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Emily Schnellbacher Bean
Emily Schnellbacher Bean
Sculpture
Emily Schnellbacher Bean is a soft-sculpture and installation artist with a penchant for process, a passion for color, and a fetish for fabric. She references forms and elements drawn from the natural world and the human body, each of which interming...Read More
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Oceans Within
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Tiny Universe
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Fall
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Renewal
$1,80026"H X 23"W X 6"D -
Making Space for Air
$1,60015"H X 18"W X 5"D -
Devil’s Ivy
$1,80021"H X 16"W X 10"D -
Beginning Bones
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Resplendent
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No More Night
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Kaleidoscope
$1,50040"H X 30"W X 6"D
STATEMENT
Emily Schnellbacher Bean is a soft-sculpture and installation artist with a penchant for process, a passion for color, and a fetish for fabric. She references forms and elements drawn from the natural world and the human body, each of which intermingles throughout her work creating playful moments of abstraction. Bean uses the supple physicality of the media and a bright palette to compose playful assemblages that are jovial while hinting at an underlying nostalgia for adolescence and warm sun-soaked days. Her process of sewing and handling repeated forms, each rendered in painstaking detail, reflects a meditative and craft-oriented approach to art-making.
BIO
Emily Schnellbacher Bean earned her BFA from Herron School of Art and Design in Indianapolis, IN with a focus on painting, art history, and psychology and an MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, PA with an emphasis on mixed-media. All play an important role in her practice today. She also teaches workshops and exhibits regularly in both group and solo shows; recent venues include N’namdi Center for Contemporary Art (Detroit, MI), Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI), The Governor's Island Art Fair (New York, NY), and The Philadelphia Sculpture Gym (Philadelphia, PA). Bean currently lives and works in Oak Park, MI.
EXHIBITIONS/SHOWS/COMMISSIONS
Solo Exhibitions & Projects;
2018 - Making Space Artist in Residence, Eileen Fisher, Troy, MI
2018 - Tiny Universe, Aquarium Gallery, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI
2015 - reCreate Featured Artist, Resource Exchange, Philadelphia, PA
2014 - One Thread Within a Woven Web, Haas Gallery, Bloomsburg, PA
2010 - Anthropomorphism, Hank and Dolly Gallery, Harrison Center, Indianapolis, IN
Selected Group Exhibitions;
2021 - Textiles, Juried by Tamara Kostianovsky, The In Art Gallery, theinartgallery.com
2021 - 4th Midwest Open, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2019 - Hatchback 13, Hatch Art Gallery, Hamtramck, MI
2018 - Heat Wave, 117 Gallery, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI
2018 - Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series Detroit Semifinalist Exhibit, N’namdi Center, Detroit, MI
2018 - Women, Risker Gallery, Carr Center, Detroit, MI
2017 - Soft Angles, Articipate Gallery, Berkley, MI
2016 - Inside Out, Carver Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2016 - 9th Annual Governors Island Art Fair, Governors Island, New York Harbor, NY
2016 - Multiples, Sculpture Gym, Philadelphia, PA
2015 - Creative Climate Awards, Human Impact Institute, New York, NY
2015 - 74th Juried Annual Exhibition, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2015 - Impossible Instructions, Sculpture Gym, Philadelphia, PA
2014 - Escape the Night, Pterodactyl Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2014 - Benefit Exhibition for Ballet X, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2014 - Fluid, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, New York, NY
2013 - Learn. Make. Inspire., 3rd Ward Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
2013 - The International Textile Show, The Art Factory, Paterson, NJ
2013 - Global Conscious, Local Artists, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2013 - Annual Student Exhibition, PAFA, Philadelphia, PA
2012 - Toys, Invitational Group Show, Primary Colors Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
2011 - Wearable Art, Midwest Fashion Week, Gallery 924, Indianapolis, IN
2010 - Rites of Passage, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2009 - Visual Fringe, Earth House Collective, Indianapolis, IN
EDUCATION
2013 MFA in Visual arts from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
2011 BFA in Painting, Minors in Art History and Psychology from Herron School of Art
AWARDS/DISTINCTIONS
2013 - Finalist in Fleisher Art Memorial 36th Wind Challenge Exhibition Series
2011- Mildred Darby Menz Award Nominee
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2020 - Juror for the Holocaust Memorial Center’s K-12 Art & Writing Competition, Farmington Hills, MI
2019 - Felt Succulent Workshop Instructor, Winter Camp, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI
2018 - Soft Sculpture Workshop Instructor, Eileen Fisher, Troy, MI
2016 - Soft Sculpture Workshop Instructor, Park Towne Place and Inliquid, Philadelphia, PA
2015 - Eco Soft Sculpture Workshop Instructor, Resource Exchange, Philadelphia, PA
2015 - Juror for the Carver Center Visual Arts Auditions, Towson, MD
2013 - Secretary for the Women’s Caucus for Art Philadelphia Chapter
2011-13 - Gallery Assistant at PAFA Alumni Sales Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2012-14 - Artist Assistant for Barbara Schaff and Tish Ingersoll, Philadelphia, PA
2012 - Summer Intern at City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, Philadelphia, PA
2012 - Teaching Assistant at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2010-11 - Art Recovery Technician for Art Recovery Technologies, Indianapolis, IN
2010 - Volunteer Installation Artist for Tara Donovan’s “Untitled” Exhibition, Indianapolis Museum of Art
ARTIST'S TAGS
Soft-sculpture artist, installation art, fabric sculpture, fiber art, Michigan artist, nature art, anatomical art