Bean Finneran
White Ring (vorn), 2018
low fire clay, acrylic stain, glaze
Diameter approx. 200 cm, height 34 cm
Unikat
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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
Vita
1947
born Cleveland, Ohio
66 - 67
Goucher College, Baltimore, MD
1968
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mi
68 - 70
ZONE Theater Company, performer Boston, MA
1969
Museum School, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, MA
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
74 - 88
Parrot Pearls Ceramic Jewelry, Founder & Co-Designer
Exhibitions
Einzelausstellungen
2019
one artist show, Art Karlsruhe, DavisKlemmGallery, Karlsruhe
2019
Zwischenspiel (Ausstellung mit Andrea Zaumseil), Kunstverein Reutlingen, Reutlingen
2018
Bit by bit, Radius Gallery, Santa Cruz,CA
2018
Skulpturenplatz Art Karlsruhe, DavisKlemmGallery, Karlsruhe
2018
sculpture, DavisKlemmGallery, Wiesbaden
2017
Orbits, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland. Oregon
2017
ARTour2011, Musee Royal de Mariemont, Morlanwelz
2017
Incidence and pattern, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon
2016
Keramis-Centre de la Céramique, La Louvière
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
2007
New Work, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago,IL
2007
CYCLE, Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD
2007
Meander, University of Oklahoma, Stillwater, OK
2006
Shift, PDX CONTEMPORARY ART, Portland; OR
2006
Installations, Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY
2006
Topologies, Braunstein Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006
Gail Severn Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
2006
Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
2005
Up/Down/Around, Gallery 555 with the Oakland Museum of California at City Center, Oakland
2005
Slow Time/ Play Time, The Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
2005
Structures, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
2003
Arcs in Time, Montalvo Gallery, Saratoga, CA
2003
Curves, PDX CONTEMPORARY ART, Portland, OR
2003
Random Encounters, Installation, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
2003
Yellow, Braunstein/ Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003
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
2000
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
University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
Gruppenausstellungen
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
2016
Spectrum: Contemporary Artists in Color, Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wi
2016
Fired Up: Monumental Clay, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
2016
Fine Craft Invitational, The Foothills Art Center, Golden,CO
2010
Excessive Obsession, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
2010
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
2006
Multiplicity: Contemporary Ceeramic Sculpture, Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts, University of Texas, El Paso,TX
2006
Arts Botanica, Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago,IL
2006
Gail Severn Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
2005
Tales from the Kiln, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
2005
NEXT, PDX CONTEMPORARY ART, Portland, OR
2005
Jerry Bennett and Bean Finneran: Pushing the Limits, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
2005
3rd World Ceramics Bienniale, World Ceramic Exposition Foundation, Incheon
2005
From Tiles to Totems: A Century of Northern California Ceramics, Art Foundry, Sacramento,CA
2005
Today`s Voice: Exploring Alternative Applications, Neuhoff Gallery, New York, NY
2005
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
2004
Critical Mass, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
2004
Black & White, Linda Ross Contemporary, Detroit,MI
2004
Pucini Lubel Gallery, Seattle, WA
2004
Susan Street Fine Arts Gallery, Solano Beach,CA
2004
Chaos/Control, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago,IL
2004
Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum,ID
2004
Summer Group Show, PDX CONTEMPORARY ART, Portland, OR
2004
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
2003
San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
2003
Small Works, Kemper Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
2002
Conceptual Color, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz,CA
2002
New Space, New Work, Braunstein/ Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002
Scripps 58th Ceramic Annual, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
2001
Conceptual Color, San Francisco State University Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001
PDX CONTEMPORARY ART, Portland, OR
1998
Landscape as Memory, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997
Ceramics Annual, John Natsoulis Gallery, Davis,CA
Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT
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