"My Swanee Friends Were Always True" mixed media player-piano-series painting by Ken Boe
8” x 8” mixed media on panel. Watercolor, collage, wax and damar resin. Work incorporates player piano paper with lyrics. From artist Ken Boe.
ABOUT KEN
Bisbee, Arizona painter and poet Ken Boe has delved deep into a unique art project using old player piano paper scrolls, bee’s wax, tree resin and other materials and techniques of painting and collage to make some subtle but cool artworks. He calls them Player-Piano-Paper-Pieces. The 100+ year old piano paper is rendered semi-transparent, along with old 1940’s catalog page imagery. The song lyric fonts and note perforations on the piano scroll, and other symbolism, are a lot of the fun of looking at them and gathering meaning. A signature style has been born of these techniques , both original and historical, which are part of a larger vocabulary of techniques such as painting with whips, found object assemblage, and his work as a writer, which comprise his career.
8” x 8” mixed media on panel. Watercolor, collage, wax and damar resin. Work incorporates player piano paper with lyrics. From artist Ken Boe.
ABOUT KEN
Bisbee, Arizona painter and poet Ken Boe has delved deep into a unique art project using old player piano paper scrolls, bee’s wax, tree resin and other materials and techniques of painting and collage to make some subtle but cool artworks. He calls them Player-Piano-Paper-Pieces. The 100+ year old piano paper is rendered semi-transparent, along with old 1940’s catalog page imagery. The song lyric fonts and note perforations on the piano scroll, and other symbolism, are a lot of the fun of looking at them and gathering meaning. A signature style has been born of these techniques , both original and historical, which are part of a larger vocabulary of techniques such as painting with whips, found object assemblage, and his work as a writer, which comprise his career.
8” x 8” mixed media on panel. Watercolor, collage, wax and damar resin. Work incorporates player piano paper with lyrics. From artist Ken Boe.
ABOUT KEN
Bisbee, Arizona painter and poet Ken Boe has delved deep into a unique art project using old player piano paper scrolls, bee’s wax, tree resin and other materials and techniques of painting and collage to make some subtle but cool artworks. He calls them Player-Piano-Paper-Pieces. The 100+ year old piano paper is rendered semi-transparent, along with old 1940’s catalog page imagery. The song lyric fonts and note perforations on the piano scroll, and other symbolism, are a lot of the fun of looking at them and gathering meaning. A signature style has been born of these techniques , both original and historical, which are part of a larger vocabulary of techniques such as painting with whips, found object assemblage, and his work as a writer, which comprise his career.
