Violet Fields

Violet Fields (b. 1951, West Oakland, CA) is an African American artist and poet. Her abstract compositions of irregular past geometric shapes and lines feature pale “sandstone colors”, of personal reflections. Using layers of colored pencils and pastels over paint her works have subtle textures as seen in the folded and creased papers and canvases. She notes, “As a person of color in this country, I share with others a tradition, if not a natural affinity, for communication with higher sources… Art that is true can only be made by those who can ‘hear.’”

 

Violet Fields received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1973 and her MFA from the California State University, Sacramento in 1976. Fields received her teaching credentials from the California College of Arts and Crafts in 1979. She then went to serve as Master Teacher there for the Art Education Department. Her work has been shown at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Museum of Modern Art Rio de Janeiro, Stanford University, The San Francisco Women Artists Gallery, and at Metal Haus Gallery in Oakland. Violet's art has also had her work publicly collected and displayed throughout Washington state, Los Angeles, and especially throughout every Kaiser Permanente facility in Northern California. ​Fields was recently exhibited at FOG Design + Art in San Francisco as well as the exhibition titled Right is Right after her piece at Jenkins Johnson Gallery.