THE HIGH MUSEUM NAMES ARTIST WILLIE COLE 2006 RECIPIENT OF THE DAVID C. DRISKELL PRIZE
The Driskell Prize Honors Excellence in African American Art and Scholarship
Named after the renowned African American artist and art scholar, the Driskell Prize recognizes an individual in the beginning or middle of his or her career whose work makes an original and important contribution to the field of African American art and art history. The $25,000 award will be put toward an acquisition of Cole's work for the High's permanent collection. Cole's prize will be awarded at a ceremony at the High Museum in Atlanta on March 27, 2006.
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HAMMONDS HOUSE HOSTS A CELEBRATORY RECEPTION IN HONOR OF WILLIE COLE'S AWARD OF THE DAVID C. DRISKELL PRIZE
The Staff and Board of Trustees of the Hammonds House Museum and Resource Center of African American Art cordially invite you to a reception celebrating Willie Cole in this prestigious honor. The reception will be held today, Friday, March 24, 2006 from 6 - 8 pm at Hammonds House.
Please join in this celebration of a rising star!
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About the Artist:
Willie Cole uses discarded everyday objects – such as irons, blow dryers and high-heeled shoes - to create iconic sculptures, installations and prints that present social, political or cultural perspectives of the African American experience. Cole's signature images are his iron-burn prints, which he began making in the late 1980s, where the scorches from a scalding iron are imbued with metaphorical meaning. Recent and upcoming exhibitions of Cole's work include: "Anxious Objects: Willie Cole's Favorite Brands," opening in March 2006 at the Montclair Art Museum in New Jersey, the first of a six-venue national tour; "Willie Cole: Sole to Soul," on view currently at Alexander and Bonin Gallery in New York; and "AFTERBURN, Willie Cole: Selected Works 1997-2004," on view at the University of Wyoming Art Museum in 2004.
Born in 1955, Cole received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from The School of the Visual Arts, New York in 1976, and studied at The Art Students League, New York, from 1976 through 1979. Since 1986, Cole's work has been featured in over 60 exhibitions, and can be found in the permanent collections of such museums as The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. In Recognition of his work, Cole has been awarded the Augustus Saint-Gaudens memorial Fellowship (in 2002), the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award (in 1996), the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant (in 1995), and the Penny McCall Foundation Grant (in 1991). Cole was an artist-in-residence in the John Michael Kohler Arts Center Arts/Industry Program in Sheboygan, Wisconsin in 2000. He currently lives and works in Mine Hill, N.J.
Please visit the following sites to learn more of the work of
Willie Cole:
http://www.alexanderandbonin.com/artists/cole/cole.html
http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/1998/cole/index.html
http://www.mcachicago.org/MCA/exhibit/past/anxiety/cole.html
http://www.worcesterart.org/Exhibitions/afterburn.html
http://www.oberlin.edu/allenart/collection/cole_willie.html
http://www.octobergallery.com/paintmagazine/pages/mg_hmoa.html
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