09/16/2025
TOMORROW: Artist Talk by Samantha Fields ⚡️
🗓️ Wednesday, September 17 at noon
📍 Weisman Museum of Art, 1st floor
After receiving her BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art, and her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, moved to Los Angeles, where she is currently a Professor of Art and the Interim Associate Dean of the Mike Curb College of Arts, Media, & Communication at California State University, Northridge.
Fields has “gained recognition for her lovingly rendered images of disasters and disorientations in the natural landscape and built environment — fires, floods, tornadoes, and the like. But since 2016, her concept of destruction has expanded to include the chaos and confusion rampant in this chapter of our social and political history,” writes critic Shana Nys Dambrot. “While her iconography and palette intensified, the images have remained metaphorical, with emotions evoked and Cassandra-like warnings issued, and dark humor abounding as a strategy for staying sane.”
She has received numerous awards and recognition, including a prestigious City of Los Angeles (COLA) Individual Artist Grant. She has an extensive exhibition history, including shows at rdfa Los Angeles, The University Art Museum in Long Beach, The Museum of Art & History, Lancaster, Western Project, & Kim Light/LIGHTBOX Gallery in Los Angeles, Melanee Cooper Gallery in Chicago, Dirt Gallery in Los Angeles, POST Gallery in Los Angeles, Galerie Enholm Englehorn in Vienna, Austria. She is represented by Traywick Contemporary in Berkeley, California.
This event is free and open to the public; no registration is required. Organized by Pepperdine’s Fine Arts Department in collaboration with the Weisman Museum of Art.
