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Kenny Cole
Snowball's Chance in Hell: Party2012screen print | edition of
1424" x 18"$250.00My favorite part of this print is thesentry guy
in the background left. Itwas from a logo on an old saferusting in
the yard behind my studio.
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Kenny Cole
Snowball's Chance in Hell: LobsterFork2012screen print | edition
of 1424" x 18"$250.00
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Kenny Cole
Snowball's Chance in Hell: Dinner2012screen print | edition of
1424" x 18"$250.00This guy was discovered on yourtypical pizza box
that was buried ina burn pile near Fish Beach.
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Kenny Cole
Triumvirate2012screen print | edition of 1318" x
24"$250.00$350.00 with FrameThe tourists on Monhegan come as
various types. There's theplein air painters, the older women and
couples absorbing therustic charm and the photographers (though
just about everyoneis a photographer), just to mention a few. But
the seriousphotographers have huge lenses! I was captivated by an
eveningsky and the crescent moon and at this point was beginning to
seeeverything as a potential screen print! This one involved
sometricky (for me!) transparent ink work, but I won't bore you
withthe details. Let's just say that after working out my
beautifulsunset and moon I just had to ruin it and "represent"
thecavalcade of monstrous cameras that are a constant sight,
whennature starts strutting her stuff.
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Kenny Cole
Men2012screen print17" x 14"$125.00
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Kenny Cole
Escape Vent2012screen print | edition of 17 prints18" x
24"$250.00After failing a bit with complex multi-color screen
prints, thenrelaxing with some one-color prints, I decided to try
my hand atanother complex print! I made a few big boo boos on this
one thatI probably should not advertise, but am finding that most
peopledon't mind them even after i point them out. For example, the
twobirds were originally identical, but I forgot to block out
thewhite for the bird on the right, or the left bird's lower
wing,when I printed the yellow. So far it's been a unanimous: "I
likethat"..."Breaks up the symmetry"..."Looks good!" So there is
alesson in the happy accident-prone nature of the medium!
InMonhegan the lobster people fish in the winter, so the traps
sitstacked all summer and of course birds love to nest in
them.These two are bobolinks, discovered in my encyclopedia set,
notin real life unfortunately, but I loved the stark, graphic
colorsand the expressive gesture or pose of the encyclopedia image,
sothat was a no brainer. As far as the text goes, yes, you
guessedit (did you?), it's biblical and I found it the way I
usuallyfind biblical verse, I just open the book randomly and
startreading. I could not believe it when I shortly stumbled upon
thiswhale and bird combo...particularly since those two elements
werealready in the print!
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Kenny Cole
Breach (magenta)2012screen print | edition of 25 prints24" x
18"$250.00I drank tap water for the most partwhile on my 5 week
artist'sresidency on Monhegan Island, Maine.I think that I might
have been theonly person there who did this! Iwas never warned
against drinkingthe tap water, but it certainly wasnot crystal
clear...and I think Isurvived. Meanwhile crates andcrates of
bottled water could beseen stacked in various places,often too
voluminous to make itinside the store or residence whereit would be
sold or consumed.Something seems wrong about this.Why have we
allowed ourselves to getto the point where we no longertrust the
water that comes out ofthe tap? Instead of addressing theproblem of
groundwatercontamination, it seems as though we
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just buy water and move on. Thisprint began as a sketch of an
oceansolid with gallon jugs of water,with a hiking shoe prancing
alongthe surface. I then thought ofexpanding it into a large print
oftwo figures, depicted as emptyoutdoor gear of course, and then
hadthe brilliant idea to depict a tunabreaching in the distance.
Thatmotif was a newly minted idea that Ihad gotten after talking
with a guydown at Fish Beach who worked for ashipping company that
transportslarge trucks around the Maineislands, usually for
constructionjobs. He had just seen a tuna breachearlier that day!
But it wasn'tuntil I had printed the first screenwith the jugs and
empty clothing andwas preparing to cut out the stencilfor the blue
water around the jugsthat I suddenly realized and sawthat I needed
also to cut twostencils for the transparent liquidfigures, who
would then marvel atthe sight of the tuna.
