Joshua Field

Central to my work is a fascination with the interstitial; spaces charged with the energy of possibility like the tiny spark of static electricity that jumps from finger to a doorknob. In these overlooked gaps are dream-like worlds populated by our ghosts and their many shadows, made solid for an instant only to fade back into the diaphanous ether from which they emerged. Not just the resurrection of our collective memories, these ghosts are also reflected fragments of our present and harbingers of a furtively glimpsed at future.

The incongruent images that intersect here are strange bedfellows bumping elbows in the gloom, sometimes entering into a comfortable dance, sometimes engaging in bristling conflict and sometimes the dance and the conflict are one in the same. This dichotomy is most evident when nature and human collide. Though we vainly try to domesticate and cultivate the natural world around us we are inextricably a part of it. We shape and morph nature, twisting it into almost unrecognizable forms only to discover that in doing so we are really contorting ourselves.

These echoes weave their own intricate histories in their own languages; mirrors that reflect our own familiar stories.

EDUCATION

MFA 2012 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts

BFA 1996 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland

Diploma 1992 Pinellas County Center for the Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida.

2019 In Search of Why We Draw, Sandra Phillips Gallery, Denver, CO
2018 The Next Step, Gallery 104, New York, NY
2017 All That Remains, Front Range Community College, Longmont, CO (solo)
2017 In Absentia, Rotunda Gallery, Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design, Denver, CO (solo)
2017 Matters on Paper, Sandra Phillips Gallery, Denver, CO
2017 Arternative Facts, The Road Gallery, New York, NY
2017 Cloudlands, Albany International Airport Gallery, Denver, CO
2017 In Between Meetings, In Between Meetings, Lakewood, CO
2016 CROP: New Art from the Berkshires, Berkshire Art Association, Pittsfield, MA
2016 Open Opening, Counterpath, Denver, CO
2015 Into This Valley of Hands, C Gallery, North Adams, MA (solo)
2014 The Seed, Chashama Gallery , New York, NY
2014 Friends Contemporary, PHILLIPS de PURY, New York, NY
2013 TEN SPOT, Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA
2013 100 Hours in the Woodshed , MCLA Gallery 51, North Adams, MA
Curator: Susan Cross, MASS MoCA
2012 COVET, Ferrin Gallery, Pittsfield, MA
2012 The End of Histories, Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA
2012
We Dream in the Daytime Too, Descry Art Projects at Photobooth SF, San Francisco, CA
Curators: Chelsea Rae Klein, Descry Art Projects and Gregory Bartlett, The Spare Room Project

2011 GLIMPSE: Enigmatic Visions, William Bennett Gallery , New York, NY
Curator: Alessia Maiuri
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 Shameless Self Promotion, University Museum of Contemporary Art, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
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
Solo Exhibition [Read review by John Mitchell]
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