"Michael Finnegan's paintings are inextricably linked to photography, particularly contemporary imagery derived from cell phone cameras—devises that follow us wherever we go these days and document virtually every aspect of contemporary life. In addition, his paintings are process-rich, with the result that familiar scenes blur into expressive abstractions.”

-Jan Avgikos, MFA Faculty

Jan Avgikos is an art historian and critic and teaches at the School of the Arts at Columbia University and the Art Institute of Boston. She is contributing editor at Artforum and has written on various contemporary artists, among them John Baldessari, Maurizio Cattelan, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, and Roni Horn.