CEWS - Event: April 4, 2001

"Hands On"

Wednesday, April 4, 2001
Golden Auditorium- Little Hall
4:30 PM

Sue Coe, prominent New York City artist

Clifford Gallery Exhibit-
Little Hall

March 28 to
April 24, 2001

An exhibition by Sue Coe, considered one of the foremost political artists today, will be on display at Colgate University from March 28 through April 24 in Little Hall's Clifford Gallery. The exhibition is titled "One Hand Washes the Other: Prints and Drawings 1985-2000 by Sue Coe." Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday, 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.

On Wednesday, April 4 at 4:30 p.m., Coe will deliver a lecture titled "Hands On" in Golden Auditorium, also in Little Hall; a gallery reception will follow. The exhibition is part of Colgate's Art & Art History Visiting Lecture Series and is generously funded by the Center for Ethics & World Societies (CEWS).

The works in "One Hand Washes the Other" were specifically selected by the artist with the intent of examining the ways in which her work has addressed issues of corruption, the theme of the CEWS this year. The exhibition will feature works in which the artist questions much about the state of society and will include pieces that focus on financial corruption, police brutality, the media/entertainment industry, healthcare, political/judicial corruption, and moral corruption.

An essay written for this project by Coe, titled "GREASED PALMS for the uncorrupted," will be available at the gallery as a poster/pamphlet, free to the public.

Coe has been featured on the cover of Art News and has been included in numerous museum and gallery exhibitions nationally and internationally, including a one-person retrospective at the Hirschhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and many other periodicals. While Coe's work covers a variety of subjects, she has spent years documenting the atrocities committed by people against animals. Her most recent series examines the atrocities that humans commit against one another, specifically revealed by the horrors of war. Her own publications include How to Commit Suicide in South Africa, X (The Life and Times of Malcolm X), Police State, Dead Meat, and the recently published Pit's Letter.

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