Author: Ken Boe
Pritchard Gallery
(PPPP) The Player-Piano-Paper-Pieces
Sense of Place
63C Brewery Gulch
Old Bisbee, AZ
413-667-8760
February 1-29, 2020
Reception: Sat. Feb. 8, 5-9pm, with works on piano by Bisbee composer Keyth Neso from 6-9pm
Bisbee painter and poet Ken Boe and his brother Eric Carroll Ross Smith have teamed up to delve deep into a unique art project using old player piano paper rolls, bee’s wax, tree resins and other materials of painting and collage to make some subtle but cool little artworks.
Multiple Works at the 10th Miami Loco Arts Festival
I enjoyed our exhibition at The Fitzpatrick Building Art Space with the sublime painter Sergio Lepore, sound sculptures by Victor Alexander (seen above performing at the show with Butoh Sonics,) an awe-inspiring reading by Brian Smith from his book Tucson Salvage,
Bisbee 17
This fiction, however, was allegorical (a piece of story that is metaphorical of a larger message) which was pertinent, suggesting a hidden violence to The Bisbee Deportation of 1917 we will never fully be able to measure.
Realism is a construction of tropes regardless of it’s con.
Cattle Iron Branded Raw Cotton on Plaster, Ultra-Violet and Glow-In-The-Dark Pigments, and Wax. On View at David Kachel Photography 2 Naco Rd. Bisbee, Arizona next to old Lyric Theater.
Purchase this diptych of 3 Blacklight and Glow-In-The-Dark paintings at the David Kachel Gallery, 2 Naco Road Bisbee, Arizona 85603. Other experimental paintings of mine are there, yet quite in contrast to David’s masterworks of PHOTOGRAVURE!
Getting Poetry in Bisbee
GETTING POETRY IN BISBEE
IS BACK FOR A SECOND ROUND OF THOUGHTS, ARTISTRY, AND REAL POETRY FUN. GREAT RADIO!
by Chuck Alton,
Host Ken Boe (center) is joined by fellow poets Meg Porter, and Ramzi Masarweh, both with backgrounds in the Middle East. Learn about them, they’ve lived interesting lives, hear them “read”, and enjoy the banter among friends who appreciate and learn from each other.
Purchase original Ken Boe artworks through “donation”
Ultraviolet encaustic paintings still available:
As an artist I see myself as indefinitely experimental, a gatherer of techniques, methods, ideas that I have gained from that experimenting; building an ever increasing range of style which is designed to hopefully add to the creativity of those exposed to my work.
My linguistic philosophy of art is that the environment we share is the language we share,