January 22,
2007
Willie Cole’s ‘Anxious Objects’ on
View
In the hands of American artist Willie Cole, the
prosaic is transformed into the iconic—hair dryers and high heels
become tribal mask. Thirty-one works by Cole are now on view at the
Memorial Art Gallery through March 11 as part of a nationally touring,
mid-career retrospective.
Cole
Anxious Objects: Willie Cole’s Favorite
Brands features assemblages, prints, and
mixed-media works created between 1988 and 2006. The earliest work in 
Anxious Objects was crafted by Cole when he was an artist-in-residence at the
Studio Museum in Harlem. There, his artistic vision matured and he began
assembling artifacts from a throwaway culture into artworks. Today,
Cole’s work is in major collections, including the Museum of
Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the
Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the National Gallery of Art in
Washington, D.C.
Anxious Objects was crafted by Cole when he was an artist-in-residence at the
Studio Museum in Harlem. There, his artistic vision matured and he began
assembling artifacts from a throwaway culture into artworks. Today,
Cole’s work is in major collections, including the Museum of
Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the
Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the National Gallery of Art in
Washington, D.C.
The gallery will host several special events to mark
the exhibition, including a lecture by choreographer Garth Fagan on
February 1 and a family day on February 4. For more details, visit http://mag.rochester.edu.
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