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Bean Finneran: Curves, Cones, and Rings
Bean Finneran: Curves, Cones, and Rings presents site-specific sculptures, each constructed with the artist鈥檚 established technique of easing and entwining together thousands of thin, ceramic forms she calls curves.
In her California studio, Finneran handmakes hundreds-of-thousands of curves by rolling clay coils, then shaping, smoothing, firing, glazing, and firing them again. When gently positioned and layered directly on the floor, they create large, nest-like structures the artist terms floor cones and floral rings. The cones and rings gain structural integrity from each small curve鈥檚 relationship to its neighbor, suggesting the interconnectedness of nature, Finneran鈥檚 ultimate inspiration. Each curve is unique unto itself 鈥� like snowflakes and blades of grass 鈥� no two are the same. The sculptures emphasize the power of our natural world. While each tiny part appears delicate and fragile on its own, the communal whole is durable and strong.
The artist鈥檚 time-intensive installation method recalls her years of touring in theater. 鈥淏oth are about arriving in an empty space and putting something together in a limited period of time鈥� in both, you have a sense that you鈥檙e not totally in control. I think that鈥檚 a wonderful thing.鈥� Like performance art, her sculptures are impermanent 鈥� only existing once before being returned to their elemental curves, destined to become new sculptural forms in the future.
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Bean Finneran: Curves, Cones, and Rings presents site-specific sculptures, each constructed with the artist鈥檚 established technique of easing and entwining together thousands of thin, ceramic forms she calls curves.
In her California studio, Finneran handmakes hundreds-of-thousands of curves by rolling clay coils, then shaping, smoothing, firing, glazing, and firing them again. When gently positioned and layered directly on the floor, they create large, nest-like structures the artist terms floor cones and floral rings. The cones and rings gain structural integrity from each small curve鈥檚 relationship to its neighbor, suggesting the interconnectedness of nature, Finneran鈥檚 ultimate inspiration. Each curve is unique unto itself 鈥� like snowflakes and blades of grass 鈥� no two are the same. The sculptures emphasize the power of our natural world. While each tiny part appears delicate and fragile on its own, the communal whole is durable and strong.
The artist鈥檚 time-intensive installation method recalls her years of touring in theater. 鈥淏oth are about arriving in an empty space and putting something together in a limited period of time鈥� in both, you have a sense that you鈥檙e not totally in control. I think that鈥檚 a wonderful thing.鈥� Like performance art, her sculptures are impermanent 鈥� only existing once before being returned to their elemental curves, destined to become new sculptural forms in the future.
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