Bill Hodges Gallery 12 Scorches 3 Bronze Sculptures by Willie Cole
Untitled, 2013, Scorch on Paper, 24 x 18 in. (60.96 x 45.72 cm)
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Scorches
Bill Hodges Gallery
Willie Cole (1955 - ) Untitled, 2013
Scorch on Paper 24 x 18 in. (60.96 x 45.72 cm)
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Bill Hodges Gallery
Willie Cole (1955 - ) Untitled, 2013
Scorch on Paper 24 x 18 in. (60.96 x 45.72 cm)
529 W. 20th Street, 10e, New York, NY 10011 • BILLHODGESGALLERY.COM
Bill Hodges Gallery
Willie Cole (1955 - ) Untitled, 2013
Scorch on Paper 24 x 18 in. (60.96 x 45.72 cm)
529 W. 20th Street, 10e, New York, NY 10011 • BILLHODGESGALLERY.COM
Bill Hodges Gallery
Willie Cole (1955 - ) Untitled, 2013
Scorch on Paper 24 x 18 in. (60.96 x 45.72 cm)
529 W. 20th Street, 10e, New York, NY 10011 • BILLHODGESGALLERY.COM
Bill Hodges Gallery
Willie Cole (1955 - ) Untitled, 2013
Scorch on Paper 24 x 18 in. (60.96 x 45.72 cm)
529 W. 20th Street, 10e, New York, NY 10011 • BILLHODGESGALLERY.COM
Bill Hodges Gallery
Willie Cole (1955 - ) Untitled, 2013
Scorch on Paper 24 x 18 in. (60.96 x 45.72 cm)
529 W. 20th Street, 10e, New York, NY 10011 • BILLHODGESGALLERY.COM
Bill Hodges Gallery
Willie Cole (1955 - ) Untitled, 2013
Scorch on Paper 18 x 24 in. (45.72 x 60.96 cm)
529 W. 20th Street, 10e, New York, NY 10011 • BILLHODGESGALLERY.COM
Bill Hodges Gallery
Willie Cole (1955 - ) Untitled, 2013
Scorch on Paper 24 x 18 in. (60.96 x 45.72 cm)
529 W. 20th Street, 10e, New York, NY 10011 • BILLHODGESGALLERY.COM
Bill Hodges Gallery
Willie Cole (1955 - ) Untitled, 2013
Scorch on Paper 24 x 18 in. (60.96 x 45.72 cm)
529 W. 20th Street, 10e, New York, NY 10011 • BILLHODGESGALLERY.COM
Bill Hodges Gallery
Willie Cole (1955 - ) Untitled, 2013
Scorch on Paper 24 x 18 in. (60.96 x 45.72 cm)
529 W. 20th Street, 10e, New York, NY 10011 • BILLHODGESGALLERY.COM
Bill Hodges Gallery
Willie Cole (1955 - ) Untitled, 2013
Scorch on Paper 18 x 24 in. (45.72 x 60.96 cm)
529 W. 20th Street, 10e, New York, NY 10011 • BILLHODGESGALLERY.COM
Bill Hodges Gallery
Willie Cole (1955 - ) Untitled, 2013
Scorch on Paper 24 x 18 in. (60.96 x 45.72 cm)
529 W. 20th Street, 10e, New York, NY 10011 • BILLHODGESGALLERY.COM
Bronzes
Bill Hodges Gallery
Willie Cole (1955 - )
Mother and Child, 2020 Bronze with Black Patina, Edition of 7 23 1/4 x 10 x 15 1/2 in. (59.06 x 25.4 x 39.37 cm)
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Bill Hodges Gallery
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Bill Hodges Gallery
Willie Cole (1955 - )
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Downtown Goddess Bronze, Edition of 7 x 8 x 10 3/4 in. (92.71 x 20.32 x 27.31 cm)
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Bill Hodges Gallery
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Bill Hodges Gallery
Willie Cole (1955 - )
Mother and Child, 2014 Bronze with BLack Patina 26 1/2x 11 x 15 1/4 in. (67.31 27.94 x 38.74 cm)
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Bill Hodges Gallery
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Bill Hodges Gallery
Biography Willie Cole (1955; Newark, NJ) is a self-described contemporary artist, perceptual. engineer, ecological mechanic, transformer. Cole attended Boston University’s School of Fine Arts then graduated with a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 1976. He also continued his studies in New York from 1976-1979 at the Arts Students League. His work often discusses African and African American history with the use of transformed objects like irons, shoes or plastic bottles. A signature motif of Cole are his iron-burn prints, a style he began in the late 1980s, where he places a scorching hot clothing iron on paper or canvas then layers or alters the image to give metaphorical meaning like human figures or a bird’s eye-view of Trans-Atlantic slave ships. These works are also quite personal to Cole as he associated the iron with the domestic work of his grandmother and maternal figures throughout history therefore adding another dimension of race and gender. Willie Cole is an established artist who has had several solo exhibitions at notable galleries and institutions: Alexander and Bonin, New York (2010); Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford (2009); California African American Museum, Los Angeles (2005); Miami Art Museum (2001); Bronx Museum of the Arts (2001) and the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1998). Additionally, his work has been featured in many high-profile group shows such as “Reconfiguring an African Icon: Odes to the Mask by Modern and Contemporary Artists from Three Continents,” which opened in March 2011 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; a 2010 survey exhibition of his work on paper at the James Gallery of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York which later travelled to the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, the Sarah Moody Gallery of Art at the University of Alabama and the Rowan University Art Gallery in Glassboro, NJ. Cole is also the recipient of many a prestigious awards including the Penny McCall Foundation Grant (1991), the Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant (1995), the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award (1997) and the 2006 David C. Driskell Prize from the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, GA. The artist currently lives and works in New Jersey.
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Museum Collections High Museum of Art, Atlanta Birmingham Museum of Art, AL The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio Dallas Museum of Art, Texas Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota Duluth Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska The British Museum, London Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky FRAC Lorraine, Metz Walker Art Center, Minneapolis The Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey Newark Museum of Art, New Jersey Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Museum of Modern Art, New York New York Public Library Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Allen Memorial Art Gallery, Oberlin, Ohio Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for the Visual Arts at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California The Pennsylvania Academy of the Arts, Philadelphia Philadelphia Museum of Art Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri Art, Design & Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara Tampa Museum of Art Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
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