Ross Palmer Beecher | The Great Film Directors

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



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.




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.




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.




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.




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.




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.




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.




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.




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.




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.




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.




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.




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.




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.




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.




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: