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PRESENT
Self-employed Artist and Writer
POSITIONS:
Emeritus Professor (on faculty 1973 - 1994), University of Vermont,
Burlington, VT .
REPRESENTING
GALLERIES AND TOURS:
1)
Santa Fe Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM, 1995 - 1997. Juried.
2)
Los Alamos Artist Studio Tour 1996, 1998. Juried.
3) Chaffee Art Center, Rutland, Vermont, 1988-1996. Juried.
4) The Beside Myself Gallery, Arlington, Vermont, 1988-1995.
Invited.
ART EDUCATION:
A. MFA w. high honors (painting), Pratt Institute, 1994.
B. BFA Equivalent , including
credits from….
University of California,
Berkeley, 1966;
University of Vermont,
Burlington, 1977-88;
Vermont Studio School,
1986 - 1989;
Philadelphia College of
Art 1986.
C. Vermont Studio School, multiple
week- and month-long
Sessions with Jim Gahagan, who was a student, then colleague
of abstract-expressionist
painter Hans Hoffman, 1981 – 1990.
SOCIAL SCIENCE
DEGREES:
Ph.D. in Sociology, University of California at Berkeley, 1967
M.A. in Sociology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1961
B.A. in Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1959
PREVIOUS
POSITIONS:
1973-94 University of Vermont, Associate Professor of
Sociology,
(Sociology, Sociology of Art, Studio
Art)
1990- 91 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Visiting Lecturer
(Sociology of Art, Studio Art)
1980 Brigham Young University, Provo, Adjunct
Professor.
1967-73 University of Wisconsin, Madison, Assistant
Professor.
COLLECTIONS:
Corporate: IBM (Essex Junction)
Private: Maryland, New York City, Boston,
Illinois, Michigan,
Connecticut, Vermont,
Alabama, California, Virginia,
New Mexico, New York,
Arizona, Kansas.
ONE-MAN SHOWS:
(Juried or Invitational Only)
1981 "Prints and Drawings," Francis
Collburn Gallery, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vt.,
1988 "Recent Paintings and
Pastels," Church Street Center, University of Vermont,
Burlington, Vt., July.
1989 "Recent Pastel Paintings,"
Chaffee Art Center, Rutland, Vermont.
1990 "Recent Paintings," Beside Myself Gallery, Arlington,
Vermont.
1994 "MFA Exhibition of Painting," Pratt Institute,
Brooklyn, March.
1994 "Spotlight Artist," Vermont Council on the Arts,
Montpelier.
1995 "Naturalistic Abstractions," Chaffee Art Center,
Rutland, Vermont.
1995 "Recent Paintings," Unitarian/Universalist
Church, Burlington, Vt.,
1996 "Recent Paintings," Unitarian Church, Los Alamos, New
Mexico.
1996 "Barranca Series I," Santa Fe Contemporary Art.
1997 "TRANSITIONS: Recent Oil Paintings," Art Center, Los
Alamos, NM.
GROUP &
SMALL-GROUP SHOWS:
(Juried or Invitational Only):
1982 53rd & 58th Annual Juried Exhibition," Northern Vermont,
Artists’ Association,” Jericho,
Vermont ’83,’88 (1983 "Best in Show").
1981 “Vermont Artists," Vermont Offices of U.S.
Senator Robert Stafford, Winooski, Vermont, 6 pieces, small-group
show.
1988 "89th Annual Open Watercolor Exhibition," National Arts Club,
New York City.
1988 “Vermont Visual Artists Statewide
Juried Show," Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vt.
1989 "Mowing the Mountain," Vt. Women's
Caucus for Art, funded by Vt. Council on the Arts
( touring: Burlington, Brattleboro, Rutland).
1991 "Multi-Media '91," State
University of New York at Plattsburg
University Museum.
1991 "Drawings," Graduate Fine
Arts Gallery, Higgins Hall, Pratt Institute, New York (small- group
show; "anchor"position).
1988-93 "Arts Alive,"
Municipal Exhibition, Burlington, Vt., ‘88, '90, '93.
1994
"Abstract '94," curated group show of the West Side Arts
Coalition, Broadway Mall
Gallery,
New York City.
1994
"Pratt MFA Juried Exhibition," Pratt Manhattan, Puck Bldg.,
Soho, N.Y. (curated by art
critic Tiffany Bell).
1996 "Maximum Drawings," College of Santa Fe
Art Gallery, national, juried.
1996 “Que Pasa,” statewide juried
show, Los Alamos, NM.
1997 "Contemporary 1997,"
Albuquerque United Artists, Louis Grachos juror.
1998 "Friends of Contemporary Annual
Juried Show," LewAllen Contemporary Gallery, Santa Fe,
’99, ’04.
ART
PUBLICATIONS, PAPERS PRESENTED AND INVITED ART LECTURES:
1990 "Mediating Claims to Artistry: Social
Stratification in a Local Visual Arts Community,"
Sociological Forum, Vol. 8, No. 3,
September 1993. Note: earlier version presented
to the 12th World Congress of Sociology, Internat.
Sociological Assoc., Madrid.
1993 "Visiting the Zen Ancestors in Japan,"
Green Mountains Review.
1995
1994
"The Stylistic Games that Visual Artists Play," pp. 23-34 in
Boekmancahier 23, cultural journal of Boekmanstichting,
Amsterdam, Netherlands. Note: condensed version paper presented to
the 13th World Congress of the
Internationa Sociological Association, Bielefeld, Germany, 1994.
1995 "Transient Verities: Changing Aesthetic and Social Concerns,
1964/1992," invited lecture
(response to exhibition, "Time Capsules: Artist Print Portfolios
1964/1992), Fleming
Museum, University of
Vermont.
