hand-dyed, hand-spun 100% New Zealand wool
150 knots/sq in
72 x 50 5/8 inches (183 x 128 cm)
edition of 18 2 APs

object description

Willie Cole is best known for assembling and transforming ordinary domestic and used objects such as irons, ironing boards, high-heeled shoes and other discarded appliances and hardware, into imaginative and powerful works of art and installations. Cole’s widely recurring symbolic and artistic object that was initially brought to the  attention of the art world 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, they are also to be viewed as a reference to his African American heritage.

Willie Cole’s work is included in numerous private and public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, New York; the Birmingham Museum of Art in Birmingham, Alabama; the High Museum in Atlanta, Georgia among many others. He has had a one-person exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.