’s work in the exhibition, The Boston Globe art critic Cate McQuaid wrote:

“Wheeler’s ‘Pink Clouds’ installation is a selection of aluminum-mounted prints of clouds in flagrant fuchsia, starting with tiny fragments hanging near an old metal fan, and expanding over the wall. They billow and gasp as they grow; the color, so fresh in a petal, here has a toxic glare. Wheeler asks: Do you know what you’re breathing?

“Her deadpan video “Instructions for Living (Underwater)” pulls us in with dizzy splashes and submerged shots, but the sardonic narration implies that humans may have to adapt in outrageous ways when the seas rise.”

The rest of McQuaid’s review of the show can be accessed here.

Deb’s Prospectus collaboration with Bec Conrad and Michael Nagle can be seen here.