Technique As Style / Style As Theme / Theme As Evolution Through Variation

  • Paintings by Ken Boe, Feb. 3 – 24, 2022, Closing reception & Artist Talk Feb. 24, 2022, 4–6pm
  • Union Gallery, Cochise College Douglas Campus, Douglas AZ

You may visit my exhibition at The Union Gallery through next Thursday the 24th. Union Gallery is free and open to the public at the Student Union (Building #500) on the beautiful campus of Cochise College Douglas. In this show I look back on how messing around with your own techniques over time evolves into endless possibilities for creating original art of original style and intent.

(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

Ken Boe: Kissed, courtesy Arlene Purdy Collection

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.

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.

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,