Bennett Bean is a ceramic artist whose painted and gilded pots are quintessential examples of three-dimensional surface design. Bean works with an accumulative process that involves fifteen steps. His vessels become little dramas - highly decorated surfaces performing risky but perfected arabesques, a tugging and shuffling that keep these objects even more intense and vibrant than they might at first appear.

Bean's work has been exhibited throughout the United States as well as internationally, and is represented in the collections of The Carnegie Museum, The Cincinnati Art Museum, the Milwaukee Art Museum, The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, The Newark Museum, The Royal Ontario Museum, The Renwick Gallery, The St. Louis Art Museum, and many others.