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Ross Palmer Beecher: Americana
The Hallie Ford Museum of Art Willamette University, Salem, Oregon
Through July 31, 2011
See her interview online
Installation views of 2011 Ross Palmer Beecher: Americana at The Hallie Ford Museum
UNTITLED (Log Cabin Quilt with red buttons and tin flowers), 2011
Wired and folded License plates,tin,beads, buttons and f/o
53 x 34.5 inches
$10,000
SOLD
PEANUTS QUILT, 2010
Woven metal and found objects
77.5 X 43.5
$8,500
PHILIP GUSTON QUILT, 2005
Mixed media and found objects, 45 x 25.5 x 2 inches
$5,000.
LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE, 2003
Mixed media and found objects
31 x 27.5 inches
$6,000.
ENIGMA QUILT, 2002
Wire-stitched metal, paint, wood, costume jewelry and found objects
48 x 72 x 3 inches
$9,500.
Ross Palmer Beecher's eighth one-person exhibition at the Greg Kucera Gallery included new work inspired by the American folk-art traditions of quilting, flag-making, bricolage and primitive portraiture. Beecher is not a "Folk" artist, but she is endlessly fascinated by the many forms it can take, the contexts surrounding its production, and the complete devotion to a given craft that Folk artists bring to their work. Beecher filters these traditions in making her contemporary objects. Beecher embraces her New England roots while her contemporary observations of the world are revealed through a wide variety of political and topical themes executed in her own peculiar brand of Yankee ingenuity.
QUEENS II, 1999
Oil paint, linen, postage stamps and embroidery floss, 29.5 x 23 inches
$4,000.
BOX SPRING QUILT, 1992
Woven metal and found objects, 23 x 28 x 4 inches
$3,000.
CANDY COBWEB QUILT, 2003 (two views above)
Wire-stitched metal, paint wood, costume jewelry and found objects
35 x 35.5 x 3 inches $5,000.
ON HOLD
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7-UP QUILT, 1988
Woven metal and found objects, 72 x 54 inches
$9,000.
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