Donald O'Finn Video Artist

Sunday, January 4, 2009

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The television show "TV Dreams" by O'Finn: Every Thursday.
airs in Brooklyn at 12:30 am on Time Warner Cable on ch 56, on CableVision ch 69
airs in Manhattan at 10:30 pm on Time Warner ch 56 and on RCN ch 83

Village Voice - BEST Of/2001-2008: “Donald O'Finn's feverishly edited encyclopedically strange video collages...”

Video "Don't Go Looking -Part One"

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Video still "Meat Puppet"

Video "Don't Go Looking -Part Two"

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BFA/MFA San Francisco Art Institute

Selected Exhibitions and screenings:

2010 ComVideo, Apexart, New York, NY

2009-Busan International Film Featival, Bandee

Busan, Korea.

2009-PI Festival. National Museum of Art.

Szczecin, Poland.

2009-Portuguese Cine-theatre Zero-Film. Traveling Art project throughout Portugal.

2009-Manipulated image. The Complex Science and Art.

Santa Fe, New Mexico.

2009-18 Dokument Art. 18 Festival.

Szczecin, Poland.

2009-Luminous Flux. Galapagos Art Space.

Brooklyn, N.Y.

2007-Media Show. Hangar 1018.

LA, CA.

2006-Improvised Media rev. 99. Monkey Town

Williamsburg, N.Y.

2005-Cosmic. (rev.99)* The Hirshhorn Museum of Art.

Wa, DC.

2005-Improvised History. (rev.99)* Anthology Film rchives,

NY, NY.

2005-Video Series. Goliath Visual Space,

Brooklyn, N.Y.

2005-Performance. (rev.99)* Anthology Film Archives.

NY, NY.

2005-Special Screenings. Brklyn Underground Film Festival.

Brklyn, N.Y.

2004-Selected series. The Mass College of Art.

Boston, MA.

2004-Performance. (rev.99)*Anthology Film Archives.

NY, NY.

2003-Up in Arms. Parkers Box Art Gallery.

Brklyn, N.Y.

2001-Screening. Galapagos Art Space.

Brklyn, N.Y.

1998-Gallery Artist's Exhibition. Alan Stone Gallery.

NY, NY.

1996-Gallery Artist's Exhibition. Alan Stone Gallery.

NY, NY.

1994-Gallery Artist's Exhibition. Alan Stone Gallery.

NY, NY.

1991-Gallery Artist's Exhibition. Alan Stone Gallery.

NY, NY.

1991-Gallery Artist's Exhibition. Foster Goldstrom Gallery.

NY, NY.

1990-Solo Show. Foster Goldstrom Gallery.

NY, NY.

1988-Gallery Artist's Exhibition. Art Rental, MOMA.

SF, CA.

Since 1980 I have re-purposed, re-contextualized, effected, and weaved appropriated media samples into the dreams a television Might have. I am trained as a painter, with an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, and always have approached these constructions exactly like I would a painting, letting the process, and the material determine any final content. The work represents television both as a medium, message, and as a device of conscious and subconscious cultural significance. I consider my product much closer to poetry or painting, than to film or TV.
My work is film course curriculum at various N.Y. Colleges including Vassar College and New York University.

“the most tripped out and intelligent re-cuts of movie clips, commercials, and various other resources you can imagine. I have wrote about these masterpieces already ..... His work provides a superb example of the mash up as de-contextualizing the medium from the message in order to re-contextualize a mindful imagination.” OpenAcademic.org

Solo Exhibitions:

2008-Projections. Botanica.
Brklyn, NY.

2005-Retrospective. Gorilla Space.
Brklyn, NY.

1990-Big Figure.
Foster Goldstrom Gallery.
NY, NY.

1989-SoloShow.
Joseph Chowning Gallery.
San Francisco, CA.

* performing with the multi media audio-visual art collective known as rev.99.

Donald O'Finn Video Artist

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