The James Fuentes Gallery has announced a fascinating show taking place next month celebrating a groundbreaking moment in the Lower East Side’s history of art and activism. Here’s a portion of the press release: James Fuentes is honored to announce its forthcoming exhibition which will revisit a seminal exhibition called The Real Estate Show, which […]
The Essex Crossing development project is obviously changing the neighborhood in dramatic ways. A current show at the Hionas Gallery recalls a time, three decades ago, when the former urban renewal site was targeted not for redevelopment but for radical art. The longtime East Village artist, Robert Goldman (aka Bobby G), was a co-founder […]
Alice Mackler’s ceramic sculptures; Carol Bove’s monumental works and tabletop pieces; Deborah Remington’s drawings and paintings; and James Yaya Hough’s drawings of prison life.
Sue Coe: Paintings @ James Fuentes Essex, NYC
James Fuentas Essex // May 06, 2021 - June 06, 2021
May 13, 2021 | in Painting
James Fuentes is pleased to present paintings by SUE COE at James Fuentes Essex in collaboration with Galerie St. Etienne. Sue Coe is a British-American artist and activist working across drawing, printmaking, and painting. Coe studied at the Royal College of Art in London and emigrated to the US in the early 1970s, where she lived in New York City until upstate New York in 2002. Coe is known for her striking, propaganda-like visual commentary on major events and figures in culture and politics, rendered in stark visual contrast through her highly recognizable palette of black, white, and red. Coe’s experience growing up in close proximity to a slaughterhouse informed her lifelong animal rights activism, which remains interconnected within both her wider political activism and her output as an artist. In the decades since, Coe’s work has focused on facto
The James Fuentes Gallery has announced a fascinating show taking place next month celebrating a groundbreaking moment in the Lower East Side’s history of art and activism. Here’s a portion of the press release: James Fuentes is honored to announce its forthcoming exhibition which will revisit a seminal exhibition called The Real Estate Show, which […]