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“The greatest living practitioner of confrontational, revolutionary art”
—Critic Donald Kuspit
“Sue Coe is a formidable rhetorician who creates images and phrases sharp as scalpels”
—Nancy Princenthal in ARTnews
"Ms. Coe has been prescient about a lot of things in her searing social-political art. Her work can feel like a punch in the face or a call to action — or both"
—Hilarie M. Sheets in the New York Times
"The muckraking painter Sue Coe sees people's inhumanity to animals as but a prelude to their inhumanity to one another"
—Critic Roberta Smith in the New York Times
“An artist who refuses to avoid painful issues and is relentlessly engaged in policing the state”
—Linda F. McGreevy in Arts Magazine
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Currently on View
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Artist's Statement
IF ANIMALS BELIEVED IN GOD THE DEVIL WOULD LOOK LIKE A HUMAN BEING.Animal Liberation is a gloBal social justice movement to resist the genocide of the gentle. Like any other social justice movement in history, where an oppressed group struggles for justice, activists are mocked and demeaned. Non-human animals are legal chattel property, they are an oppressed class. Yet they know the injustice of a slaughterhouse. They run and fly from the sound of guns, bite their legs off to escape from traps and chains, gasp to escape the nets and hooks. They Go mad in laboratories.
ART DEPICTING ANIMALS IS TRIVIALIZED, BECAUSE ANIMALS ARE CONSIDERED TRIVIAL. ANIMALS BELONG TO THEMSELVES, THEY ARE NOT HUMAN PROPERTY IN ANY WORLD THAT VALUES MORALITY. ALL THEY OWN ARE THEIR BODIES, WHICH ARE VIOLENTLY STOLEN FROM THEM. HUMANS BREED ANIMALS, ONLY TO MURDER THEM. THERE ARE VERY FEW PLACES ON PLANET EARTH, WHERE HUMANS NEED TO KILL ANIMALS TO SURVIVE AND NOWHERE SAFE FOR ANIMALS TO LIVE OUT THEIR LIVES IN PEACE.
—Sue Coe
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