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Featured Artists

Emily Schnellbacher Bean and Justin Bean

Morphology and Geometry 

In Morphology and Geometry, artists and married couple Emily Schnellbacher Bean and Justin Kingsley Bean exhibit the work of their distinct practices, creating a unique dialogue between seemingly disparate visual languages.

Emily’s colorful, inviting soft sculptures draw inspiration from organic and anatomical forms, embracing the shifting, evolving qualities of biological morphology and inviting tactile engagement that offers a new perspective on familiar materials. Justin’s vibrantly-colored abstract geometric paintings feature intricate, hard-edged compositions that examine the networks and infrastructures that shape our world. Using abstract symbols, grids, and patterns, he crafts a visual language that reflects his subjective experience of the techno-cultural present. 

Together, their work bridges the natural and the constructed, fluidity and form, inviting viewers into a space where transformation and structure converge, and where contrasting approaches to art-making unexpectedly harmonize.

About the Artists:

Emily Schnellbacher Bean
Born in Littleton, CO, and raised in Indianapolis, IN, Emily Schnellbacher Bean earned a BFA in Painting with minors in Art History and Psychology from Herron School of Art and Design in 2011. She pursued an MFA in Visual Arts at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 2013, where she transitioned her focus from painting to soft-sculpture and installation. Since 2017, she has lived and worked in Metro Detroit, maintaining a steady studio practice and actively exhibiting.

Justin Kingsley Bean
Justin Kingsley Bean (b. 1985, Detroit, MI) is a painter living and working in Oak Park, Michigan. He received his MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, PA and a BA in Anthropology from the University of Michigan. His paintings are in private collections across the United States and have been exhibited in galleries and venues such as the Esther M. Klein Gallery, Automat Gallery, Urban Outfitters’ corporate headquarters, Whitdel Arts, and the Ann Arbor Art Center. Justin currently has a painting on loan to the United States Embassy in Yaounde, Cameroon through the Art in Embassies program. 

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