Coincidence of Rhyme at The Gallery at 40 Main

Starting at 8PM, I’ll be performing 10 new poems experimenting with vowels and rhyme, consonants and alliteration, their random coincidences in experimental voice work by Kelly Owen, Carolyn Toronto’s, and myself, and their instruments of theremin and synthesizer at The Gallery at 40 Main, formerly the Thamm Gallery. Traffic has resumed both ways, the Bisbee After 5 Art Walk has resumed.

*A number of other artists are also on display at 40 Main, including my work this poster is a detail from. — Ken Boe

Reception at Historic Thamm Gallery

The new show is up at Forty Main Bisbee…Historic Thamm Gallery. “Beloved” I like what Nohava has done with these four pieces of mine in her curation of it. They’re encaustic gesso-grosso, some assemblage and some oil. I’ll be hybridizing all my different techniques and series over the next few years. Reception 01/20/24, 5pm. The show will run 3 months but I’m doing replacement pieces in case anything sells, and you can take it with you. Plus a couple other bonus pieces of mine to see of advanced Player-Piano-Paper-Pieces.

Poetry Reading at Historic Thamm Gallery

This Friday night 12/29/23 let’s see what time the sun goes down with some live poetry and sound. I’ll be reading with some Bisbee artists and I have artwork in the gallery myself on the magic door. Arrive while there’s still some light to get a seat and refreshments: 40 Main Street Bisbee AZ

Blackhole Collage at Artist Abbey

Blackhole Collage: Player-Piano-Paper-Pieces
Dec. 9–Jan.30, 2024 by appointment or during Abbey events

Ken Boe will also be arriving in Truth or Consequences NM on February 23rd by Limousine with the Bisbee Invasion coming from The Hitching Post on one of their journeys spreading Bisbee music (and in my case also poetry.)

Poetry and Prose Reading – Copper Queen Library Program

The Re-Make Show at Central School Project

My piece titled Approaching Noon, for the Re-Make show at Central School Project. Medium: found deserted plywood, crayons recycled from Yellowstone restaurants, found objects, and oil paints. Fernando Serrano, photo credit.

The Re-Make Show at Central School Project in old Bisbee, continues through December 3, 2023, weekends only 11am–4pm. 43 Howell Ave, Bisbee, AZ 85603.

Experimental Poet and more

W. David Oliphant will be responding to my spoken word inflections, meanings, and cadences with his building sound language where every key on his keyboards are differently constructed phonemes from which he’ll compose live throughout the readings, and in-between the readings. I’ll be reading and vocalizing the full lyric sequence poems from the Tatterdemalion Daydream manuscript as never heard before, plus a series of other works, and many newer poems.

I’m also in a couple group art shows this weekend:

The Re-Make Show at Central School Project in old Bisbee, with my hyper-object abstract landscape painting of found materials, including a pine resin crayon encaustic medium from crayons recycled from the restaurants of Yellowstone National Park, found desert-weathered plywood, old pull-top cans from a local field from years of someone’s consistent habit of beer drinking.

Reception Friday night 11/17/23 6-9pm.

Open weekends 11-4 through December 3rd.

43 Howell Ave, Bisbee, AZ 85603

(I’ll also have a small piece in the Erotic Art Show at The Bisbee Quarry in Brewery Gulch Saturday the 18th beginning at 7pm. A ticketed burlesque show follows.)

Ken Boe LIVE at The Pythian Castle

The Pythian Castle
29OK Street in Old Bisbee
Wednesday August 30, 2023, at 7pm

Ken Boe live at The Pythian Castle at 29 OK Street In Old Bisbee with music and voice by Carolyn Toronto’s and guest performer Tamela Turtle who will also be doing her own set; paintings by Tucson artist Matt Cotton and Bisbee artist Douglas Weber; singer songwriter Gerry Butterwick, and hosted by fiction writer and poet Leah Mueller. I’ll be doing a reading of poems written or arranged with Carolyn Toronto’s just for this event.

Player-Piano-Paper-Pieces at Changing Hands Bookstore In The Newton

The Player-Piano-Paper-Pieces
Collage paintings by Ken Boe
Closing reception: Sunday, August 13th, 2023, 5–7pm
Changing Hands Bookstore In The Newton
300 W Camelback Rd Ste 1, Phoenix, AZ

Come join me and the crew for the closing reception of my art exhibition at Changing Hands Bookstore In The Newton at the Phoenix Location! These are the Pieces where I turn the paper transparent so that the automatic drawing images come through, while still retaining their text, texture and context — kind of like cut-up poetry meets painting(they used to stand around the piano singing a hundred years ago, which this paper is even older than, mounted on panel.) And I will update everyone on my new art theory project Alien Aesthetics, and do a short reading of some of my best poems.

5 Roads at JH Coates Gallery

The 5 Roads exhibition has been extended to September 9, 2023 for a Closing Reception from 1-4pm. Refreshments served, meet the artists Frank Balaam, Ken Boe, Jim Coates, Lob Instagon, and Sergio Lapore, with music provided by Courtney Odom and Douglas Berry. Open until then through regular weekend hours of Saturday and Sunday 9am-4pm.

Visit the show at the Studio Cafe’s JH Coates Gallery to see and pose in front of your Seraphic Wings (4 ft x 10 ft, oil and gesso grosso whip painting on canvas, diptych)! And learn about this amazing mix of Arizona Artists. Shown above: Michael Twenty-Three (1969-2023)