MEMPHIS, TN.- On Friday, February 11, the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art opened an exhibition of 31 prints, drawings, and photographs by internationally recognized and award-winning artist Willie Cole. Organized by Patterson Sims, Deep Impressions: Willie Cole Works on Paper includes images of everyday consumer objects used in repetition, intricate designs, and bold color combinations to create universal, transcendent statements that are both powerful and provocative. The exhibition, which spans 30 years of work, fuses pop art and minimalist concepts or what Cole alternately calls “minimal maximalism” or “exponentialism.” Cole, born in 1955, is a native of New Jersey. His sculptures and works on paper have been the subject of numerous exhibitions around the world, including, most notably, a one-person exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 1998. The Brooks has a triptych by Cole, “Ma