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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