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Beecher's constructions and format reflect equipment used in film: cameras, viewfinders, and even the film itself. The piece titled "Tim Burton" below) features Burton's face in a space between two film canisters, as though being unrolled: Burton's face appears as it would on a filmstrip. In "Andy Warhol," Warhol's face appears only after one lifts the "camera" front, the piece constructed out of sewn metal and hinge: Allen is inside the camera, much like Allen is the subject of all of his films.
- Text courtesy of Bank of America Gallery
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Salvador Dali, 2000 Oil, aluminum, tin, wire, parts of 8mm and snapshot cameras, beads, various found objects
17.5 x 13.5 x 3 inches, $2,700.
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Walt Disney, 2000
Oil, aluminum, dartboard, tin, wire, parts of 8mm and snapshot cameras, beads, various found objects 17 x 39 x 3 inches $3,500.
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Frederico Fellini, 2000
Oil, aluminum, tin, wire, parts of 8mm and snapshot cameras, beads, various found objects
12 x 10 x 13 inches, $2,000.
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Orson Welles, 2000
Oil, aluminum, tin, wire, parts of 8mm and snapshot cameras, beads, various found objects
15.5 x 10.5 x 12 inches, $2,000.
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David Lynch, 1999
Oil, aluminum, suede sewn into ear shape, tin, wire, parts of 8mm and snapshot cameras and beads
9 x 11.5 x 12 inches, $2,000.
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Woody Allen, 2000
Oil, aluminum, tin, wire, parts of 8mm and snapshot cameras, beads, various found objects
11 x 11 x 13 inches, $2,000.
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Tim Burton, 2000 Oil, aluminum, tin, wire, parts of 8mm and snapshot cameras, beads, various found objects
9 x 24.5 x 13 inches, $2,000.
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Francis Ford Coppola, 2000
Oil, aluminum, tin, wire, parts of 8mm and snapshot cameras, beads, various found objects
11 x 11 x 13 inches, $2,000.
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Stanley Kubrick, 1999
Oil, aluminum, tin, wire, parts of 8mm and snapshot cameras, beads, various found objects
11 x 10 x 12 inches, $2,000.
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Fritz Lang, 2000
Oil, aluminum, tin, wire, parts of 8mm and snapshot cameras, beads, various found objects
14.5 x 14 x 13 inches, $2,000.
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Leni Riefenstahl (No. I), 1999
Oil, aluminum, tin, wire, parts of 8mm and snapshot cameras and beads
11 x 11 x 12.5 inches, $2,000.
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Erich Von Stroheim, 1999
Oil, aluminum, tin, wire, parts of 8mm and snapshot cameras, beads, various found objects
13 x 9.5 x 12.5 inches, $2,000.
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Tod Browning, 2000
Oil, aluminum, tin, wire, parts of 8mm and snapshot cameras, beads, various found objects
15.5 x 34 x 3 inches, $3,500
The film can lid hinges open and shut.
It has "Freaks" hammered into the surface of the lid,
and when open, it reveals characters from Browning's movies.
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Alfred Hitchcock (films), 2000
Oil, aluminum, tin, wire, parts of 8mm and snapshot cameras, beads, various found objects
28.5 x 31 x 3 inches, $3,500.
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Leni Riefenstahl (NO. II), 2000
Oil, aluminum, tin, wire, parts of 8mm and snapshot cameras and beads
17 x 46.5 x 3 inches, $3,500.
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Ed Wood, 2000
Oil, aluminum, tin, wire, parts of 8mm and snapshot
cameras, beads, various found objects
19 x 17.5 x 13 inches, $2,000.
A few installation views of these works:
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