Wayne Fields

Wayne Fields is a Brooklyn-born working artist, and has held an art studio in various spaces within 543 Union since the '90's. 543 is one of the original buildings that participated in open studios back when it was mostly artists. For this year's tour, he will show new, recent and older work in a unique display. The studio is on the third floor, NW corner, in an elevator building. Most works are for sale, and there will be specially priced framed works. Complete information is at https://wfieldsart.com. Bear in mind that there are a number of artists in the Gowanus area that are not showing during this year's open studios. Background: MFA from Parsons (studied with Paul Resika and Leland Bell); college-level drawing instructor for two semesters, in NJ. In 1992, moved to Brooklyn from the Lower East Side. One-month residency at Vermont Studio Center in 2000; a First Street Gallery member in Chelsea for a few years culminating in a solo show there in 2007. Had a studio at the gargantuan 94 9th Street studios for one remarkable year - perhaps the closest experience to an actual artists community (the building, vacated for about 15 years, is now a Musk Tesla dealership). Was chair of BWAC's waterfront Pier Shows #7 and #8 in Red Hook (1999 and 2000). As for the fate of Gowanus, now inundated with a forest of giant luxury apartments for the rich, let's hope the neighborhood doesn't end up like other former meccas for artists - Tribeca, Dumbo and Chelsea - an unaffordable, sterile, artless, empty-storefronted, chainstore-and-bank branched, windswept glass wasteland, plagued with private car traffic.