CULTUREEDIT ART AUCTION #4
karen finley
The Snake Killer, Karen Finley, 1989
Details
Signed and titled right and left margins on front by the artist. Dated 1989 and signed by the artist on reverse.
11 1/4 x 12 5/8 in (28.6 x 32.1 cm)
Karen Finley (American 1956-) “The Snake Killer”, unframed original in pastel & colored pencil on black Canson Mi-Teintes paper. Minor crimping upper left and right edges. Slight tear (1/2”) bottom left. Signed and titled right and left margins on front by the artist. Dated 1989 and signed by the artist on reverse.
Provenance: Ms. Finley donated this work to the inaugural OUT Auction in Los Angeles, in 1991, a fundraising event conceived as a public declaration of dissent against political suppression of art, and specifically designed in response to recent censorship policies from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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CULTUREEDIT ART AUCTION #4
karen finley
Karen Finley is an American postwar and contemporary artist born in 1956, known for her controversial and provocative work in performance art, writing, and visual art. Finley's work addresses taboo subjects like sexuality, abuse, disenfranchisement, and the female body. Finley works across various media, including installation, video, literature, and painting. In 1990, Finley and three other artists had their grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) rescinded after facing accusations of "indecency". Finley is currently an Arts Professor in the Art and Public Policy department at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She continues to create and perform, recently staging a one-woman show about the pandemic, receiving critical acclaim. Finley is also engaged in ongoing visual art projects, with a recent solo exhibition, "More Desperate Than Ever", exploring themes of grief, healing, and censorship.
