Reaching back as far as the mid-1980s, Jeanne Finley has been an inspiring figure for the Bay Area's video community. Unusual in her discipline, she embraces aesthetically adventurous visual forms while wedding them to socially engaged subjects such as cultural injustice, women's rights, and the abuses of power. The satiric tone typical of Finley's lively video works often conceals an irate intellect. Giving up her post as chair of the Film/Video Department at California College of Arts and Crafts, Finley has moved to New York, but returns on September 24 for the premiere of a new triptych, O Night Without Objects. To this we add a small retrospective of her works, tonight and on the 24th.
