Jim Melchert

Jim Melchert (born 1930, New Bremen, Ohio) is an American artist best known for his ceramics and sculptures.

Jim Melchert
Born
James Frederick Melchert

1930
New Bremen, Ohio
EducationUniversity of Chicago | University of California, Berkeley
Known forCeramics, Fine Art

Education

After earning an AB in art history from Princeton in 1952, he moved to Japan where he taught English for four years. Upon returning to the United States, he earned postgraduate degrees in painting at the University of Chicago (1957) and ceramics under Peter Voulkos at the University of California, Berkeley (1961).[1]

Artwork

Throughout his career, Melchert worked with many media, including painting, drawing, performance art, film, and most notably sculpture and ceramics. His unique process involves breaking down, drawing on, and reassembling ceramic tiles before painting the new constructions with glaze.[2][3]

As part of the Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America, Melchert donated his papers to the Smithsonian’s Archive of American Arts in 2004 and 2019–2021.[4]

His work is held by in over two dozen collections, including the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, The Museum of Arts and Design and Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Collections

Appointments
  • 1961–65 San Francisco Art Institute
  • 1965–92 University of California, Berkeley
  • 1977–81 National Endowment for the Arts Director, Visual Arts Program
  • 1984–88 American Academy in Rome, Director

Publications
  • The Ceramic Presence in Modern Art: Selections from the Linda Leonard Schlenger Collection and the Yale University Art Gallery by Sequoia Miller With an essay by John Stuart Gordon, 2015[9]
  • Shapes From Out of Nowhere Ceramics From the Robert A. Ellison, Jr. Collection[10]

References
  1. "Bio". Jim Melchert. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
  2. "Jim Melchert | Smithsonian American Art Museum". americanart.si.edu. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
  3. "Home". Jim Melchert. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
  4. "James Melchert papers, 1950-2021". www.aaa.si.edu. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
  5. "Melchert, Jim". SFMOMA. Retrieved 23 October 2021.
  6. "Untitled (Vessel)". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 2021-10-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. Grrr.nl. "Changes - Jim Melchert". www.stedelijk.nl. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
  8. "Black A | LACMA Collections". collections.lacma.org. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
  9. Miller, Sequoia (2015). The Ceramic Presence in Modern Art: Selections from the Linda Leonard Schlenger Collection and the Yale University Art Gallery. Yale University Art Gallery. ISBN 978-0300214406.
  10. Spinozzi, Adrienne (2021). Shapes From Out of Nowhere: Ceramics from the Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection. August Editions. ISBN 978-1947359062.
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