Archived Exhibition
Bean Finneran | Topologies
October 18 – November 18, 2006
Reception: Saturday, October 21, 2006, 3:00 - 5:00 PM
Artist Biography

Bean Finneran creates a site-specific installation composed of ceramic curves, hand-glazed manufactured bricks, drawings, and C-prints.

Finneran's forms reflect the process of change and ordered chaos found in the marshland surrounding her home and throughout the natural world.  The intimate details of small ceramic curves and glazed bricks make these massive constructions possible, much as in nature thousands of living coral make-up a reef or a season's worth of hay a stack.  Finneran favors repetition in her work as a form of meditation, allowing the pieces to take on a natural shape where the whole becomes greater than the sum of its parts.

Bean Finneran's creative approach to ceramic sculpture has caught the attention of curators, architects, and collectors.  She has exhibited her work at Mills College in Oakland and Loyola University Art Museum in Chicago, Illinois. She has also exhibited at the World Ceramic Biennale, 2005 in Seoul, South Korea where she won a major prize and where her work now resides in the museum's permanent collection.  Other museums who have collected her work are the San Jose Museum of Art, the Kemper Museum in Kansas City, Missouri and the Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin.

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