Ross Palmer Beecher
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Quilts
Flags
Assemblage
History
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
Prints
Beecher's prints are impressions taken from the artist's paintings on wood. She carves the wood block and then paints the image with enamel paint. With an image she particularly likes, Beecher will make state impressions when the blocks are carved but not painted. She generally will make these impressions as a way of cataloguing the image. Occasionally she will pull an edition, but usually these impressions are not editioned.
About
Exhibitions
Quilts, July 3 - August 23, 2014
Quilts and Presidential Portraits, May 1 - 31, 2003
The Great Film Directors, May 27 - June 15, 2000
Recent Work, February 5 - March 1, 1998
Anatomy Studies, May 4 - 28, 1995
Carved and Painted Assemblages, March 3 - April 3, 1994
Assemblage: Flags & Quilts, November 29 - December 23, 1990
Painted Assemblage, December 1 - 24, 1988
Paintings, Assemblages, September 3 - 27, 1987
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Born in 1957, Greenwich, CT. Resides in Seattle.
Beecher was born in Greenwich, Connecticut in 1957 and studied at the Rhode Island School of Design. She moved to Seattle in 1979 and has been represented by the Greg Kucera Gallery since 1984. Beecher has created public artworks for the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Vashon Island landfill, Lumen Field, and Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. She is the recipient of a Seattle Arts Commission’s Artist in the City Grant in 1995 and 1997. The artist is the recipient of the Seattle Art Museum’s 2002 Betty Bowen Artist Award. Beecher has work in the collection of Portland Art Museum, Seattle Art Museum, Tacoma Art Museum, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem, OR, and Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA.
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August 18, 2022
Crosscut
ArtSEA: Bird art for the dog days of Seattle summer
by Brangien Davis2021, Volume 31, No. 1
SAQA Journal
Ross Palmer Beecher: Slow, steady pace ensures inventive artwork
by ZJ HumbachFebruary 14th, 2018
Ganoskin
Ross Palmer Beecher
by Mathew KangasJanuary 13th, 2017
Seattle Art Museum Stories
Object of the Week: Martin Luther King
by Jeffery CarlsonOctober 12th, 2017
SAQA Art Quilt Quarterly #9
Material Matters: Quilts by Seattle Artist Ross Palmer Beecher
by Sandra SiderJuly 19th, 2014
Contemporary Quilt Art Association
Ross Palmer Beecher's "metal quilts and flags" fool the eye
by Donna DeshazoJuly-August 2014
Visual Art Source
Ross Palmer Beecher
by Mathew KangasApril 19, 2013
Washington State Arts Commission (ArtsWA)
Ross Palmer Beecher, artist of Washington State, American Masterworks series
Directed and edited by Virginia BogertOctober 4th, 2011
Art Beat, Seattle Office of Arts and Culture
Words are theme of city exhibition Word Play
by Tamara ChildressFebruary 1, 2010
City Arts Magazine
The Curator’s Eye
by the City Arts Magazine EditorsAugust 4th, 2004
Seattle PI
Harbor Steps may 'can' art-show piece for its political content
by Regina HackettMay 8th, 2003
Seattle PI
Satire Flies its Colors in Ross Palmer Beecher's Americana
by Judy WagonfeldSpring 1996, Vol 16, No 2
Metalsmith Magazine
Ross Palmer Beecher: Exploring American Myths
by Matthew Kangas
Oil paint on wire tin, aluminum and levels
35 x 35 inches
$7,000