Talent Joshua Field

Channel:

Art

Genres:

Contemporary, Figurative, Lowbrow / Pop Surrealism, Mixed Media, Outsider Art, Pop Art, Psychedelic, Realism, Surrealism, Symbolism, Visionary Art

BIOGRAPHY
Joshua Field is known for poetically driven narrative paintings that are at once iconic, psychological and subversive. Arrays of archetypical imagery culled from both the collective consciousness and the realm of the intensely personal suggest both sociological issues and mythic individual dramas. Field has exhibited nationally and internationally and is currently represented by Kolok Gallery. He lives and works in North Adams, Massachusetts and holds a degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland.

STATEMENT
In the same way that poetic language gains meaning through distillation, imagery also becomes more potent when extracted from the collective consciousness and re-contextualized. It is in isolation that these iconic and archetypal images become part of the poem, imbued with supplementary meaning. Using this visual language, my recent work investigates the increasing isolation of the individual in society and the resulting expansion of the personal universe that one creates through amassed imagery.

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

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
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, Upstate Artists Guild, Albany, New York
2007 Get Out of Jail Free, Visual Aid, San Francisco, California
Curator: Maysoun Wazwaz
2007 Square Foot Show , 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

Charles Olson, Anselm Hollo, Ray Johnson, Joe Cardarelli, William Blake, Max Ernst, Arshile Gorky, Cy Twombly, Odilon Redon