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Willie Cole
Willie Cole (born 1955 in Newark, New Jersey) is a noted contemporary American sculptor and conceptual and visual artist.
==Art==
Cole is best known for assembling and transforming ordinary domestic and used objects such as irons, ironing boards, high-heeled shoes, hair dryers, bicycle parts, wooden matches, lawn jockeys, and other discarded appliances and hardware, into imaginative and powerful works of art and installations.
Through the repetitive use of single objects in multiples, Cole’s assembled sculptures acquire a transcending and renewed metaphorical meaning, or become a critique of our consumer culture. Cole’s work is generally discussed in the context of postmodern eclecticism, combining references and appropriation ranging from African and African-American imagery, to Dada’s readymades and Surrealism’s transformed objects, and icons of American pop culture or African and Asian masks, into highly original and witty assemblages.〔( Worcester Art Museum Catalogue of Cole’s 2005-2006 exhibit )〕 Some of Cole’s interactive installations also draw on simple game board structures that include the element of chance while physically engaging the viewer.〔''Anxious Objects: Willie Cole's Favorite Brands'' By Smith, Patterson, Leslie King-Hammond, Lowery Stokes Sims. Published 2006. Montclair Art Museum Publn.〕
Cole’s widely recurring symbolic and artistic object that was initially brought to the attention of the art world in the mid-1980s has been the steam iron. While Cole’s unique approach of imprinting the steam iron’s marks on a variety of media result in a wide-ranging decorative potential of his scorchings, these scorches are also to be viewed as a reference to Cole’s African-American heritage.〔(Article on Willie Cole’s 2007 exhibit at the Frye Museum of Art )〕
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