Samantha Fields, American, born 1972
Containment Series No. 64, 2009 Samantha Fields is an artist based out of Los Angeles and is a professor of art at California State University, Northridge. Fields presents the viewer with images of mysterious manufacture, she claims that “I Paint atmosphere with atmosphere.” She lets the atmosphere create her painting with no touch of hand, no texture of paint. She sprays coat after coat of vaporized acrylic paint onto super smooth canvas. The wildfire paintings are based on her own photographs and take hundreds of layers to create the paintings. Her work makes you feel like you are witnessing the fire and drawing the viewer into the cloud of smoke. It is almost sublime in its composition and invokes a sense of mass destruction. Label by Isabel Schreur