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Kenny Cole
Breach (blue)2012screen print | edition of 25 prints24" x
18"$250.00
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Kenny Cole
1000 Years (red)2012screen print | edition of 3417" x
14"$125.00This image started off as a morningsketch using imagery
found in my oldencyclopedia set. It's ChristopherColumbus and I
originally sketched himin outer space, with a space station inthe
background! As I turned to beginmaking this into a print, using
drawingfluid directly on the screen, I decidedto make him under
water, copying fromanother illustration in an encyclopedia,the
bubbles rising from a figure in anold fashioned diving suit. I
thenrecalled a conversation with Angela, alobster woman who came by
my open studioand relayed a description of what somescuba diving
friends of hers often seeon the bottom of the sea
aroundMonhegan...not too pretty! Thecomposition of this screen was
nowbeginning to come together, but myHorror Vacui was kicking in
and I needed
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something in the upper left. A long walkto lobster cove and back
allowed me toclear out the cobwebs, thinking aboutthe weight of
time and the 1000 yearpyramid weight was born!
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Kenny Cole
1000 Years (black)2012screen print | edition of 3417" x
14"$125.00
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Kenny Cole
Walk of Shame2012screen print | edition of 10 prints18" x
24"$250.00The main figure in this print is the Night Heron, which I
hadseen one evening while contemplating life down at Fish Beach.
Idid not know what kind of bird it was, but I knew it was not acrow
or a gull. Apparently Night Herons grow a couple of loosefeathers
on the back of their head in the spring, which helpedme later
identify it. This was one of those kind of important orexciting
events that become a little magnified when you arebasically alone
and have no one to talk to...you notice stuffaround you more than
usual. I knew that I wanted to depict thisevent or creature somehow
in a print, but I did not feel like itwas enough on its own to
warrant representation until a bitlater when I experienced
additional sightings of a differentnature and then a scene began to
coalesce in my brain. I hadwoken up very early one morning, around
5 am, the sun had beenup for a half hour or so and I was standing
at my window gazingout when I noticed a young woman trudging along,
doing a poorjob trying to keep her oversized sweat pants from
dropping tothe ground, cigarette in hand, thong clearly visible!
Afterrelaying this scene to a local, it was revealed to me that on
asmall island such as Monhegan, the early risers often witnessthe
“Walk of Shame”!
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Kenny Cole
Bedazzled2012screen print | edition of 16 prints18" x
24"$250.00I actually saw two minke whales one day while looking out
overthe sea from the cliffs at Burnt Head! On a separate day I
hadsimply noticed how the sea could sparkle. When I decided
tocreate this print I was itching to make a print that used
onlyblack and lots of it! So the shiny black whales were central
andit all just came together, the atomic explosion seemed to
somehowadd a bright (happy?!) if ominous brilliance to an
otherwisecolorless scene. And the two characters, who do happen to
workand/or live on Monhegan and who I saw fairly often, but did
notreally get a chance to know, felt like two nicely
contrasting"types", always with their heads adorned as they are
depictedhere.
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Kenny Cole
Winnie's Worry2012screen print | edition of 10 prints17" x
14"$125.00The title of this print is the namewritten on an old
fiberglass rowboatthat belonged to the Inn keeper's sonwhere I was
staying and was slowlyrotting away in the back yard. He toldme that
he had bought it when he wasjust a kid and of course it was
hismother's "worry" letting her young boyadventure out on the sea.
For me thisbecame a metaphor for the struggles oflife and the
dangers and trials ofgrowing up and navigating one's waythrough our
modern world into adulthood.I noticed, around the equipment
strewnyards outside my studio, severalmakeshift buoy-like
contraptions; bluestyrofoam all tied up, jury-riggedstyle, with odd
pieces of rope andplywood. They seemed perfect symbols tome, of
less than perfect lifestyles,struggling to prosper, survive,
stay
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afloat or even escape within theturbulence of our times.
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Kenny Cole
Prisoner2012screen print | edition of 20 prints14" x
17"$125.00Stay tuned for this print to hopefully expand into
multiplevertical triptychness. It's a prisoner enjoying a glass
ofwine in a cage in a cave, (kind of like a human lobster,enjoying
the trap bait but not cooked and dry and orange.)but I'd like to
also create more prints of what might existabove the cave, a
landscape possibly, and another print abovethat, sky, heaven, outer
space, another planet with anotherlandscape, with another
cave...you get the picture? And then,too, what about more prints
depicting that which is belowhim...?
