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...everything and everyone in sight. Mentor of the group is San Francisco Sculptor Peter Voulkos, now 44, who a decade ago at Los Angeles' Otis Art Institute introduced a whole generation of art students to ceramics. Among his disciples was Berkeley's James Melchert, 37, who today turns out baffling ceramic figurines molded like coffee mugs, Mickey Mouse heads or crumpled rags; they are to be used as "players" on a six-foot-square, diamond-patterned board in mystical, Melchert-invented games that the spectator is supposed to play against himself. When Melchert had an exhibition recently...
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