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Karen Finley: Trauma and CreativityPost an Event »
San Francisco Art Institute
February 7 - February 7, 2014Info
800 Chestnut Street San Francisco, CA 94133 Google Map »
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.