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Gallery 16 is honored to announce an upcoming exhibition with Jim Melchert. Over his fifty year career Melchert has cast a remarkably long shadow of grace and influence in the Bay Area art community. This exhibition will be a survey of sorts, not an all encompassing view of his 50 year career, but rather a selection of works that span from the 1970’s to present day. Jim Melchert’s work “can 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 …