Melissa Oresky
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Wonsook Kim School of Art
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Center for the Visual Arts - CVA 212D
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Biography
Melissa Oresky makes work in painting and collage, with a particular interest in landscape as a space that bridges painting, lived experience, environmental consciousness, and speculation. She has been exhibiting for twenty years, in cities throughout the United States, as well as in Germany; New Zealand; and South Korea.
Current Courses
331.001Advanced Drawing
262.001Painting II
360.001Painting III:Non-Representational Abstraction
261.001Painting Survey
361.001Studio Practice and Critique
461.001Studio Practice and Critique
104.001Visual Thinking: Drawing Fundamentals
104.002Visual Thinking: Drawing Fundamentals
MFA
The University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL
BFA
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL
University Creative Activity Award
Illinois State University
2020
Individual Artist Fellowship
Illinois Arts Council
2005
Journal Article
“Composting in the herbarium” (co-authored with Melissa Oresky), Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture (Autumn 2020) issue 52, pgs. 156-172.
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