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a.Muse Gallery
June 9 - July 28, 2016Info
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http://www.yourmusegallery.com/
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(415) 279-6281
Reception
June 9, 2016 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
With 23 | 85, a.Muse Gallery introduces a rather shocking concept: the mixing of age and experience in this current culture of age segregation and an ever widening generation gap. Twenty-three year old painter/sculptor Ethan Caflisch and eighty-five year old veteran artist Jim Melchert join artistic forces in this upcoming exhibit in San Francisco’s Mission District. Jim Melchert’s primary medium for the past three decades has been ceramic tiles—tiles that have been purposely broken to reveal their interior structure. Through drawing on them with lines that follow or run counter to the shape on the crack, glazing and re-firing the pieces, the artist develops themes and textures that move beyond the happenstance of broken ceramics. Melchert, born in Ohio in 1930, studied art history at Princeton University, painting at the University of Chicago, and ceramics with Peter Voulkos at the University of California, Berkeley. His work has been shown at the Whitney, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Tate Liverpool, and the the Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo and been acquired by SFMOMA, LACMA, The Museum of Art and Design in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Kyoto, the Stedelijk in Amsterdam, and the V&A in London. Melchert is represented by Anglim Gilbert Gallery (San Francisco) and Paul Kotula Projects (Detroit). Born in Wisconsin in 1993, Caflisch has been working with ceramics since the age of 11. He’s lived abroad in Germany, and studied drawing and painting at College of Visual Art in Minneapolis. He recently graduated with honors from the California College of the Arts. Caflisch has shown at numerous institutions including Southern Exposure, the Compound Gallery, the V.C. Morris Gift Shop, the Cumhuriyet Museum - Istanbul, and the Louie-Meager Art Gallery and is represented by Art SF Blog (San Francisco and Montreal).