Today we’d like to introduce you to Anne Coe.
Anne Coe is a true daughter of the West. She is a fourth generation Arizonan, raised in the relentless heat and endless space of the Southwestern desert. Coe studied Art in Europe and Latin America before earning her Master of Fine Arts degree at Arizona State University in 1980. Coe’s career has brought her recognition throughout the West and beyond. She has had the cover article in Southwest Art (June 2005) and has been featured in many other publications such as “Painters of Grand Teton National Park” by D.L. and J.L. Poulton, “Drawn to Yellowstone” by Peter Hasserick, “Leading the West: 100 Contemporary Painters and Sculptors” by James Haggerty, “Humor In Art” by Nicholas Roukes, and “Trouble in Paradise” by the Tucson Museum of Art. Her biography, “Anne Coe Wisdom of the West,” by Amy Abrams, is available on Amazon.
Please tell us about your art.
My paintings function to connect human culture to the natural world. My paintings allow me to imagine a connection between the body and nature, self and place. Often I deal with the conflicts between the wild and civilized worlds. My work is filled with irony, humor, pathos, and contradiction and as such represents the ambivalence, humans have always felt for the natural world. We love it and yet want to possess it and define it and therefore, by extension, limit it. This we all know in the end is folly
Choosing a creative or artistic path comes with many financial challenges. Any advice for those struggling to focus on their artwork due to financial concerns?
Perseverance. My advice for anything you want to do is to show up. Have a studio space set up somewhere and set a time to be there every day.
How or where can people see your work? How can people support your work?
Coe’s career has brought her recognition throughout the West and beyond. She has been included in many books and her biography, ANNE COE WISDOM OF THE WILD by Amy Abrams is available through Amazon.
Her work is included in numerous public and private collections: among them The Figge Art Museum, the Glasgow Center for Contemporary Art, The Whitney Museum of Western Art, the Smithsonian Institution, Eiteljorg Museum, Midwest Museum of American Art, National Museum of Wildlife Art, and Museo de Bellas Arte, Guadalajara, Mexico. She illustrated “Here Is the Southwestern Desert” for Hyperion Publishing, which has had multiple printings since 2007 with the latest printing in 2017 in Chinese.
This book is available on Amazon.
Contact Info:
- Address: 5776 E Forest St
Apache Junction, AZ 85119 - Website: www.annecoe.com
- Phone: 480 390-8410
- Email: aecoe@mindspring.com
- Instagram: Anne Coe
- Facebook: Anne Elizabeth Coe
- Twitter: Artist Anne Coe
Image Credit:
Joanne West
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