1996
"Art Production and Artists' Careers: the Transition from
'Outside' to 'Inside'," Ch. 3 in V.L.
Zolberg & J.M.
Cherbo (Eds.), Outsider versus Insider Art, Cambridge University
Press,
1997.
Presented to 21st Annual Conference on Social Theory, Politics and
the Arts,
University of California
at Santa Barbara, October l995.
OTHER
PUBLICATIONS:
Numerous poems, literary essays and sociological publications available
on request.
ART COURSES &
WORKSHOPS TAUGHT:
1) "Modern Art and Society," 3-credit course, includes studio
component, modern art-history review, sociology of art:
a) University of Vermont, regular offering
1988 - 1992.
b) Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Spring 1990.
2) "Spontaneous Drawing," a 1/2-day intensive introduction to
drawing for beginners, May 1986 & 1987. Non-credit.
SHOWS
ORGANIZED &/OR CURATED:1983
1983 "Vermont Artists," Exhibition in Vermont Offices of U.S.
Senator Robert T. Stafford.
1989,90 "Art of Social Consciousness," Societas I, II & III,
Student Exhibitions, University of Vermont (Francis Colburn
Gallery); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Campus Gallery).
1994 "QUE PASA: Art In New Mexico," Fuller Lodge Art
Center, Los Alamos. Co-curator with painter Nöel Bennett.
1998 "Contemporary Art 1998," Art Center at Fuller Lodge, Los
Alamos, Curator. Stuart Ashman, Juror.
BIOGRAPHICAL ARTICLES, SHOW REVIEWS, MAJOR REPRODUCTIONS:
1984
"Senator's Office Doubles as an Art Gallery," Maggie Maurice, Burlington
Free Press," Jan. 15, 1984 (1 image by hcf).
1989 WRUV-FM Interview on 1st Societas Show, April 30, 1989,
Burlington, VT.
1990 "At Beside Myself Gallery," The Manchester Guardian, Aug.
22, 1990.
1994
CD Cover, MMC Recordings, Ross Lee Finney's "Chamber Music -- 36
Song
Settings of Poems by James Joyce," 1994 CD; 1992 untitled monotype.
1995 Artist Biography, Marquis Who's Who in the East, New
Providence, NJ.
1995
"Signs, Symbols, Marks: Chaffee Exhibit Features Abstract Art," Ed
Barna, Rutland
Daily Herald, June 2, 1995, p. 8 of "Weekend" section.
1996 Paul R. Weideman, "Artist has show...",
Los Alamos Monitor, Feb. 7,
l996:2 (half-page). (2 images by hcf)
1996 "Art Pick," Weekly Alibi, Albuquerque, July 10 - 14, l996.
1996 Paul R. Weideman, "New Mexico Art on Display at the Lodge," Los
Alamos
Monitor,
"Calliope," pp 1-2. (1 image by hcf)
1997
"Luminous Art/Studio Visit w. H.C. Finney," Sandoval County
Arts, July 1996.
1998 Artist Biography, Marquis Who's Who in the West, New
Providence, NJ.
1998 “Finney to exhibit Oil Paintings,” Los Alamos Monitor, May 14,
1998.
1998 “Finney Talks About His Inward Journey,” Santa Fe New Mexican,
Pasatiempo,
May 15, 1998.
ART
GRANTS/AWARDS:
1990 Partial MFA Tuition Grant, Graduate College, University of
Vermont.
1998 Residency, Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, Temecula, CA.
Other See awards included under show listing, above.
ART
ORGANIZATION MEMBERSHIPS & POSITIONS HELD:
1)
Northern Vermont Artists' Association, 1975 - 1994. President,
1983-1985;
Board Member, 1981-1985.
2) Vermont Council on the Arts, Montpelier, 1988-1995.
3) Women's Caucus on Art, Vermont Chapter, 1988-1995.
4) Chaffee Art Center, Rutland, Vt., 1988-1995 (juried artist member).
5) College Art Association, 1988-1994.
6) American Sociological Association, Section on Culture, 1989-1994.
7) *Organization of Independent Artists, New York City, l992 - 1994.
8) New York Artists Equity Association, New York City, 1992 - 1997.
9) *Artists' Space, New York City, 1992 - 1997 (artist member).
10) Exit Art, New York City, 1994 - 1994 (artist member).
11) International Sociological Association, Section on Art, 1990 - 1997.
12) Santa Fe Council on the Arts, 1995 - present.
13)
Albuquerque United Artists, 1996 - 1999.
14)
Texas Artists Association, 1996 - present.
15) Art Center at Fuller Lodge, Exhibition Committee, 1997 - 1998.
16)
Live Poets Society, Santa Fe, 1998 - present.
BRIEF
STATEMENT (1994):
In contrast to the exuberant expressionism of earlier paintings, my
current work, while still gestural, is more atmospheric and restrained. My
palette has become more subdued, although colorism remains a central
concern. Working with drawings, monotypes and oils on canvas, I use
gestural motifs from nature and figure to create a dialogue between lyrical
expressionism and quietness or emptiness. Using abstract references to
roots, limbs, cliffs and embankments, each work usually reports on some
natural source; however, each is mainly about its own immediacy as an
abstraction. I sometimes also work with lithography, intaglio, silk-screen,
pastel, computer imaging, photography and multi-media relief.
SUPPLEMENTAL
OCCUPATIONAL DATA:
CURRICULUM VITAE
of previous academic career as a professional sociologist, including
numerous publications, consulting, presented papers, talks and courses
taught, are available on request.
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