Oils, Acrylics, Watercolors & Prints
Oil remained Coco’s preferred medium during the 1960s until the materials sickened her and she was forced to experiment with several other art forms: acrylics, watercolors, pastels, and assemblages. Through this transition, Coco was able to achieve the same powerful expression, with her distinctive, colorful organic shapes that she built up on the surface. A move to a large carriage house in Huntington Bay, New York in 1975 afforded Coco the space to acquire a printing press and add printmaking to her artistic repertoire. During this period, Coco continued to portray her surrounding environment, abstractly featuring people, animals and whimsical everyday objects.
Together We See, Oil on canvas (1963)
New Alexandra, Oil on canvas (1963)
Top left: Mother and Child in Blue (1962); Top right: Untitled (1961); Bottom left: Fisherman (1962); Center right: Untitled (1963); Bottom right: Sex Under the Sea (1964).
All artworks: Oil on canvas
Flying High, Oil on wood and canvas (1963)
Black Mother and Child, Oil on canvas (1962)
New England Woman, Oil on canvas (1963)
The Egg, Oil on Canvas (1965)
Space Stations, Acrylic on canvas (1966)
Poor Anthony, Acrylic on canvas (1966)
Two Fans, Acrylic on canvas (1968)
Left: Looking In, Acrylic on wood assemblage (1967); Center top: Breakfast, Pastels (1966); Right: Help, Acrylic assemblage (1968); Center bottom: Promenade, Rice paper gauche method (1965).
Left: Zeroing In On the Void, Acrylic on canvas with detergent (1966); Right: Zeroing In On the Void, Pastel (1968)
Peacock Series, Pastel on canvas board with rubber cement (1967)
Left: Mellow Lane #1, Photo etching (1976); Middle: Mellow Lane #2, Photo etching (1976); Right: Mellow Lane #3, Photo etching (1976)
Left: I Yearn for the Beauty of Both Worlds, Etching (1977); Middle: Holocaust (cover from Mortal Companions), Etching (1977); Right: Guys Like Sam Tied to the Third Rail, Etching (1977); These illustrations by Coco Gordon come from Charles Fishman, Mortal Companions (Pleasure Dome Press, 1977)
Earthen Tracery, Print Assemblage (1978)
Return If Wise, Print Assemblage (1978)
A Child’s Dream, Print assemblage (1978)
Mother as Puppeteer, Print assemblage (1978)