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Jim Melchert: Selected works, 1993-2020

January 20, 2023
in Ceramic art
Mirror Box No. 4
Mirror Box No. 12
Mirror Box No. 2
Mirror Box No. 15
Flight
Feathers Of A Phoenix
Alternating Current #4
Alternating Current #2
EDO
Riven/River
Riven/River (detail)
Short Score In Red And Black
19 Minutes
North Atlantic
Arles
Chinese Vodka (“A” Panel)

Jim Melchert: Selected works, 1993-2020

Over his fifty-year career, Jim Melchert has cast a remarkably long shadow of grace and influence in the Ceramic arts community. Melchertโ€™s work โ€œcan be described, at once accurately and poetically, as a transcendent exploration of mending. Using commercially-manufactured floor tile as his primary material, Melchert engages in deliberate breakage and consequent, system-based repair and elaboration.โ€ Maria Porges

A powerful concept that has guided Melchert’s explorations over the past three decades is reminiscent of the Japanese tradition of Kintsugi, a process of mending something broken. The concept of mending can also be seen as a political action against the increasing pressure of our consumerist society. In his work, we see a Zen-like interaction, an acceptance of change as aspects of human life. โ€œWhen clay is broken, the gift it gives you is discovering the interior structure. Itโ€™s like someone who has just made a first move in chessโ€”itโ€™s a challengeโ€ฆ you move, then the other person makes a move. Whatever I do, the tile comes back with a response.โ€ Jim Melchert

Melchert was born in 1930 in Ohio, and he received degrees from Princeton and the University of California, Berkeley, studying ceramics under Peter Voulkos as his teaching assistant. He taught at SFAI and is a Professor Emeritus at U.C. Berkeley. In 1977, he was hired by the National Endowment for the Arts as Director of the Visual Arts Program. In 1984, Melchert became the Director of the American Academy in Rome.

Melchertโ€™s work has been exhibited are the Whitney Museum and the Museum of Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Museums of Contemporary Art in Houston and Los Angeles; at the Museums of Modern Art in San Francisco, Tokyo, and Kyoto; The Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and Documenta 5 in Kassel, Germany.

Jim Melchert’s work is represented by Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA.

Captions

  • Mirror Box No. 4, 2020, Mirrors, Broken and fired porcelain tile in handcrafted wooden box, 8 x 8 x 8 inches
  • Mirror Box No. 12, 2020, Mirrors, Broken and fired porcelain tile in handcrafted wooden box, 8 x 8 x 8 inches
  • Mirror Box No. 2, 2020, Mirrors, Broken and fired porcelain tile in handcrafted wooden box, 8 x 8 x 8 inches
  • Mirror Box No. 15, 2020, Mirrors, Broken and fired porcelain tile in handcrafted wooden box, 8 x 8 x 8 inches, Courtesy of Gallery 16, San Francisco.
  • Flight, 2014, Broken and fired porcelain tile with glaze 71×71 inches. Courtesy of SFMOMA, San Francisco
  • Feathers Of A Phoenix, 2003, Broken and fired porcelain tile with glaze 78×78 inches. Courtesy of di Rosa Center For Contemporary Art, Napa, CA.
  • Alternating Current #4, 1985, Fired porcelain tile with glaze, 40 x 40 inches
  • Alternating Current #2, 1985, Fired porcelain tile with glaze, 40 x 40 inches
  • EDO, 2007, Broken and fired porcelain tile with glaze, 18 x 36 inches, Courtesy of Gallery 16, San Francisco.
  • Riven/River, 2014, Broken and fired porcelain tile with glaze 71×166 inches. San Francisco International Airport.
  • Short Score In Red And Black, 2011, Broken and fired porcelain tile with glaze, 36 x 54 inches
  • 19 Minutes, 2007, Broken and fired porcelain tile with glaze, 18 x 18 inches, Courtesy of Gallery 16, San Francisco.
  • North Atlantic, 2005, Broken and fired porcelain tile with glaze, 90 x 72 inches
  • Arles, 1993, Glazed and layered tile scraps, 11.75 x 11.75 x 1.4 inches
  • Chinese Vodka (“A” Panel), 1994, Glazed and layered tile scraps, 12 x 12 x .5 inches
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