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Biographical Details:
Field is 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.
In 1973 Joshua Field was born in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts. He spent his formative years in St. Petersburg, Florida where he attended the Pinellas County Center for the Arts, a competitive four-year high school for the arts that accepts students through portfolio and on-site skills review . This formed Field’s classical foundation and also introduced him to the the influence of the Proto-Pop period in American Art when abstract expressionism clashed with the found objects and assimilated commercial imagery of the pop movement. (Florida’s gulf coast is a haven for the proto-pop elite, including Robert Rauschenberg and James Rosenquist.)
Field later attended the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore where he earned his BFA. At MICA, he focused on assemblage/collage and poetry, and was mentored by Joe Cardarelli, a renowned beat poet and friend of Alan Ginsberg, Andrei Codrescu, Anselm Hollo and Robert Creeley. Field connected readily with poetry as alternative narrative structures and an ideal analogue for narrative symbolic imagery. In 1996, Field moved back to the Berkshires where he currently maintains a studio in North Adams, Massachusetts, home to the largest contemporary art museum on the east coast, MassMoCA. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, from Chelsea in New York City to Berlin, Germany.
www.joshuafield.com
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Influences:
Charles Olson, Anselm Hollo, Ray Johnson, Joe Cardarelli, William Blake, Max Ernst, Arshile Gorky, Cy Twombly, Odilon Redon
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Education:
BFA, 1996, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland. BFA, General Sculptural Studies. Double Minor, Art History and Poetry. Summa Cum Laude.
Degree, 1992, Pinellas County Center for the Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida. Four-Year Fine Arts School.
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