About
Italian born Coco Gordon belongs to the most important of American "intermedia" artists. With roots in the Fluxus movement, today Coco refuses to be counted among any specific group. Central to her many-faceted activities is the effort to create a consciousness about ecological and social problems of the modern world. It would however not do Coco Gordon justice to see her work as a mere contribution to environmental protection, nor to accuse her of a form of Luddism philosophy. She rather attributes to technology a possibility to aid a sensible use of the resources at our disposal.
Since 1975, Coco has created handmade paper from natural based materials. With this she makes art, books, sculptures, and sound bodies based on forms of old indigenous instruments. Against our traditional education Coco’s art is there to be touched and played. Life resonates through artworks. Moreover, paper is the base material of her spatial/Earth-based installations.
Adapted from Silvie Steiner, Vernissage Translation from Austrian
Coco in Italy, 2023
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El Camino Real, Acrylic on canvas (2023)
What People Are Saying
"[Gordon] deals with her experience as though it were a constant adventure, and her work is as though a running commentary on that adventure, shaping itself into a kind of parallel adventure, no less profuse, no less fragile, no less infused with a sense of speed, and equally mysterious, aspiring to a similar sense of amazement."
— Henry Martin ("Acts of Faith", Il Sogno Del Tempo)
“...Gordon's process is a technology that underscores the connectedness of everything and everyone.... Her artmaking and ritual practice are synonymous activities that work together to change collective consciousness.”
— Arlene Raven (Hip-Hop Solarplexus)
“An established master of margins, gutters, alternative book structures, and every variety of unlikely printing material, Coco Gordon has recently completed a book as giddily complex as any she’s made, SuperSkyWoman--La Caduta: Things I Know You Should Know. The earth Goddess model of feminism has been languishing badly for years, but Gordon brings it ardent and quite contagious energy.”
— Nancy Princenthal (Print Collector’s Newsletter)
Living in an Art Box
“This unique home took a huge leap from gloomily historic to pleasantly zany.”
—Lisa Marshall, Boulder County Home & Garden, Fall 2015
A welcome message from out of the blue…
Good evening, Mrs. Coco Gordon,
Let me introduce myself: my name is Gioacchino Bartiromo, and I live in Nocera Superiore in the province of Salerno, Italy. Yesterday, in an old book abandoned near the garbage, I found this letter (see image to the right). I read it carefully and, after doing some research online, I believe it is a letter written by your mother, Alisa Lippmann, in the late 1960s to Countess Lanzara, who lived in my town until her death, in her beautiful historic villa in Croce Malloni.
Courtesy of Gioacchino BartiromoFirst correspondence received July 27, 2025; Original letter received August 21, 2025
