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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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
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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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
show less
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