Kenny Cole

Kenny Cole’s “Inherent Resolve” takes its title from the U.S. Military’s name for their current operation in Syria. The dark deeds here, laid out with a schematic color palette, are bits and symbols representing the tools of war: the crossed scimitars of the army’s uniform patch, the gently touching finger tips of the power broker, the ubiquitous yet distant air power, a tangle of rope all caught up in the smoke and brimstone. Dividing the scene in two is a candy cane fitness pole, firmly held by a figure situated off camera, suggesting an even darker seaminess to the business of violence.