Ross Palmer Beecher

Quilts and Assemblages

Dates July 7 - August 20, 2022)

Opening Reception: “First Thursday,” July 7, 6-8pm
Artist talk: “Saturday After”, July 9 at noon

Greg Kucera Gallery is pleased to present our eleventh one-person exhibition of work by Seattle artist Ross Palmer Beecher.

While not a Folk artist, Beecher 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 and self-taught artists bring to their work. Using a variety of primarily recycled materials the artist filters these traditions in making her contemporary objects. She embraces her New England roots while her observations of the world we live in today are revealed through a wide variety of political and personal themes executed in her own particular brand of Yankee ingenuity.

The artist’s quilts and sculptures are made of tin cans, uniforms, aluminum pop cans, assorted metal containers, and musical instruments. Using well-known American designs for quilting, Beecher uses the printed information on metal in the same way that traditional quilters use patterned fabrics. The pieces are cut out with tin snips, stitched together with wire and hand cut staples, and combined with other found objects.

“Drawing, painting, and block printing have always been part of my tool box but it is my metal quilts that push me beyond my edge to a place of new possibilities and the hope of innovation.

My bridge moment into making metal quilts happened when I moved to the west coast. I saw a portrait of Our Lady of Guadalupe framed in metal AA battery casings. Connecting readily available free recycled material and the environmental benefit of reusing it in my art, made my heart pound.”

— Ross Palmer Beecher

Work in exhibition