Jon Coffelt - Work

Work

• In 1999, Coffelt was chosen to be part of an exhibit at The Birmingham Museum of Art called "Galore: The Continuous Painting Wall," curated by David Moos and in 2002 when Coffelt received the "City of Birmingham Distinguished Artist Award" in Birmingham, Alabama, David Moos wrote the foreword for the published catalog.

• In 2000, Michael Pittari, editor of Art Papers curated "Hypnotic Post: Atlanta Abstraction Now" at Swan Coach House Gallery, Coffelt was selected along with twelve other artists for "Post Hypnotic-Hypnotic Post" millennium celebration of the arts.

• In 2000, Coffelt's work was chosen for "House and Garden: Twists on Domesticity," at Space One Eleven, Birmingham, AL through a grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts. The exhibition included the work of Karen Rich Beall also included a catalog with a foreword on Coffelt by David Moos. In this exhibition, Coffelt hand-sewed more than 250 miniature garments that were exhibited here using original fabrics from clothing surrendered by individuals across the country to produce exact replicas keeping the integrity of these pieces intact with the fabrics, shapes and seams of the garments. Coffelt calls these memory sculptures because most of the pieces came from a loved one.

• In 2002, Coffelt's work was selected to be part of "The Longest Winter" curated by Gean Moreno for Florida Atlantic University. This exhibition asks viewers to rethink notions of the domestic as the cookie-cut "normal" place it is often depicted to be. Moreno explains, "The artists in 'The Longest Winter' demonstrate that the domestic is the native ground of weird imaginations, of deranging methods and private methodologies."

• In 2007, Clayton Colvin curated "Art and Place II: Material at Hand" for Center for the Living Arts/Space 301 featuring the work of Coffelt and nine other artists. This exhibition deals with the influence that a sense of place can have on the artist. The focus here lies in the significance of medium in artists' work "and how their chosen media may also function as the content or the subject.

• Fall of 2008, Coffelt's work was selected to be part of "Mend: Love Life & Loss" curated by Mark Sloan for Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at College of Charleston School of the Arts in Charleston, South Carolina. Other artists in this exhibition included Pinky Bass and Nava Lubelski.

• For January/February 2009, "Fiberarts Magazine" featured Coffelt's "Miniature Clothing Project" in its Creative Process section. Coffelt uses cherished items of clothing to create miniature replica garments as tiny symbols of people and events, folded in time.