JENNY FIELD

Arts | March 30th, 2016

By Jacinta Macheel Zens

Maine Township, Minnesota artist Jenny Field is one of the most well recognized and prolific artists in Otter Tail County. From a very early age, Field wanted her life to be in the arts. She has not veered from this childhood aspiration. “From my earliest memories of life being raised in a large family on a hard working dairy farm in Star Lake Township, Minnesota, to my current life as a full time artist, still loving the Otter Tail County area: creating has been my voice, my strength, my life line, my catharsis.”

Her passion for art and 20+ years of work with color mixing can be seen in every piece she produces, and her unique expressionistic style has a ubiquitous presence throughout the Otter Tail County lakes area.

Field began her art career in her late teens, while attending her first years of college. She would sell commissioned pencil portraits during this time to help pay for her studies in commercial art and graphic design.

After college, she combined her newlylearned skills with her innate creativity to create her own business: Blue Dragonfly Art. She found that it was difficult at that time to make a living for herself and her infant son by selling her art.

She undertook a myriad of other creative endeavors to provide for herself and her son including decorative wall art, painting furniture, teaching art classes, painting commissions and murals for homes, museums, and businesses, doing art festivals, and opening and managing an arts and antiques business in the lakes area.

Throughout all of this, Jenny was honing her artistic skill, developing her own expressionistic style, and creating breathtaking paintings. In May of 2000, her oil painting Jake’s Ladder was chosen from many juried entries to represent the Spring Gala "Metamorphosis" at the Plains Art Museum. Since then, Jenny has cultivated her style, and become one of the most recognized artists of our region.

Her current body of work, “CathARTic Colors,” is a collection of works of “self- expression meant not only as a 'catharsis' for myself, but as a catharsis for others by opening up a dialogue about human emotion evoked through a spectrum of color and subject manner.”

Ms. Field created all of the “CathARTic Colors” paintings to “individually stand on their own as objects of contemplation, symbolism, and occasional questions, and ultimately bring all 20 pieces together for a cohesive and exciting experience for the viewer.”

Jenny Field’s entire “CathARTic Colors” series will be on display at the Kaddatz Gallery in Fergus Falls, MN, from March 29th through May 7th. During this time, there will also be a smaller exhibition of Ms. Field’s painted furniture. The reception for this series is on March, 31st, from 4 pm-7 pm. For more information, please contact this Kaddatz Gallery.

IF YOU GO

Jenny Field, CathARTic Colors Art Show opening

March 31st, 47pm

Kaddatz Gallery, 111 W Lincoln Fergus Falls, MN 56537

218-998-4405, info@kaddatzgalleries.org

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