{"id":8011876172002,"title":"Hot Spot Rug by Willie Cole","handle":"hot-spot-rug-by-willie-cole","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ehand-dyed, hand-spun 100% New Zealand wool\u003cbr\u003e150 knots\/sq in\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e72 x 50 5\/8 inches (183 x 128 cm)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eedition of 18 + 2 APs\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eobject description\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eWillie 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eWillie 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. 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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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eWillie 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}