Joshua Field

North Adams, MA, United States

About Joshua Field

www.joshuafield.com 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.

Education:

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.

Exhibitions:

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 Projectam]
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 ]

Joshua Field

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