Crimes of the Gods: Scenes from the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, 2023
Portfolio of nine color woodcuts with hand-painted additions and mineral flakes
Sheet: 18 1/2 x 22 inches
Image: 14 x 18 inches
Edition: 20
$12,000, for the set
Susanna Coffey
Known for her probing self-portraits spanning close to 50 years, Susanna Coffey was invited to the Neiman Center in 2020 to work on a suite of color woodcuts illustrating the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, a subject she first explored in painting in the 1980s. The project, inspired in part by Edvard Munch’s jigsaw woodcuts, had several starts and stops over the following three years as a result of the Covid pandemic. The final portfolio, editioned this year, contains a luminous set of prints that visually capture the emotionally fraught tale of Homer’s poem.
Coffey’s artwork has been exhibited in many museums including The Weatherspoon Art Museum, The Aldrich Museum, The Hood Museum, The American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her work is in the collections of The Yale University Art Gallery, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Minneapolis Museum of Art, The National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C., The Karamay Museum of Art, Xinjiang China and Museum of Contemporary Art, Seville, Spain, among others. Among her awards are The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award. Susanna Coffey lives and works in New York City.
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