The Erin Pearson Collection

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Kenneth Beck

The Work

A weathered, well-loved electric guitar body, its original sunburst red-and-black finish left visibly aged and worn, painted over with a loose, gestural figure in sky blue and cream — abstracted curves and looping linework that read as a face and form emerging from the instrument itself. The scars and wear of the guitar's former life are left exposed rather than concealed, folded into the composition.

Year
2016
Medium
Mixed media on electric guitar body
Image size
350 mm x 480 mm
Framed size
Unframed — painted electric guitar body, wall mounted
Catalogue
0057

Provenance

I bought this piece from Kenneth in the same way as "Elephant in the Room" — at one of his exhibitions, buying directly to support an artist I'd worked with and believed in.

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About Kenneth Beck

Kenneth Beck is a Brisbane-based artist working across drawing, painting, and digital media, exploring the way people interact within the urban spaces they inhabit — how society connects and alienates at the same time, and how nature is nurtured or neglected around it. His mark-making shifts between digital and organic methods depending on the subject, and his richly textured, richly pigmented work often turns everyday objects and moments — a queue at a café, the chaos of live music, a quiet contemplative scene — into something viewers can't help but read a little of themselves into. His colour sensibility sits in the colourfield tradition of artists like Rothko, Frankenthaler, and Rauschenberg. Music is a major part of Kenneth's own life — he's a guitarist himself, often sharing riffs and licks on Instagram — and that connection runs directly through this piece, painted onto the body of an old, well-used electric guitar.