Jon Coffelt
ARTIST STATEMENT
Primarily, my work involves the idea of chaos from order and order from chaos through historical and personal context.
As a post-modernist abstract artist, I am informed by existing aesthetic constructs that can be historically referenced. Opportunity imbues the viewer to continue this conversation of past, present, and on-going dialogs of aesthetic theory to a uniquely personal level.
By nuancing my work with color, construct, and composition, I empower the viewer’s involvement to allow them to give form to the indiscriminate areas that evolve in my work. I am passionate about ideas that inform.
Fiberarts Magazine review
RESUME
Solo Exhibitions
“Jon Coffelt” Schedler Minchin Gallery, Birmingham, AL, April 2006
“Multistripes”, Permanent Installation, Lord International, US Headquarters, New York , NY, 2005
“Collateral Arrangements”, Degen Majka, Miami, FL, 2004
“Anomalies”, Departure from the Regular Arrangement”, Space One Eleven, curated by Anne Arrasmith, Birmingham, AL, 2004
“Satori”, Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA, 2003
“Jon Coffelt”, Jeffrey Coploff Gallery, New York, NY, 2003
“GardenScapes”, Galerie Gora, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2002
“Knowingness”, Innerspace, Birmingham, AL, 2001
“Post Pop Illusion”, Innerspace, Birmingham, AL 2000
Group Exhibitions
“Inside Out”, The Rymer Gallery, Nashville, TN, 2008
“I Cover the Waterfront” curated by Stephen Aiken, Photographicnyc SDCA Seaport District Cultural Association, New York, NY, 2007
“Readers Art 7”, National exhibition of artists books, curated by Susan Hensel, Susan Hensel Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, 2007
“Art & Place: Materials at Hand”, curated by Clayton Colvin, “Space 301”, Mobile, AL, 2007
“Postcards from the Edge”, A Benefit for Visual AIDS, Sperone Westwater Gallery, NYC, 2002, Galerie Lelong – NYC, 2003, Robert Millery Gallery, 2005, Kikemma Jenkins and Co., 2006
“Interdependence Art Show”, curated by Nomi Kleinman and Juan-Carlos Castro, New York, NY, Fall 2006
“Contour: The Definitive Line”, Curator, Schedler Minchin Gallery, June 2006
“Dulwich Art Fair”, Laserhouse Gallery, London, June 2 – 4, 2006
“Paper”, Laserhouse Gallery, London, England, 2005
“ Ten Thousand Lines”, Soho D&H Gallery, curated by Irene Nikolai, New York, NY – featured artist 2005
“Magic City Arts Connection”, Eileen Kunzman, Birmingham, AL, 2005
“Going Within”, selected curator for Visual AIDS, New York City, January 2005
“EXTREMES: a group show of PHOTOGRAPHY, WORKS ON PAPER AND PAINTINGS”, curated by Emmanuelle Gauthier for Intersections New York, Brooklyn, NY, 2005
“Chromaluxe”, Soho D&H Gallery, curated by Irene Nikolai and Emmanuelle Guathier, New York, NY, 2005
“Bits n’ Pieces”, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 2004
“AAF 2004 London”, Laserhouse Gallery of England, London, UK, 2004
“New Directions”, Barrett Art Center curated by Tumelo Mosaka, Curator of Contemporary Art at The Brooklyn Museum of Art in NYC, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2003
“Frieze Art Fair” (2 – person) Galerie Gora, Montreal, Canada, 17 – 20 October, Regent’s Park, London, UK, 2003
“Scent”, Dinaburg Fine Arts, New York, NY, 2003
“AAF 2003 London”, Galerie Gora, Montreal, Canada, London, UK, 2003
“Barcelona New Arte ‘02”, represented by Galerie Gora of Montreal, Barcelona, Spain, 2002
“Affordable Art Fair”, Galerie Gora, Montreal, Canada/Jeffrey Coploff Gallery, Chelsea, New York, 2002
“Therapeutic Groupings”, Coca Cola Headquarters curated by Della Patterson, Atlanta, GA, 2002
“New Directions”, Barrett Art Center curated by Joan Young, curator of Contemporary Art at the Solomon Guggenheim Museum in NYC, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2002
“The Longest Winter”, Schmidt Center Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, curated by Gean Moreno, Boca Raton, FL, 2002
“G.O.R.A. inMotus”, Eyedrum, curated by J. M. Walker, Atlanta, GA, 2002
“Realism and Everyday Life: A Survey”, Curated by Georgine Clark, Alabama State Council on the Arts, Montgomery, AL, 2001
“Hypnotic Post: Atlanta Abstraction Now”, curated by Michael Pittari of art Papers, Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, GA 2000
“House & Garden – Twists on Domesticity”, Space One Eleven, Birmingham, AL 2000
“Drawing to a Close”, Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA, 2000