Gallery Paule Anglim is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent work by Jim Melchert.

Melchert will present a series of single ceramic panels, each a large tile that has been dropped and broken, where the cracks and lines of breakage dictate abstract forms. His new works bring together interesting properties of drawing and painting in the format of a sculptural object.

Inspired by notions of pulse and vibration within structures and shapes, Melchert enlivens his broken porcelain compositions by means of a new kind of formal experimentation. Playing within the cracked lines, the tensions between organic oval shapes (drawn by swirling liquid glaze until the edges set up to define rock-like forms) and pure geometry (circles drawn in grid formation) conjure up movement and depth.

Jim Melchert has been at the vortex of the Bay Area conceptual and ceramics art movements, demonstrating a fresh and inspirational approach combining both practices.

His work has been exhibited widely, at the Berkeley Art Museum, SFMOMA, the Oakland Museum, Tate Liverpool and the

Victoria & Albert Museum in London.