The a Show (1970)

'a' as in Anagram

'a'-OK (Oak 'a')

Rugged 'a'

Precious 'a'

Surreal 'a'

Jim Melchert's Berkeley Way Studio

Jim Melchert in the studio

'a' Show Installation

'a' Made 4 Pounds Lighter

Seven-Eighths of an 'a'

'a' Flat

'a' for Allegory

Palmer Penmanship #2

'a' for Magritte

'a' for Magritte

Alegorical 'a'

'a' Show Installation

Fetish 'a'

Optical 'a'

Spaces of 'a'

Precious 'a'

Spaces of 'a'

Seven-Eighths of an 'a'

Institutionally Corrected 'a'

Grotesque 'a' (Back)

Pre-'a'

Ex-'a'

Classic 'a' in the studio

Grotesque 'a' (Front)

Jim Melchert with Straight 'a'

Straight 'a'

'a' Show Installation

Funk 'a'

'a' as in Anagram

'a' Index

Anomaly 'a'

'a' Made 4 Pounds Lighter

Finished 'a'

Pattern for Classic 'a'

Precious 'a'

Abstract 'a'

Strap 'a'

Chain 'a'

'a' Bomb

Palmer Penmanship #1

In the late ‘60s I came across a book by Raymond Roussel called “Exercises in Style” in which he based a hundred-some variations on an incident barely worth noting. Yet, retold through my diverse perspectives and narrative forms, his multiple reinventions were too engaging not to try my hand at it. I took as my subject the lower case “a” that is both a letter and a word and on paper as flat as it can be.