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 is imbued 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.

"Cosmos"
Whether he is tracing a particular mood on a certain day or meditating on painting's connection to a larger framework, Coffelt takes pleasure in his undertaking. Banana Fingerprint Cosmos proposes the possibility that the painter may indeed leave a significant trace of his creative activity. The image that Coffelt produces in his dot-populated Cosmos paintings rhymes with Larry Poons's ellipses, Ross Bleckner's celestial vaults and the patterns of Australian aboriginal textiles-an arc of reference that we trace across historical movements and diverse cultures. As quickly as we summon reference, however, we are arrested with the delicate beauty of the surface and the touch of the artist's own fingertips, pressed onto the pigmented surface imbued with its own identity-Coffelt's cosmos. -David Moos, curator AGO, Toronto Ontario

"Circuitry"
Currently I am exploring duct-tape and new technologies concerning it. I subvert it by utilizing it alongside traditional mediums such as paper, vellum and Tyvek. I navigate the contrasting world of computer motherboards and/or grids/ traffic patterns/ street plans. I interpret them in ways to draw in the viewer into dialog, continuing explorations of methodologies and relationships. Though linearly based, these works do allude to organic structuring.

I do suggest, however, that this marriage between duct-tape and vellum is total debauchery. It's play on materials, textures and colors furthers my premise as an artist of working with opposition in every way possible. This multilayering and sometimes grafting of colors refer to different ideologies within each piece inflating the notion of a universe where subversives become part of the fabric of what is a known truth but instead of causing it to unravel, they make the weak parts stronger.

BIOGRAPHY

I am a full-time artist living and working in downtown Manhattan. I use many different objectives and mediums to make art including appropriation, illustration, book arts, collage, painting and sculpture. As a post-modernist. I consider myself a colorist who works with primarily the ideas of chaos and order. My work has been seen in many diverse areas including Atlanta, Birmingham, Boston, Brooklyn, Chattanooga, Los Angeles, Nashville, New Orleans, New York, Miami, Minneapolis and Mobile, Philadelphia, San Francisco as well as, Barcelona, Kyoto, London, Montreal and Tokyo.