Samantha Fields
Samantha Fields was born in Cleveland Ohio in 1972. After receiving her BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art, and her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, she moved to Los Angeles, where she is currently a Professor of Art at California State University, Northridge. Fields' acrylic paintings are characterized by their eerie, blurred depictions of landscapes with a strong emphasis on light and shadow. Fields' work derives inspiration from photographs of storms, and her paintings portray a deliberate hazy flatness, mirroring the finish of a photo.
Her work is represented by Traywick Contemporary in Berkeley and Western Project in Los Angeles. In 2013 she was awarded a City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Grant. She has an extensive exhibition history, including shows at Western Project, & Kim Light/LIGHTBOX Gallery in Los Angeles, Traywick Contemporary in Berkeley, Melanee Cooper Gallery in Chicago, The Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, Solway Jones Gallery in Los Angeles, Dirt Gallery in Los Angeles, POST Gallery in Los Angeles, Domestic Setting Gallery in Mar Vista, California, Suzanne Hilberry Gallery in Detroit, Lemberg Gallery in Birmingham, Michigan, The Jones Center for Contemporary Art in Austin, Texas, and Galerie Enholm Englehorn in Vienna, Austria. She has also …
Samantha Fields was born in Cleveland Ohio in 1972. After receiving her BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art, and her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, she moved to Los Angeles, where she is currently a Professor of Art at California State University, Northridge. Fields' acrylic paintings are characterized by their eerie, blurred depictions of landscapes with a strong emphasis on light and shadow. Fields' work derives inspiration from photographs of storms, and her paintings portray a deliberate hazy flatness, mirroring the finish of a photo.
Her work is represented by Traywick Contemporary in Berkeley and Western Project in Los Angeles. In 2013 she was awarded a City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Grant. She has an extensive exhibition history, including shows at Western Project, & Kim Light/LIGHTBOX Gallery in Los Angeles, Traywick Contemporary in Berkeley, Melanee Cooper Gallery in Chicago, The Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, Solway Jones Gallery in Los Angeles, Dirt Gallery in Los Angeles, POST Gallery in Los Angeles, Domestic Setting Gallery in Mar Vista, California, Suzanne Hilberry Gallery in Detroit, Lemberg Gallery in Birmingham, Michigan, The Jones Center for Contemporary Art in Austin, Texas, and Galerie Enholm Englehorn in Vienna, Austria. She has also participated in the community based collaborative exhibitions REBEL REBEL and East West Trading Post at artist Annie Shaws innovative Los Angeles project space, The New Chinatown Barbershop. Her work has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, ArtWeek, Art in America, Artillery, Art ltd.,The Detroit News, The Detroit Free Press and the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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