Art Department Wednesday Talks

For more than 20 years, veteran Bay Area conceptualist Jim Melchert has been experimenting with ceramic tile -- specifically, with what happens when he breaks it into pieces by dropping it onto a hard surface. The wall works that result from these investigations consist of the reassembled shards of one or more large floor tiles, patterned with drawn or painted marks. Melchert focuses on what these lines reveal about the intrinsic composition of the clay itself.