Bennett Bean
Blairstown, NJ United States
07825
Profile Type: artist
Bennett Bean is a quintessential American polymath. Although he is best known as a ceramic artist for his treatment of vessels post firing, he works in a range of media including stone, precious metals, wool and silk weaving, paper, painting, and, most recently, metal sculpture. The scale of these new pieces ranges from tabletop to large-scale architectural installation. He has been working full time in his studio for the last twenty-five years. His work is represented by numerous galleries as well as in major museum collections nationwide, including the Whitney Museum of American Art and the White House Art Collection.