www.suecoe.com
Skip to main content
  • Menu
  • About the Artist
  • Art
  • Books
  • Activism
  • Exhibitions
  • On View
  • Press
  • Contact
  • Video
  • Shop
Cart
0 items $
Checkout

Item added to cart

View cart & checkout
Continue shopping
Menu
  • Current
  • Online
  • Past

Ways of Seeing: Prints of Eric Avery and Sue Coe/Sue Coe: Look Through My Eyes Animal and Human Rights: Texas A & M International University

Past exhibition
20 March - 19 April 2023
  • Works
  • Overview
  • Press
Sue Draws in the Slaughterhouse, 2011 Lithograph on heavy cream wove paper 15 x 20 in (38.1 x 50.8 cm) Edition of 50 plus 5 AP
Sue Draws in the Slaughterhouse, 2011
Lithograph on heavy cream wove paper
15 x 20 in (38.1 x 50.8 cm)
Edition of 50 plus 5 AP
View works

“Ways of Seeing: One Exhibit, Two Spaces,” will feature artists and friends Eric Avery, M.D., and Sue Coe and includes treasured gifts shared and built by the two over their 40-year-plus friendship. It is essentially one exhibit housed in two spaces: Sue Coe: Look Through My Eyes. Animal and Human Rights at Texas A&M International University’s Center for the Fine and Performing Arts (CFPA) Gallery (March 20 – April 19, 2023), and Eric Avery, M.D.: Art as Medicine at the Laredo Center for the Arts (LCA) (March 3 – May 12, 2023) downtown. 

 

“Ways of Seeing: Sue Coe: Look Through My Eyes. Animal and Human Rights” is curated by Kassandra Romero, a TAMIU Art alumni, Laredo artist, and art teacher, and co-curated by Jesse Shaw, TAMIU assistant professor of art, and artist/printmaker, and Eric Avery.

 

Romero said the paired exhibit sheds light on social issues, yet brings hope through the gifts and correspondence shared throughout the artist’s friendship spanning 40 years. Among these gifts are the exhibition’s prints, Sue Coe’s publications, and ephemera detailing their rich correspondence, always with the power to educate each other.

 

“Coe’s work forces individuals to look at hard truths through their own eyes. Within the graphic drawings of a gruesome reality, Coe shows us unwavering hope for the individual that seeks to act. Avery’s work fuses science and art in healing. Society’s victims of abuse, illness, and marginalization all live on through his compelling art. The shared exhibit provides spaces for the gifts exchanged by two artists while also catalyzing a growing vegan and climate change consciousness -- presenting the notion that until humans practice compassion with all living beings, humanity will not know peace,” Romero observed.

Shaw noted that this paired exhibit structure presents a unique art opportunity in Laredo that celebrates the power of friendship.

 

“Having a shared companion exhibit of this scope and passion in two spaces is historic for the Laredo art scene. In addition, we tend to think of artists as solitary figures immersed in their art. Here however, we see two individuals who are not only bonded by a kind friendship, but are also artist friends who share the knowledge of their craft and medium, and educate each other in the context behind one another’s work,” Shaw explained.

Back to Past exhibitions
Privacy Policy
Manage cookies
© 2025 Sue Coe
Site by Artlogic
Instagram, opens in a new tab.
Facebook, opens in a new tab.
Join the mailing list
Send an email

This website uses cookies
This site uses cookies to help make it more useful to you. Please contact us to find out more about our Cookie Policy.

Manage cookies
Accept

Cookie preferences

Check the boxes for the cookie categories you allow our site to use

Cookie options
Required for the website to function and cannot be disabled.
Improve your experience on the website by storing choices you make about how it should function.
Allow us to collect anonymous usage data in order to improve the experience on our website.
Allow us to identify our visitors so that we can offer personalised, targeted marketing.
Save preferences
Close

Join our mailing list

Sign up!

* denotes required fields

You are receiving this message because you submitted your email address in person, in the Galerie St. Etienne’s guest book, or online, through either gseart.com or suecoe.com or by registering for a prior webinar. Your contact information will only ever be used for correspondence pertaining to Sue Coe or to the Galerie St. Etienne, and it will never be shared.