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Joshua Field
About
Field is an emerging artist known for poetically driven narrative paintings that are iconic, psychological and subversive. Arrays of archetypical imagery culled from both the collective consciousness and the realm of the intensely personal portray both sociological issues and mythic individual dramas.
Central to my work is a fascination with a dreamlike unreality where contiguity becomes the reigning principle. In this dreamworld dialectic, the innate and irresistible propensity to make connections drives discovery. Figures become either actors placed in vaguely familiar roles or witnesses to the action at hand. Others become part of a shadow world, sometimes made sinister and other times inactivated as they are engulfed in darkness or disappear into a diaphanous ether. One can’t quite work out purpose or structure but must instead abandon explication in favor of the exploration.
The hallmarks of narrativity, the recognizable way in which objects are rendered or arranged, the use of remotely familiar historical imagery, are all suggestive of a disjunctive narrative but deductive reasoning fails in the same way that dreams force us to navigate a landscape that is internally defined, at once familiar and strange. This use of narrative grammar combined with dissonant contiguity creates an autarchical world where the battles fought, struggles undertaken and dramas played out are all self contained. Much like the currency of our dream lives, the indirect language of contiguity; analogy, metaphor and simile are the lenses through which this world is viewed. … Read More
- Location
- North Adams, MA, United States
- Website
- http://www.joshuafield.com
EDUCATION
BFA1996Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland. BFA, General Sculptural Studies. Double Minor, Art History and Poetry. Summa Cum Laude.
Diploma1992Pinellas County Center for the Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida. Four-Year Fine Arts Program.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2007 Angels and Demons, Annual National Juried Competition, Upstate Artists Guild, Albany, New York
2007 Get Out of Jail Free, Visual Aid, San Francisco, California
Curator: Maysoun Wazwaz
2007 One Foot Square, Agora Gallery, Chelsea, NYC
2007 Suckers and Biters: Love, Lollipops, and the Exquisite Corpse, AdHoc Art, Brooklyn, New York
Curator: Jeff White, Museum of Modern Art, NYC
2006
Anonyme Zeichner 3, bluetenweiss, Raum fuer Kunst, Berlin, Germany
Curator: Anke Becker
2005 Group Show, Gallery 51, North Adams, Massachusetts
1998 Liminal Threshold, Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, Massachusetts
1997 Downtown Installations, Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, Massachusetts
1996 Thesis Exhibition, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
1995 Juried Exhibition, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
LECTURES, CRITIQUES AND PROFESSIONAL
2006 ExCorps Artist, ExCorps/Concern Worldwide, Dublin, Ireland
1999 Artist in Residence, Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, MA
1998
Studio Residency, Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, MA
1997
Guest Critic, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Division of Cultural Affairs, Burlington County New Jersey
MEMBERSHIPS/ORGANIZATIONS:
Northern Berkshire Creative Arts
Berkshire Visual Arts
PAST MEMBERSHIPS:
Contemporary Artists Center - Board of directors
Western Massachusetts Arts Alliance, … Read More
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Events & Exhibitions
Exhibitions
2011 GLIMPSE: Enigmatic Visions, William Bennett Gallery, New York, NY
2011 When Your Leg Spends the Night in the Water, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
2011 100 Hours in the Woodshed: Collage Biennial, MCLA Gallery51, North Adams, MA
2010 Small Wonders, Jordan Faye Contemporary, Baltimore MD
2010 Spectacular Sights, Gallery KG52, Stockholm, Sweden
2010 Cultural Corridor , Storefront Artists Project , Pittsfield, MA [Curator: Susan Cross, MASS MoCA]
2010 Emerging Artists, Daniel Cooney Fine Art , Chelsea, NYC
2009 Art Bazaar, Lyons Wier Gallery, Chelsea, NYC
2009 SCORED! , Berkshire Fringe Festival, Great Barrington, MA
2009 On Shores of Pitch, Downstreet Art, North Adams, MA
2009 Fairy Tale, AG Gallery, Brooklyn, NY [Curator: Tomoko Ashikawa, Artists Space]
2009 200 Lincolns, Chicago Art Deprartment, Chicago, IL
2009 Woodshed II: The Next Hundred Hours, MCLA Gallery51, North Adams, MA
2008 Mapping the Invisible , MCLA Gallery51, North Adams, MA
2008 Get Out of Jail Free, Marin Arts Council, San Rafael, California
2008 RED DOT Art Fair, NYC , with Brenda Taylor Gallery, NYC
2008 WUNDERKAMMER: New Paintings by Joshua Field, Kolok Gallery, North Adams, MA
2007 Contemporary Berkshires , Kolok Gallery, North Adams, MA
2007 The Most Curatorial Biennial of the Universe, apexart, Tribeca, NYC
2007 Second Coming, Kolok Gallery, North Adams, Massachusetts
2007 Angels and Demons, Annual National Juried Competition, UAG Gallery, Albany, New York
2007 Get Out of Jail Free Benefit, Visual Aid, San Francisco, California [Curator: Maysoun Wazwaz, Southern Exposure]
2007 Square Foot Show , Art Gotham, Chelsea, NYC
2007 Suckers and Biters: Love, Lollipops, and the Exquisite Corpse, AdHoc Art, Brooklyn, New York [Curator: Jeff White, Museum of Modern Art, NYC]
2006 Anonyme Zeichner 3, bluetenweiss, Berlin, Germany [Curator: Anke Becker ] … Read More
