Bean Finneran's exhibition Curves, Cones, and Rings just opened at the Boise Art Museum May 10, 2025.
"Bean Finneran: Curves, Cones, and Rings presents site-specific sculptures, each constructed with the artist’s 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’s relationship to its neighbor, suggesting the interconnectedness of nature, Finneran’s ultimate inspiration. Each curve is unique unto itself — like snowflakes and blades of grass — 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."
Bean Finneran: Curves, Cones, and Rings
May 10 – December 28, 2025
Boise Art Museum , 670 Julia Davis Drive, Boise, Idaho 83702https://boiseartmuseum.org/exhibition/bean-finneran-curves-cones-and-rings/