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Joshua Field
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	File:Joshua field artist 2006.jpg Joshua Field
Nationality	American
Education	Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore
Known for	Painting, sculpture

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Joshua Field (Born 27 October, 1973) is an American artist known for narrative paintings which use iconic and psychological imagery to create complex sometimes mysterious scenarios. He exhibits his paintings in the United States and Europe.

Many of Field’s best-known paintings utilize the visual language of collage to bring a broad range of seemly unrelated images into a painting. His early work incorporated found objects and made use of popular imagery, referencing the transition period between Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art when artists like Robert Rauschenberg and Larry Rivers used both lyrical brush strokes and popular imagery in their work. Later, Field’s paintings developed a more personal symbolism in which certain characters or objects appearing more frequently. His current work is deeply symbolic and often contains references to classical mythology in addition to personal narrative.

Field lives and maintains a studio in North Adams, Massachusetts.

Life and work

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 but also introduced him to the Proto-Pop period in American Art, a time when abstract expressionism clashed with the introduction of 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.

File:Joshua Field painting 2007.jpg

Resemblance Masquerading as the Root of Strife, 2008, by Joshua Field.

Field later attended the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore where he expanded his education. 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. He currently maintains a studio in North Adams, Massachusetts, home to the largest contemporary art museum on the east coast, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, from Chelsea in New York City to Berlin, Germany.

Field is known for poetically driven narrative paintings that are iconic, psychological and subversive. Arrays of archetypal imagery culled from both the collective consciousness and the realm of the intensely personal portray both sociological issues and mythic individual dramas.

Georgia Fee, co-founder and owner of ArtSlant.com, said:

His paintings and drawings mix an abstract expressionist focus on surface with a wonderful sort of poetic storytelling. ^[1]

Influences

Robert Rauschenberg - Proto-Pop Painter
Larry Rivers - Pop Painter
Willem De Kooning - Abstract Expressionist Painter
Ray Johnson - Proto-Pop Collagist and Mail Artist
Charles Olson - Poet
Joe Cardarelli - Beat Poet
Anselm Hollo - Poet
Arshile Gorky - Modernist Painter
Cy Twombly - Abstract Expressionist Painter

Notes and references

^ Fee, Georgia. "RackRoom Interview with Joshua Field", ArtSlant, 15 May 2008. Retrieved 15 May 2008.

External links

[1] Fee, Georgia. "RackRoom Interview with Joshua Field", ArtSlant, 15 May 2008. Retrieved 15 May 2008.

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+'''Joshua Field''' (Born [[27 October]], [[1973]]) is an [[American]] [[artist]] known for narrative paintings which use iconic and psychological imagery to create complex sometimes mysterious scenarios. He exhibits his paintings in the United States and Europe.
-'''Joshua Field''' (born 1973) is a contemporary symbolic narrative painter.
+Many of Field’s best-known paintings utilize the visual language of [[collage]] to bring a broad range of seemly unrelated images into a painting. His early work incorporated found objects and made use of popular imagery, referencing the transition period between [[Abstract Expressionism]] and [[Pop Art]] when artists like [[Robert Rauschenberg]] and [[Larry Rivers]] used both lyrical brush strokes and popular imagery in their work. Later, Field’s paintings developed a more personal [[symbolism]] in which certain characters or objects appearing more frequently. His current work is deeply symbolic and often contains references to [[classical mythology]] in addition to personal narrative.
-Joshua Field's work explores themes including isolation, sexuality and conflict, using a diverse variety of media including charcoal, gold leaf, oil, gouache and acrylic. Field holds a BFA from the [[Maryland Institute College of Art]] in [[Baltimore]], MD and a degree from the Pinellas County Center for the Arts in St. Petersburg, FL.
+Field lives and maintains a studio in [[North Adams]], [[Massachusetts]].
-Field attended a high school for the arts, the [[Pinellas County Center for the Arts]], in St. Petersburg, Florida. Upon admission, he entered an intensely creative environment, an experience that formed his classical foundation. He was influenced by what is often called the [[proto-pop]] movement, a time when [[abstract expressionism]] clashed with the introduction of the [[ready-made]], found object and assimilated commercial imagery of the [[pop art]] movement. Florida’s gulf coast is a haven for the proto-pop elite, including [[Robert Rauschenberg]] and [[James Rosenquist]].
+==Life and work==
-Joshua then attended the [[Maryland Institute College of Art]] in [[Baltimore]] where he expanded his education. 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 the assembly of text to create alternative narrative structures is an ideal analogue for narrative symbolic imagery.
+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 but also introduced him to the Proto-Pop period in American Art, a time when abstract expressionism clashed with the introduction of 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]].
-After graduating a semester early in 1996, Joshua moved to the [[Berkshires]] of Western Massachusetts, which was quickly becoming a Mecca for the visual arts. He established a studio in the town of [[North Adams]], Massachusetts, where the largest contemporary art museum on the east coast, the [[Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art]], had just opened. There, he began a long involvement with the Contemporary Artists Center which began as a studio residency and eventually led to Field presiding over the CAC’s board of directors. Field currently lives and works in North Adams, MA and maintains a studio at the Historic Windsor Mill.
+[[Image:Joshua Field painting 2007.jpg|thumb|left|''Resemblance Masquerading as the Root of Strife'', 2008, by Joshua Field.]]
+Field later attended the [[Maryland Institute College of Art]] in [[Baltimore]] where he expanded his education. 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. He currently maintains a studio in North Adams, Massachusetts, home to the largest contemporary art museum on the east coast, the [[Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art]]. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, from [[Chelsea]] in New York City to [[Berlin]], Germany.
+Field  is known for poetically driven narrative paintings that are iconic, psychological and subversive. Arrays of archetypal imagery culled from both the collective consciousness and the realm of the intensely personal portray both sociological issues and mythic individual dramas.
+Georgia Fee, co-founder and owner of [http://www.artslant.com ArtSlant.com], said:
+{{cquote|His paintings and drawings mix an abstract expressionist focus on surface with a wonderful sort of poetic storytelling. <ref>Fee, Georgia. [http://www.artslant.com/global/artists/rackroom/14428 "RackRoom Interview with Joshua Field"], ''[http://www.artslant.com ArtSlant]'', [[15 May]] [[2008]]. Retrieved [[15 May]] [[2008]].</ref>}}
 ==Influences==
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 *[[Charles Olson]] - Poet
 *[[Joe Cardarelli]] - Beat Poet
-*Anselm Hollo - Poet
+*[[Anselm Hollo]] - Poet
 *[[Arshile Gorky]] - Modernist Painter
 *[[Cy Twombly]] - Abstract Expressionist Painter
+==Notes and references==
+{{reflist}}
+==Further Reading==
+*''Mr. Field's Amazing Cabinet of Wonders'', John E. Mitchell, The Transcript, 2007.
+*[http://artslant.com/global/artists/rackroom/14428 ArtSlant.com Interview with Joshua Field], Georgia Fee, ArtSlant.com, 2008.
+*''Inside the Berkshires'', David McLaughlin, Pentacle Press, 2008, Scottsdale, Arizona.
 ==External links==
 *[http://www.joshuafield.com Official Website for Joshua Field]
+*[http://www.kolokgallery.com Kolok Gallery]
 *[http://www.massmoca.org Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art]
 *[http://www.thecac.org The Contemporary Artists Center]
+*[http://www.gibbs-hs.pinellas.k12.fl.us/slc/pcca/index.html Pinellas County Center for the Arts]
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