Finley, Karen
From David Wojnarowicz Knowledge Base
Finley is a performance artist, musician, and poet. She and Wojnarowicz were close friends from the mid-1980s until his death and they acted together in Richard Kern's film You Killed Me First. In 1990, Finley sued the NEA after her grant was vetoed by the NEA's chairman John Frohnmeyer, making her one of the so-called "NEA Four," along with John Fleck, Holly Hughes, and Tim Miller. Wojnarowicz was experiencing his own fight with the NEA at this time, over his contribution to the catalog for Nan Goldin's show Witness: Against Our Vanishing.
Sources
Interviewed for Carr, Fire in the Belly, 2012
Contributor, David Wojnarowicz: Brush Fires in a Social Landscape, 2015
