The Tragedy of War Series
Arizona State University Art Museum
Nelson Fine Arts Center
January 10 through May 31, 2003
PUBLIC LECTURE BEING SCHEDULED:
Date to be Announced
image credit: What a Golden Beak! (They Want War),
Plate 2 from the Tragedy of War series, 1999
Aquatint and etching, with hand coloring, 8 x 12" Gift of the artist.
SUE COE: The Tragedy of War Series
Sue Coe is an important social/political artist working and residing in
the United States. She creates visual commentaries on current political
events and persons in power; on the inhumane treatment of animals in factory
farms, slaughterhouses, and laboratories; and on the victims of AIDS,
Apartheid and war. She does this in a media that allows distribution to
the widest audience: prints. In this exhibition of twenty-four works,
Coe exhaustively examines the Tragedy of War in our contemporary world–
the political players, atrocities, and victims.
About the Artist
Sue Coe was born in Tamworth, England in 1951. She studied at the
Royal College of Art, London from 1970-1973.
Her work has been exhibited at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,
Washington, DC; Georges Pompidou Center, Paris; The Museum of Modern Art,
NY; United Nations, New York, NY; Art Institute of Chicago, IL; Los Angeles
County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; The Drawing Center, New York, NY;
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX; Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa
Monica, CA; and is represented by Galerie St. Etienne, New York, NY.
Coe has written and created images for eight books.
The Arizona State University Art Museum maintains in its print archive
a complete inventory of Coe's etchings and lithographs.
ASU Art Museum Presentation
Organized by Jean Makin, SUE COE: The Tragedy of War Series will be installed
in the Arizona State University Art Museum Nelson Fine Arts Center location.
Duration
SUE COE: The Tragedy of War Series (January 10 - May 31,
2003) is open at the Nelson Fine Arts Center Tuesday from 10am to 9pm,
Wednesday through Saturday from 10am to 5pm.
Support
The exhibition and related programs are supported in part by Mikki and
Stanley Weithorn and Friends of the ASU Art Museum.
ASU Art Museum Exhibitions
Selected past exhibitions at the ASU Art Museum include:
Codex Mendez: Prints
by Leopoldo Mendez (1902-1969)
William Kentridge:
Ubu Tells the Truth and Other Stories
Screenshots:
Digital Drawings by Jon Haddock
Spectrum: An
Idea of History
Contemporary Art
from Cuba: Irony and Survival on the Utopian Island
Cops and Robbers:
Drawings by Lucio Muniain
Eugene Grigsby:
Works on Paper
Strange Fruit: New
Paintings by Hung Liu
Face Off: Paintings
by Michael Ray Charles and Jean-Michel Basquiat
Shirin Neshat: Rapture
For more information contact John Spiak at spiak@asu.edu.
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