The Washington Post, March 25th, 1994
SUE COE is still mad as hell, so I guess we'll just have to take it some more. A dozen of her slash-and-burn paintings excoriating animal exploitation, capitalism, militarism, racism and sexism are featured in the current Hirshhorn "Directions" exhibition. Coe, 42, describes herself as a "gutter journalist" rather than an artist, and will get no argument here. She's a hip-shooter who picks easy targets, soliciting our sympathy and anger without expanding our understanding. More interesting than the paintings is the biographical material in the exhibition checklist, which amounts to a black-com...
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