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Yellow Cone (14,000 curves)
2005
in. (cm)
Bean Finneran (Cleveland, Ohio, 1947 - )
Local Color, July 26, 2012 - January 13, 2013, New Wing, Second Floor, Central Skylight and South Metro A Galleries, San José Museum of Art.
Variations on a Theme, May 23, 2009 - February 7, 2010, New Wing, Second Floor, Central Skylight Gallery, San José Museum of Art. (Included in Part II: August 1, 2009-February 7, 2010.)
Tales from the Kiln: Contemporary Ceramics, September 1, 2005 – July 9, 2006
New Wing, Second Floor, North Gallery, San José Museum of Art.
Local Color (2012-2013)
Bean Finneran’s installation-based ceramic sculptures evoke colorful, vibrant organic forms. For several years, Finneran has been working with a single, graceful form: “a curve [that] is a meditation upon multiplicity in nature.” Yellow Cone (14,000curves) is constructed of more than fourteen thousand hand-rolled clay rods. The form suggests a haystack, beehive, or pine tree, but Finneran’s inspiration comes more from the idea of nature than any specific features. Instead, she explained: “the many thousands of individual elements in each piece are not physically connected as another reflection of the natural process...with its deliberately un-natural color, the work celebrates aspects of nature, but does not attempt to mimic it.” For Finneran, her time-consuming process of hand-rolling, glazing, and then carefully placing each component curve (she relies on gravity instead of adhesives to maintain the conelike form), celebrates color and art-making itself.
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Yellow Cone (14,000 curves)
Sculpture
2005in. (cm)
Bean Finneran (Cleveland, Ohio, 1947 - )
Object Type: Sculpture
Medium and Support: Ceramic with glaze
Credit Line: Museum purchase with funds contributed by William and Barbara Hyland, Monterey, CA
Accession Number: 2005.23.01
Exhibition
Local Color, July 26, 2012 - January 13, 2013, New Wing, Second Floor, Central Skylight and South Metro A Galleries, San José Museum of Art.
Variations on a Theme, May 23, 2009 - February 7, 2010, New Wing, Second Floor, Central Skylight Gallery, San José Museum of Art. (Included in Part II: August 1, 2009-February 7, 2010.)
Tales from the Kiln: Contemporary Ceramics, September 1, 2005 – July 9, 2006
New Wing, Second Floor, North Gallery, San José Museum of Art.
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Local Color (2012-2013)
Bean Finneran’s installation-based ceramic sculptures evoke colorful, vibrant organic forms. For several years, Finneran has been working with a single, graceful form: “a curve [that] is a meditation upon multiplicity in nature.” Yellow Cone (14,000curves) is constructed of more than fourteen thousand hand-rolled clay rods. The form suggests a haystack, beehive, or pine tree, but Finneran’s inspiration comes more from the idea of nature than any specific features. Instead, she explained: “the many thousands of individual elements in each piece are not physically connected as another reflection of the natural process...with its deliberately un-natural color, the work celebrates aspects of nature, but does not attempt to mimic it.” For Finneran, her time-consuming process of hand-rolling, glazing, and then carefully placing each component curve (she relies on gravity instead of adhesives to maintain the conelike form), celebrates color and art-making itself.
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This object was included in the following exhibitions: - Variations on a Theme San Jose Museum of Art , 5/23/2009 - 2/7/2010
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