APRIL 18 — MAY 11, 2009

Opening Reception Saturday, April 18, 5-9 p.m.

View a catalog of the show

Recently accepted into the 2010 Venice Biennale, New York City artist Jon Coffelt was kind enough to fly in and install Communion; a show of over one hundred handmade miniature sculptures, tiny articles of clothing. Deceptively simple upon first impression, visitors to the gallery soon came to find out that the garments were much more than just “clothing”.

It was a show that demonstrated Jon’s mastery of many things: of clothing construction, of hand stitching, of concept. It was a body of work that honored all the anonymous but supremely important people who have impacted our lives.

“Each piece represents a person,” says Jon. “Many of those people have passed, and so the piece of clothing is a fragment. The pieces are just fragments of ourselves—people that we may have been at one time, or will be at some point.”

The name of the show (Communion) refers to the collaboration that happens between Jon and the person who commissions the miniature garment to be made. It also symbolizes the sense of the community that is generated by seeing all the pieces displayed at the same time.