Kenny Cole
Monroe, ME
Much of my painting and installations take on an activist perspective in order to begin identifying and defining emerging moral calculi.
MessageCollection: "Jacked"
These are large gouache paintings on paper that I created between August 2019 and November 2020. This was the first time that I worked in gouache at this scale. It was a refreshing opportunity to work on a large scale without the fuss of say, building, stretching, sizing and priming canvas for example. These drawings allowed me to have more spontaneity and the ability to create many more large immersive images in a shorter period of time. Taken together they become both a yearlong diary and an exploration of motifs that might be seen more effectively on a larger scale.
I began this work as a body of work that might consider the social changes that has been evolving since our current president had taken office and specifically about how it would be exhibited after the 2020 election and whether I would need to anticipate a new administration or a continuation of the current administration. But as the scale of the pandemic began to compete and merge with the Trump phenomenon, I gradually came to see things less as something that was tethered to social change and more as something that was a phenomenal tension between the human and animal worlds; a greater existential struggle for us as a species within a mute parallel world that we thought we had left behind thanks to the promise of technology.
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