Sharyn Finnegan

Scream was born of the early years of the Second Wave Woman’s Movement and the consciousness raising group I founded, as well as from my first years in psychotherapy learning how I could/should speak up. Although I never got as far as screaming beyond this painting, maybe I should have. Only long after it was done did I realize the significance of the cut-off hands. I had a way to go, as did we all. Almost 50 years later with the #MeToo movement, we are still learning, we are still screaming and this work is still relevant.

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Sharyn Finnegan is a native New Yorker, artist and teacher centered in New York City. After graduate school in the ‘70s, she joined the exciting co-op movement in Soho, NYC at Prince Street Gallery, mounting solo shows and as director for three years. She has taught for many years at the Parsons School of Design.

Recent solo shows have been at Blue Mountain Gallery in Chelsea, NYC. Among many other venues, she has exhibited at the Queen’s Museum, the Grey Gallery at NYU, The Butler Institute, the Roswell Museum of Fine Art and the Galerie Mani, Berlin. AIR awards in England, Denmark, Iceland, Ireland, Newfoundland and the MacDowell Colony have inspired her landscape painting. With awards from the Lakkos Mural Project in Crete, she did her first street murals. Her monographs on the artists Clare Moore and Juanita McNeely were published in the Woman’s Art Journal.