Willie Cole
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Primarily a sculptor, Willie Cole draws his subjects from personal iconography: in his past work irons recalled African tribal markings and shields, ironing boards represented slave ships, and numerous images are drawn from a history of domestic labor and other personal references.
"Finding beauty in the commonplace — some may even say banal — is one of artist Willie Cole’s strengths. His ability to rejigger the consumer world around us into something more fantastic creates the illusion that his art springs from the mystical intersection of folk culture, utility, design, contemporary art, and mythology." – Hrag Vartanian, HYPERALLERGIC
Selected Exhibitions
2019
Alexander and Bonin, New York, NY
Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2017
College of Architecture and Design Gallery, The New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ
Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
2016
David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Museum of Art, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
Arthur Ross Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2015
808 Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA
Mazmanian Gallery, Framingham State University, Framingham, MA
The Diggs Gallery of Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC
2013
Albertine Monroe-Brown Gallery, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
2011
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
2010
James Gallery, Graduate Center of the City University, New York, NY
Memphis Brooks Museum of the Art, Memphis, TN
Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
Rowan University Art Gallery, Glassboro, NJ
2006
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
University of Wyoming Museum, Laramie, WY
2004
Tampa Museum of Arts, Tampa, FL
2001
Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Bronx, NY
1998
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Collections
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
The National Gallery of Art
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN