Willie Cole
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.
Willie Cole’s work has been acquired and exhibited by many stellar institutions, including:
The Museum of Modern Art, NY; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art; MCA Chicago; the National Gallery of Art; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Walker Art Center; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts and numerous others.
Willie Cole (b. 1955) lives and works in New Jersey and represented by Alexander and Bonin (New York).
Highpoint Editions Artist Willie Cole’s work is featured in the exhibition “Personal Space” at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
The ALL IN exhibition will be on view in Highpoint’s main gallery and print study room following the ALL IN event on Saturday, November 16.
Alexander and Bonin is pleased to announce Bella Figura, an exhibition of new work by Highpoint Editions Artist Willie Cole.
Highpoint Editions Artist Willie Cole created forms from plastic water bottles for his exhibit From Water to Light.
Read critic Ren Ellis Neyra’s article on Beauties at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, featuring Willie Cole’s Beauties, created at Highpoint Editions.
Cate McQuaid writes on the exhibition “Beauties” at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, where Highpoint Editions Artist Willie Cole’s work is featured.
Highpoint Editions Artist Willie Cole’s work will be featured in Exposures, a new exhibition of photography at the Alexander and Bonin gallery.
Highpoint Editions has been working with the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study to curate the largest exhibition of Willie Cole’s Beauties outside of Highpoint’s gallery.
Highpoint Editions Artist Willie Cole will be part of the exhibition “From Dürer to Digital and 3-D The Metamorphosis of the Printed Image” at the Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie.
Highpoint Editions Artist Willie Cole’s work will be featured in the exhibition: Feast and Famine at the Paul Robeson Galleries.
Highpoint Editions Artist Willie Cole’s work will be featured in the exhibition “In Place of Now” at the Sage College in Albany.
Highpoint Editions artist Willie Cole began a project with students from Virginia tech, creating a home out of 50,000 recycled water bottles.
Artwork by Highpoint Editions artist Willie Cole will be featured in the exhibition: “PLASTIC ENTANGLEMENTS: ECOLOGY, AESTHETICS, MATERIALS” at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.
Highpoint Editions artist Willie Cole's sculptures made of heels, are included in the Culture Lab's year long exhibition Assemblage.
Highpoint Editions work is being showcased at the University of Wyoming Art Museum during the Mid America Print Council.
Highpoint Editions Artist Willie Cole will showcase his installation piece "International Balls" 2000 at Alexander and Bonin in New York as part of the Gallery Laboratory exhibit
Willie Cole guest curated the exhibition OFF THE WALLS at the Greene County Council on the Arts.
Willie Cole's work is included in the Cantor Arts Center's exhibition, The Conjured Life: The Legacy of Surrealism, on view until April 3.
Highpoint Editions artist Willie Cole was interviewed for The Metropolitan Museum of Art's The Artist Project, an online series produced by the museum in which they give artists an opportunity to respond to their encyclopedic collection.
Willie Cole: On Site, an exhibition at the David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland will be on view through November 18, 2016.
Four of Willie Cole's Highpoint Editions prints from his Beauties series will be exhibited at the University of Richmond's Harnett Museum of Art in Virginia starting August 17 through December 4, 2016.
Three of Willie Cole's prints from the Beauties series he made with Highpoint Editions in 2012 have been chosen as the University of Kansas’ Common Work of Art for the 2016-2017 academic year.
A significant new body of work by internationally renowned artist Willie Cole. The works created in collaboration with Highpoint Editions include 27 intaglio and relief prints of ironing boards, a series of small and large screenprinted iron patterns juxtaposed in eye-popping colors, as well as a large woodcut depicting two female forms comprised of women’s high heeled shoes and echoing themes and techniques Cole has employed in his sculptural work.
Available Prints
Sole Sisters by Willie Cole 2012
Edition of 9 | Woodcut | 35" x 79 1/2" | Contact for availability
Virgin of Creativity (ascending) by Willie Cole 2012
The Virgins | Suite of eight prints | Edition of 9 | Screenprint | paper: 49" x 36 1/2" | Contact for availability
Virgin of Creativity (descending) by Willie Cole 2012
The Virgins | Suite of eight prints | Edition of 9 | Screenprint | paper: 49" x 36 1/2" | Contact for availability
Virgin of Desire (ascending) by Willie Cole 2012
The Virgins | Suite of eight prints | Edition of 9 | Screenprint | paper: 49" x 36 1/2" | Contact for availabilty
Virgin of Desire (descending) by Willie Cole 2012
The Virgins | Suite of eight prints | Edition of 9 | Screenprint | paper: 49" x 36 1/2" | Contact for availabilty
Virgin of Healing (ascending) by Willie Cole 2012
The Virgins | Suite of eight prints | Edition of 9 | Screenprint | paper: 49" x 36 1/2" | Contact for availability
Virgin of Healing (descending) by Willie Cole 2012
The Virgins | Suite of eight prints | Edition of 9 | Screenprint | paper: 49" x 36 1/2" | Contact for availablity
Virgin of Renunciation (ascending) by Willie Cole 2012
The Virgins | Suite of eight prints | Edition of 9 | Screenprint | paper: 49" x 36 1/2" | Contact for availabilty
Virgin of Renunciation (descending) by Willie Cole 2012
The Virgins | Suite of eight prints | Edition of 9 | Screenprint | paper: 49" x 36 1/2" | Contact for availability
Virgin of Wisdom (ascending/descending) by Willie Cole 2012
Edition of 9 | Screenprint | 41" x 58 1/2" | Contact for availabilty
Complementary Soles (Blue/Green) by Willie Cole 2012
Complementary Soles | Suite of nine prints | Edition of 9 | Screenprint | paper: 25" x 18 3/4" | Contact for availability
Complementary Soles (Blue/Orange) by Willie Cole 2012
Complementary Soles | Suite of nine prints | Edition of 9 | Screenprint | paper: 25" x 18 3/4" | Contact for availabiltiy
Complementary Soles (Blue/Purple) by Willie Cole 2012
Complementary Soles | Suite of nine prints | Edition of 9 | Screenprint | paper: 25" x 18 3/4" | Contact for availability
Complementary Soles (Red/Green) by Willie Cole 2012
Complementary Soles | Suite of nine prints | Edition of 9 | Screenprint | paper: 25" x 18 3/4" | Contact for availability
Complementary Soles (Red/Orange) by Willie Cole 2012
Complementary Soles | Suite of nine prints | Edition of 9 | Screenprint | paper: 25" x 18 3/4" | Contact for availability
Complementary Soles (Red/Purple) by Willie Cole 2012
Complementary Soles | Suite of nine prints | Edition of 9 | Screenprint | paper: 25" x 18 3/4" | Contact for availability
Complementary Soles (Yellow/Green) by Willie Cole 2012
Complementary Soles | Suite of nine prints | Edition of 9 | Screenprint | paper: 25" x 18 3/4" | Contact for availability
Complementary Soles (Yellow/Orange) by Willie Cole 2012
Complementary Soles | Suite of nine prints | Edition of 9 | Screenprint | paper: 25" x 18 3/4" | Contact for availability
Complementary Soles (Yellow/Purple) by Willie Cole 2012
Complementary Soles | Suite of nine prints | Edition of 9 | Screenprint | paper: 25" x 18 3/4" | Contact for availability
Archive - Not Available to Purchase
Five Beauties Rising Suite by Willie Cole 2012
Five Beauties Rising | Suite of five prints | Edition of 9 | Intaglio & relief | 63 1/2" x 22 1/2" each
Clara Esther by Willie Cole 2012
Edition of 3 | Intaglio & relief | 63 1/2" x 22 1/2" each | Contact for availability
Eva Mae by Willie Cole 2012
Edition of 3 | Intaglio & relief | 63 1/2" x 22 1/2" each | Contact for availability
Jane by Willie Cole 2012
Edition of 3 | Intaglio & relief | 63 1/2" x 22 1/2" each | Contact for availability
Jesse Mae by Willie Cole 2012
Edition of 3 | Intaglio & relief | 63 1/2" x 22 1/2" each | Contact for availability
Rose by Willie Cole 2012
Edition of 3 | Intaglio & relief | 63 1/2" x 22 1/2" each | Contact for availability
Sarah by Willie Cole 2012
Edition of 3 | Intaglio & relief | 63 1/2" x 22 1/2" each | Contact for availability
Zeddie by Willie Cole 2012
Edition of 3 | Intaglio & relief | 63 1/2" x 22 1/2" each | Contact for availability
Virgin of Enlightenment (ascending/descending) by Willie Cole 2012
Edition of 9 | Screenprint | 41" x 58 1/2"