Michael Kalish

Student art

Mike Kalish

I make small abstract sculptures and sculptural jewelry, primarily through electroforming, fold forming, soldering and enameling. The current work presents my continuing attempt to reconcile myself with myself as a result of the sudden death of my wife in 2018. I engage in a meditative process of production-oriented toward moods, toward the eerie, and away from understanding. Alternately folding and refolding, enameling and removing enamel, electroforming and soldering, the interaction of chance, intention, and longing dream these objects into being.

Mike Kalish (b.1964) spent his childhood outside Albany, NY. He discovered an interest in making sculpture during his first semester of college. An intervening lifetime returned Kalish to upstate New York, and to the organized pursuit of his art. A student of affordances, our sensitivities still confound him.