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Kenny Cole
I Love Bacon (yellow)2012screen print | 17" x 14"$125.00
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Kenny Cole
I Love Bacon (tan)2012screen print17" x 14"$125.00
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Kenny Cole
I Love Bacon (gray)2012screen print | 17" x 14"$125.00
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Kenny Cole
Crow and Gull2012screen print | edition of 1024" x
18"$250.00This print was created using cutpaper stencils. It's
based on a walkto Fish Beach where I saw a crow anda gull facing
opposite directions onthe breakwater. It's about contrastand
contradictions and probably asmild an image as I'll ever make!
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Kenny Cole
Bait Barrels2012screen print | edition of 8 prints14" x
17"$125.00As winter turns to spring on Monhegan the work
oflobstering ends and the work of supplying tourists withwine
begins.
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Kenny Cole
Plein Airtripych2012screenprint |edition of5 prints72" x
18"$750.00These threeprintsessentiallycan be hungtogether asa
verticaltriptych.Notice howthe pantsare alignedwith thefour
hattedheads andthe laddercontinuesdown in tothe lowest
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print.Click onthe priceabove topurchaseall three.
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Kenny Cole
Plein Air Lesson2012screen print | edition of 17 prints24" x
18"$250.00This was another print created as anopportunity to make
something thatwas not too complicated in terms ofmultiple colors.
It turned out to bea little tricky for me just to getthe gray
registered good around thedrone. Here's the inspiration forthis
image:One morning I arrived at my studio tofind group of plein air
painterswatching their instructor demonstratesome painting
techniques. They weregathered just outside my windows andI found
myself checking the scene outfrom the inside, watching
theinstructor build his image up anddescribing his process, while
the"students" took copious notes.Everything was fine and
dandy...I'veenjoyed seeing all of the plein airpainters scattered
about trying to
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capture the beauty ofMonhegan...until the instructor beganto
explain how to add some color totheir lamp black when making
grays.Lamp Black?! You bastard I thought!These are innocent people
here thattrust you and are hanging on to yourevery word, couldn't
you spend tenfrigging minutes to explain to themhow to mix their
own black?Later on as I sat back in myapartment eating my lunch I
couldlook down upon an older fellow, oneof the students, fumbling
with hisportable easel rig, arranging hispalette, brushes,
preliminarysketch...let's see, place the sketchhere...shit, too
windy...I'll put itback there under my sketch pad, nodamn it I
can't see it...I'll hold itwith my left hand and paint with
myright, Christ I need a third arm tohold my view finder! After a
while hefinally began to paint hispicture...holy mother of god! You
sonof a bitch! He was painting the exactsame scene as his
instructor! So there they are hypnotized by thelightning strikes
while the dronestrikes away, unnoticed, in thedistance.
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Kenny Cole
Mezmerized2012screen print24" x 18"$250.00
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Kenny Cole
Escape2012screen print | $250.00
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Kenny Cole
Snowball's Chance in Hell: Riches2012screen print | edition of
14 prints24" x 18"$250.00
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Kenny Cole
Low Tide2012screen print | edition of 11 prints14" x
17"$125.00This print was inspired by a trip to Fish Beach where
Ijust began to notice all of the red items that had washedup: red
plastic escape vents, cooked lobster carapaces, redrope, red sea
weed, bricks and red rusty chains.
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Kenny Cole
After the Rain2012screen print | edition of 11 prints18" x
24"$250.00The early part of my residency saw some cold rainy days.
Thisprint tries to capture the feeling I got after a
particularlylong stretch ended and blue sky appeared suddenly. It
felt likethis massive ugly gray cloud was grudgingly lumbering
away.
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Kenny Cole
Rusty's Warning2012screen print | edition of 814" x
17"$125.00Rusty Spear makes door mats and the like using nylon
ropeand has it all displayed for sale on his front lawn,
justdiagonally across from the apartment where I stayed. Oneday he
put out a sign with "Warning" written on it,explaining how people
have been lifting his merch and howhe would make sure that they
knew that he knew and how apolice officer would be waiting for them
on the other sideof the ferry, etc. When I decided to create this
print of abright red gas can, I thought that it had the word
warningprinted on it, but later some time after completing
theprint, I walked by and noticed that there was no such
wordprinted in big letters on the can!
