Chris Finley – b. 1971, Carmel. (Lives and works in Rohnert Park, California)
Chris Finley’s handsome and sleekly designed constructivist-inspired imagery is often derived from digital manipulations of his surroundings and is reminiscent of Roberto Matta’s early surrealist paintings and the organic forms of Pevsner’s early plastic sculptures. For this project Finley will focus on YBCA’s Fumihiko Maki-designed building to create a series of works in his signature style in which curving splintered spaces intersect with its architectural host. Finley has had recent solo exhibitions at ACME, Los Angeles and Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco. Select group exhibitions include, California Modern, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, and Eureka, The Eureka Fellowship Awards 2002-2004, Berkeley Art Museum. Finley was also a 1999 recipient of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art SECA Award.
