SFAI Graduate Lecture: Karen Finley

When
Fri Feb 7, 2014
Where
San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI)
Time
4:30 pm
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Description

Karen Finley is known for incendiary and emotionally complex works that span

the mediums of performance, music, photography, video, and installation. Her raw,

transgressive pieces have provoked controversy and debate on themes of social

injustice, sexual politics, and family dysfunction. In 1998, she was the plaintiff in a

contentious Supreme Court case Finley v. NEA that focused on public funding and

the arts—a situation that brought her work to wide audiences and unexpected

contexts. Finley received both an MFA and an honorary PhD from SFAI.


Image:
Karen Finley
Open Heart, 2012
Ceramics
Dimensions variable
Photographed by Paul Nebenzahl

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Link
http://www.sfai.edu/events
Call
415.771.7020

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  1. San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI)
    800 Chestnut St., San Francisco, CA