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Kenny Cole
Outdoor Enthusiasmscreen print | edition of 1324" x
18"$250.00$350.00 with FrameThis print was created after
muchfrustration trying to create morecomplex prints with multiple
colors.It was a breath of fresh air to justdo one color and not
have to cut outa paper stencil. As is the case withall of the
prints I created whiledoing my artist's residency onMonhegan
Island, Maine, this printwas influenced, in part, by myexperiences
there. In this case itwas a curious combination of aprevious motif
that I had oftenworked into my imagery; outdoorclothing and gear
appropriated froma camping catalog, and seeing aperson walk by my
studio windowsseveral times, in a high tech wetsuit. The clothing
motif is afavorite of mine for two reasons: Ilike the way the
clothes are void of
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humans yet posed as if there arepeople wearing them and I like
how,in this particular catalog I use,they're depicted as drawings
withall of the stitches and wrinklesdelicately rendered. The rant
orcontent of the text is my own. It issomething that I've been
thinkingabout, but have yet to express inany way. This idea of hand
drawingtext that "expounds" in this way ispart of a series of
gouaches onpaper that I've called Manifestos.Each one begins with a
charged wordwhich, despite my disregard foraccuracy in building my
thesis, Iwas finding, reflecting upon andspeaking about in a way
that mighthold a certain truth-like qualityand that anyone who
might read itmight experience a variety offeelings from
enlightenment tounease to humor to outrightincredulity, around
otherwisesocially charged subjects.
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Kenny Cole
Evening Sky2012screen print | edition of 818" x
24"$250.00$350.00 with FrameMy evening ritual was to walk up to the
Monhegan lighthouse andcatch the sunset. I needed a ritual and I
needed the exercise! Iunderstand the pleasure in wanting to paint
the sky and land...thelight is constantly changing and there is a
natural compulsion tocapture it somehow before it disapears. I was
not immune to this,but I would try to "remember" the scene and then
try and "see it"again as a print. I think even when you are
painting plein air youmust enact a version of this as no moment
ever looks like thenext. But of course I had to add the
tires...bold and bouncy justlike the clouds!
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Kenny Cole
Knock Out2012screen print | edition of 1117" x 14"$125.00
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Kenny Cole
Earth and IndustryTriptych2012screen print54" x 24"$750.00
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Kenny Cole
Earth and Industry2012screen print | edition of 818" x
24"$250.00$350.00 with FrameThis was one of the first prints I
created during my residency.It was based on one of my morning
sketches, which in turn wasbased partly on an image of a vast
industrial site that I hadcome across while mining my 1966
encyclopedia set for aninspirational prompt. My studio was located
near Fish Beach onMonhegan and I felt like I was in the heart of
the island's"industry sector" of lobster fishing, with stacks of
trapslining the way just outside my windows, along with every
sizeand color plastic barrel and tank.
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Kenny Cole
Leonard - Benitez at Caesars Palace2012screen print| edition of
4 prints18" x 24"$250.00$350.00 with Frame
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Kenny Cole
Fracking the World to Pieces2012screen print | edition of 1018"
x 24"$250.00$350.00 with Frame
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Kenny Cole
Who in this Bowling Alley?2012screen print | edition of
10$125.00One of the themes that I brought with meto Monhegan was "A
Snowball's Chance inHell". I came up with this theme
ratherarbitrarily, getting the idea a whileback when I had thought
that I mighthave an opportunity to explore screenprinting in depth
or trade art for theuse of a screen printing facility alongwith an
experienced printer's skills. Iliked the feeling and reaction you
gotwhen you just said those words...it iskind of humorous and
fatalistic at thesame time and I sensed that depicting asnowball in
hell might be a cool way ofexploring using the white of the
paperwhile somehow building up riotous colorsaround it. Anyway,
this print startedout as a morning sketch after a night
ofthunderstorms. I just happened to openup a "B" encyclopedia and
came around to"Bowling" and, well it did not turn outexactly as I
had preconceived it, but it
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was essentially a start on the road tohell! P.S. I forgot to
even block outthe snowball, so I had to use whiteink!!!
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Kenny Cole
Lighthouse2012screen print | edition of 1017" x 14"$125.00
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