Coit’s career as a professional interdisciplinary artist spans fifty years and has produced numerous series in media including sprayed-oil paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, installation, video projection, writing, performance, and neon pieces. The environment in flux influences her work and often is the direct subject. Her work has been exhibited nationally at the Los Angeles County Museum, the Hammer Museum, the San Antonio Art Institute, and the Anchorage Museum of Art. Locally, she has shown work in Santa Fe at the New Mexico Museum of Art, the Center for Contemporary Arts, SITE Santa Fe, AXLE Contemporary, Gerald Peters Gallery, and James Kelly Contemporary. Her work is in the collections of the State of New Mexico, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the Skirball Museum in Los Angeles, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe, and has been featured in publications such as THE Magazine, ARTnews, and Artweek. She received her BFA from the University of Connecticut.
Statement
As an artist, I find what is hidden—then I choose how best to reveal what I have found. For nearly fifty years, I have pursued my fascination with peering around and through barriers, with what lies beyond surfaces, with presenting things from multiple perspectives, with the interplay of light and shadow, and with exploring the myriad possibilities of perception.
I pursue these ideas through numerous media. My studio practice began with trompe l'oeil graphite drawings, and has grown to include sprayed oil paintings (some with 200 layers of paint); mirrored Lucite boxes that house perforated drawings (supplying unexpected portraits of the voyeur); interactive pop-up paper constructions; readings and performances; time-lapse and real time video; text-based works made from neon or steel; deconstructed books; symbolic furniture; polycarbonate sculptures; and installations made of reclaimed newsprint, to name a few.
Though widely diverse in execution, each of the works speak to revelation—celebrating an unveiling, a hidden discovery, or an “aha moment.”
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