Jon Coffelt

Jon Coffelt

            Jon Coffelt works out of New York City on his paintings, sculptures, and other types of art, including book art and sewing.  Coffelt began his career with fashion, until switching to a full-time artist.  He has many different styles of artwork in his portfolio.  One of these types is his Ritual Sticks, in which he wraps wooden dowel rods with colored tapes.  To Coffelt, the art of the Ritual Sticks is emphasized in the process of wrapping the sticks than the finished product.  Most of Coffelt’s works, especially his Wellen series, have a theme of repetition and attention to the process of creation.

            I find it interesting that Coffelt focuses more on his method of creating the art, and cares less for how it looks in the end.  His works reflect the repetition and control that he seeks in his artistic process, and his Ritual Sticks accurately reflect that he indeed believes creating art is a ritual for him.  I also like the amount of detail and precision that Jon Coffelt puts into his work, such as with his Wellen series, which is created entirely out of small pieces of duct-tape.  I was also very interested in his Miniature Clothing Project, because it reflects his roots working in the fashion industry, and he also uses the miniature clothing items as a portrait of the person it represents, due to the emotional ties people have to clothing.