Paintings and Drawings

by Sue Coe

Sue Coe has constantly shocked with her images, not because she has an obsession with gratuitous obscenity but because she has chosen to expose and magnify social and human wounds. Her works directly confront society with its flaws, flaws that need first to be recognized, then dealt with, before it will be possible for people to realize their possibilities as human beings.

157 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1991

About the author

Sue Coe grew up next to a slaughterhouse in Liverpool. She studied at the Royal College of Art in London and left for New York in 1972. Early in her career, she was featured in almost every issue of Art Spiegelman’s groundbreaking magazine Raw, and has since contributed illustrations to the New York Times, the New Yorker, The Nation, Entertainment Weekly, Time, Details, The Village Voice, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Esquire and Mother Jones, among other publications. Her previous books include Dead Meat (winner of the 1991 Genesis Award) and Cruel. Among her many awards are the Dickinson College Arts Award, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women’s Caucus for Art, and a National Academy of Arts Award (2009).