Bean Finneran
Biography

Born
1947
Cleveland, OH

Education
Goucher College, Towson, MD
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
M.A., Museum School, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

Braunstein/Quay Exhibitions

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
Bean Finneran | Topologies | October 18 – November 18, 2006

2003
Bean Finneran | Yellow | January 14 - February 8, 2003

Solo Exhibitions

2007
Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD
Meander, University of Oklahoma, Stillwater, OK

2006
Topologies, Braunstein/Quay Gallery
Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY
SHIFT, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR

2005
Up/Down/Around, Gallery 555 with the Oakland Museum of California at City Center, Oakland, CA
Structures, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Slow Time / Play Time, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, Ca
Pacini Lubel Gallery, Seattle, WA

2003
Arcs in time, Villa Montalvo, Saratoga, CA
Random Encounters, Installation, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Yellow, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
The Character of Clay, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID

2002
Bean Finneran: Recurrence, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO

2000
Eyre/Moore Gallery, Seattle, WA
New Work, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1999
The 2nd Annual International Art Exposition, Installation, San Francisco, CA

1997
Davis Art Center, Installation, Davis, CA
Introductions, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Group Exhibitions

2007
Coming Attractions: Gallery Group Show, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA

2006-2007
Multiplicity: Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture, Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts, University of Texas at El Paso, Portland Art Center, Southwest School of Art and Craft, and Landmark Arts, Texas Tech University (through 2007)

2006
Gail Severn Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
Arts Botanica, Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago, IL

2005
Pushing the Limits, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
World Ceramic Biennale 2005, Icheon, Republic of Korea (special prize)

2005
From Tiles to Totems: a Century of Northern California Ceramics, Art Foundry, Sacramento, CA
Tales from The Kiln, San Jose Museum of Art
Today’s Voice: Exploring Alternative Applications, Neuhoff Gallery, New York, NY
NEXT, PDX Gallery, Portland, OR
Subtraction & Addition, Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco, CA
Pacini Lubel Gallery, Seattle, WA (3 person show)

2004
Critical Mass, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
Black and White, Linda Ross Contemporary, Detroit, MI
Susan Street Fine Arts Gallery, Solano Beach, CA
Chaos/Control, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
PDX Gallery, Portland, OR
A Rare Glimpse: Modern American Art from Private Napa Valley Collections, Napa Valley Museum, Napa, CA

2003
Branching 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
The Character of Clay, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID (2 person show with Jun Kaneko)

2002
Scripps 58th Ceramic Annual, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
Conceptual Color, San Francisco State University Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Santa Cruz Museum of History & Art, Santa Cruz, CA
PDX Gallery, Portland, OR
New Space, New Work, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Landscape as Memory, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1997
SOFA, Chicago, IL
Ceramics Annual, John Natsoulis Gallery, Davis, CA
ARTSHOW 1, Microsoft Art Collection, Seattle, WA

Collections

John Michael Kohler Arts Center
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
Microsoft Inc.
Mills College Art Museum. Oakland, CA
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

Selected Bibliography

Cash, Stephanie. “Report From San Francisco: Surviving and Thriving.” Art in America, November, 2002: 59-75.
Cohn, Terry. “Bean Finneran at Mills College Art Museum.” Artweek, April, 2005: 17.
Del Vecchio, Mark. Postmodern Ceramics. London: Thames and Hudson, 2001.
Ming, Bai. World Famous Ceramic Artist’s Studios 1: Volume of America (1). Hebei, China: Hebei Fine Arts Publishing House, 2005.
Schumachet, Mary Louise. “Cast in Clay: Artists Use Traditional Medium to Craft Engaging Tales.” The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2005.

Bean Finneran Biography