Bean Finneran
Red dome with black tips, 2018
low fire clay, acrylic stain, glaze
Diameter approx. 115 cm, height 68 cm
Unikat
.jpg "Bean Finneran: \"Red dome with black tips\" (2018)")
Bean Finneran
Bean finneran's sculptures are minimalistic and abstract - and at the same time they remind viewers of flora and fauna: coral reefs, grassy plants, haystacks or sea anenomes - to name a few of the associations made. Although the artist does not have the objective to copy nature, her artwork nonetheless has almost natural qualities, as in the way the sculpures "grow" when being installed.
Her sculptures are made up of thousands of individually handmade and painted pieces of clay, that she refers to as "curves". Each curve is one-of-a-kind and each sculpture is unique and can never be put together in the exact same way twice. Just like nature, her sculptures are in constant fluctuation.
Public collections: Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA; Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI; Museum of Decorative Arts, Paris; Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums, San Francisco, CA
Videos
Vita
1947
born Cleveland, Ohio
1966 - 1967
Goucher College, Baltimore, MD
1968
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mi
1968 - 1970
ZONE Theater Company, performer Boston, MA
1969
Museum School, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, MA
mehr ...
1970
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
1972
- present: Soon 3 Theater Company, Associate Artistic Director-Designer-Performer. 9 national & international tours premiering at the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, Ca
1974 - 1988
Parrot Pearls Ceramic Jewelry, Founder & Co-Designer
Exhibitions
Einzelausstellungen
2022
• Projekt #7: Bean Finneran / Katharina Gierlach, DavisKlemmGallery Projektraum, Hochheim am Main.
2019
• one artist show, Art Karlsruhe, DavisKlemmGallery, Karlsruhe.
• Zwischenspiel (Ausstellung mit Andrea Zaumseil), Kunstverein Reutlingen, Reutlingen.
2018
• Bit by bit, Radius Gallery, Santa Cruz,CA.
• Skulpturenplatz Art Karlsruhe, DavisKlemmGallery, Karlsruhe.
• sculpture, DavisKlemmGallery, Wiesbaden.
2017
• Orbits, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland. Oregon.
• ARTour2011, Musee Royal de Mariemont, Morlanwelz.
• Incidence and pattern, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon.
2016
• Keramis-Centre de la Céramique, La Louvière.
mehr ...
2009
• Three Decades of Sculpture, Performance & Photography, two person show with Alan Finneran, Braunstein/ Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2008
• XXe Biennale Internationale de Ceramique Contemporaine de Vallauris, Vallauris.
2007
• Realms, The Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA.
• New Work, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago,IL.
• CYCLE, Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD.
• Meander, University of Oklahoma, Stillwater, OK.
2006
• Shift, PDX CONTEMPORARY ART, Portland; OR.
• Installations, Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY.
• Topologies, Braunstein Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
• Gail Severn Gallery, Sun Valley, ID.
• Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA.
2005
• Up/Down/Around, Gallery 555 with the Oakland Museum of California at City Center, Oakland.
• Slow Time/ Play Time, The Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA.
• Structures, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI.
2003
• Arcs in Time, Montalvo Gallery, Saratoga, CA.
• Curves, PDX CONTEMPORARY ART, Portland, OR.
• Random Encounters, Installation, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA.
• Yellow, Braunstein/ Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
• The Character of Clay, 2 person show with Jun Kaneko, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum,ID.
2002
• Bean Finneran: Recurrence, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO.
2000
• Eyre/ Moore Gallery, Seattle, WA.
• New York, Braunstein/ Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
1999
• The 2nd Annual International Art Exposition, San Francisco, CA.
1998
• Davis Art Center, Davis,CA.
1997
• Introductions, Braunstein/ Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
0
• University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK.
Gruppenausstellungen
2022
• More Clay, American University Museum, Washington D.C..
2017
• La sculpture céramique - Expression Contemporaine, Centre Céramique de Giroussens, Giroussens.
2016
• A Stand of Pine in a Tilled Field: 21 Years at PDX, PDX CONTEMPORARY ART, Portland, OR.
• Spectrum: Contemporary Artists in Color, Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wi.
• Fired Up: Monumental Clay, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA.
• Fine Craft Invitational, The Foothills Art Center, Golden,CO.
2010
• Excessive Obsession, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR.
• Introductions: Where They Are Now, Braunstein/ Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2009
• Prospection & Perspective, P 1, Galerie Favardin & de Verneuil, Paris.
2008
• Holiday Special: Gallery Group Show, Braunstein/ Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2007
• Coming Attractions: Gallery Group Show, Braunstein/ Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2006
• Mendhall Sobieski Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
• Multiplicity: Contemporary Ceeramic Sculpture, Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts, University of Texas, El Paso,TX.
• Arts Botanica, Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago,IL.
• Gail Severn Gallery, Sun Valley, ID.
2005
• Tales from the Kiln, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA.
• NEXT, PDX CONTEMPORARY ART, Portland, OR.
• Jerry Bennett and Bean Finneran: Pushing the Limits, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI.
• 3rd World Ceramics Bienniale, World Ceramic Exposition Foundation, Incheon.
• From Tiles to Totems: A Century of Northern California Ceramics, Art Foundry, Sacramento,CA.
• Today`s Voice: Exploring Alternative Applications, Neuhoff Gallery, New York, NY.
• Ceramics, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA.
2004
• Subtraction & Addition: Ceramic Sculpture and Installations, Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco, CA.
• Critical Mass, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX.
• Black & White, Linda Ross Contemporary, Detroit,MI.
• Pucini Lubel Gallery, Seattle, WA.
• Susan Street Fine Arts Gallery, Solano Beach,CA.
• Chaos/Control, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago,IL.
• Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum,ID.
• Summer Group Show, PDX CONTEMPORARY ART, Portland, OR.
• A Rare Glimpse: Modern American Art from Private Napa Valley Collections, Napa Valley Museum, Napa,CA.
2003
• Branch Out, Braunstein/ Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
• San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA.
• Small Works, Kemper Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO.
2002
• Conceptual Color, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz,CA.
• New Space, New Work, Braunstein/ Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
• Scripps 58th Ceramic Annual, Scripps College, Claremont, CA.
2001
• Conceptual Color, San Francisco State University Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
• PDX CONTEMPORARY ART, Portland, OR.
1998
• Landscape as Memory, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
1997
• Ceramics Annual, John Natsoulis Gallery, Davis,CA.
0
• Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT.
.jpg "Bean Finneran - Red dome with black tips")
.jpg "Bean Finneran - Black cone")
.jpg "Bean Finneran - Red ring")
.jpg "Bean Finneran - Purple dome")
.jpg "Bean Finneran - Yellow Ring")
.jpg "Bean Finneran - Red and orange dome")
.jpg "Bean Finneran - Red Ring, Keramis Museum, Belgien")
