Tainted Oasis 16

ink and acrylic on panel

30 x 30 inches

Courtesy of Quirk Gallery

Guest curated by Sarah Irvin

Suzanna Fields grew up in Appalachia, where the strange beauty of nature seeped into her hyper-intricate paintings. A recipient of a Bethesda Painting Award, a Liquitex Purchase Prize, a finalist for the Trawick Prize, and residencies at Mountain Lake Biological Station, the Studios at Key West, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Field's art is in collections including: VMFA, the Eleanor Wilson Museum, Capital One, Philip Morris, the Kimpton Hotel Group, Bill and Pam Royall, and Shepard and Amanda Fairey. She has been recognized in the Washington Post, New American Paintings, the Roanoke Times, and Art Papers Magazine. Her work has been exhibited at the Taubman Museum of Art (Roanoke, VA), the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art (Virginia Beach, VA), the Weatherspoon Museum of Art (Greensboro, NC), The Swan Coach House Gallery (Atlanta, GA), the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art (Laurel, MS) and Quirk Gallery (Richmond and Charlottesville, VA). Fields received her MFA in Painting from Virginia Commonwealth University and a BA in Art and English from Mary Baldwin College and lives in Richmond.