Wayne Fields

Wayne Fields is a Brooklyn-based working artist who favors oil painting, drawing (particularly ink) and acrylics. His works can best be described as abstracted figuration with a sculptural sense of form, utilizing subjects such as bridges, cities, the urban landscape, birds, cats and jazz musicians.

He is fascinated by the way drawings and paintings of the same subject are related. His drawings are not just sketches for a particular painting, but can stand alone as independent works; other drawings follow afterwards as postscripts. 'Slowing down' a subject in this way allows for musing and tends to concentrate attention on composition and form.

In 2003 he took on the tragic subject of the Twin Towers, memorializing them by depicting them alone, or trapped by ominous shapes, or looking forlorn, or casting shadows and plumes of smoke. Gradually the towers' physical relation to their island was explored, followed by airplanes, as vectors of force, and then bridges. The bridges took over, leading to a unique new approach to New York's vast harbor scenes.

Wayne was a painting resident of the Vermont Studio Center in late 2000. He taught college-level drawing in New Jersey. He graduated from Brandeis and Parsons School of Design, where he studied with Paul Georges, Peter Grippe, Leland Bell and Paul Resika. Wayne's work is in the collections of Tony Kushner, Sally Mara Sturman and Sheri London. He lives in Carroll Gardens and can be contacted via the gallery telephone or by email at wfields771@earthlink.net.