Finley Christine

C. Finley is a New York and Rome based artist known for her elaborate geometric paintings, skillful use of color and her activism through street art. P revious projects include the 2014 Whitney Houston Biennial: Ia??m Every Woman, and Wallpapered Dumpsters which has been featured in the N ew York Times, La Repubblica, the Huffington Post, NYLON Magazine, Dazed, and Womena??s Wear Daily. Finley has shown internationally with exhibitions at Galerie Ernst Hilger, Vienna; Superchief Gallery Los Angeles; Jenn Singer Gallery New York; Context/Art Miami; Scope Miami and New York; FDA Projects, Rome; High Energy Constructs and Salon Oblique, Los Angeles; and the Dumba Collective, New York. As a member of the artist collective HowDoYouSayYamInAfrican?, she participated in the 2014 Whitney Biennial. Finley received her BFA from the Pratt Institute, New York and her MFA from California State University , Long Beach . http://iamfinley.com/ 

LETa??S GO DOWNTOWN WHERE MY POSSEa??S AT, a??CAUSE Ia??VE GOT NINE LIVES LIKE A KITTY CAT*

An Artista??s Statement

The ways in which C. Finley is reflected in her artwork:

  1. Color

    1. Personality, knowingness

    2. Intuition, chance

    3. Psychological

  2. Subject

    1. Images of Feminine attributes, sexuality and divinity*

    2. Joy, Luck, Fortune and Prophecy

    3. Travelogue through Time and Space: Italy and Art History

    4. Totemic Piling

      1. Blasting feminine signifiers

      2. Most autobiographical

      3. Built like bodies, and divided, sectioned, cut, layered, coated

  3. Geometry

    1. Pattern

    2. Sacred Geometry

    3. Balance

    4. Whata??s there and not there*

  4. Thoughts on Painting: Between color and geometry

a. All over field shifts the viewers focus

i. Zone Out, Get Lost

  1. Love of painting, the action

  2. Crossroad of personal history and paintinga??s history

The ways in which C. Finley will work more of herself into her artwork:

  1. Self portrait

  2. Reference a personal story

    a. Santiago?

  3. Text

    a. Slang

  4. Performance

  5. Goals with Painting

    1. To find a profound balance the humorous and the serious

    2. Make work that is more tender, whatever that means

    3. Idealistic motivation is to redesign the world with joy and positivity

*Britney Spears and What Is Implied but Not Spoken 

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