Willie Cole

Willie  Cole (dem born am 1955 insyd Somerville, New Jersey) be a contemporary American sculptor, printer, den conceptual den visual artist. Ein work dey use contexts of postmodern eclecticism, den dey combine references den appropriation from African den African-American imagery. He sanso use Dada’s readymades den Surrealism ein transformed objects, as well as icons of American pop culture anaa African den Asian masks.
Shows

 Select solo shows 

 2019, "Willie Cole: Bella Figura," Alexander and Bonin, New York, NY
 2019, "Willie Cole: Beauties," Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
 2017, "Willie Cole: Made in Newark," College of Architecture and Design Gallery, The New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ
 2017, "Making Everything Out of Anything: Prints, Drawings, and Sculptures by Willie Cole," Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
 2016 - 2017, "Willie Cole: On-Site," David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland; Museum of Art, University of New Hampshire; Arthur Ross Gallery, Philadelphia
 2015, "Willie Cole: Aquaphilic," 808 Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA
 2015, "Willie Cole," Mazmanian Gallery, Framingham State University, Framingham, MA
 2015, "Flawlessly Feminine: Women Who Graced the Cover and Works by Willie Cole," The Diggs Gallery, Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC
 2015, "Willie Cole: Transformations," Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
 2013 - 2014, "Complex Conversations: Willie Cole Sculptures and Wall Works," Albertine Monroe-Brown Gallery, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI; Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC; The College of Wooster Art Museum, Ebert Art Center, Wooster, OH; Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA; Houghton College, Houghton, NY
 2013 - 2014, "E Pluribus Unum," Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ
 2013, "If wishes were horses...," Alexander and Bonin, New York, NY
 2013, "Willie Cole: Illuminations and Transformations," Schneider Museum of Art at Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR
 2013, "From Water to Light," Prospect Street Firestation Gallery, Newark, NJ
 2012, "Deep Impressions: Willie Cole Works on Paper and Sculpture," Rowan University Art Gallery, Glassboro, NJ
 2010 - 2011, "Deep Impressions: Willie Cole Works on Paper," The James Gallery, The City University of New York, New York, NY; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN; Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL

 Select group shows 
 2017, "Operation Chromebody," Highpoint Editions, Minneapolis
 2017, "Walker Street Summer," Alexander and Bonin, New York
 2015, "Surrealism: The Conjured Life," MCA Chicago, Chicago
 2012, "Afro: Black Identity in America and Brazil," Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque,
 2011, "Reconfiguring an African Icon: Odes to the Mask by Modern and Contemporary Artists from Three Continents," The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

 References 

 External links 

 Willie Cole’s website
 Willie Cole’s art in Artcyclopedia
 Willie Cole's Art Gallery
 TV Interview with Willie Cole, and other video clips
 Willie Cole at MoMA
 Willie Cole at Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN

Category:1955 births
Category:Human
Category:African-American contemporary artists
Category:American contemporary artists
Category:20th-century American sculptors
Category:21st-century American sculptors
Category:21st-century American male artists
Category:American male sculptors
Category:American conceptual artists
Category:American postmodern artists
Category:Artists wey komot Newark, New Jersey
Category:Franklin Furnace artists
Category:Sculptors wey komot New Jersey
Category:African-American sculptors
Category:20th-century African-American artists
Category:21st-century African-American artists
Category:20th-century American male artists