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Melissa Pokorny

Melissa Pokorny creates sculptural works that question ways of knowing the world and illuminate the invisible, intangible, and knotty attachments between temporal, geographical, and material things. She earned a BFA from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and an MFA from University of California , Davis.

Her work has been exhibited at venues throughout the United States, including Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco; Southern Exposure, San Francisco; New Langton Arts, San Francisco; Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois, Chicago; and the Richard E. Peeler Art Center, Greencastle, Indiana. Pokorny is a professor of painting and sculpture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she also serves as the executive associate director of the School of Art and Design. Pokorny lives and works in Urbana, Illinois.

Exhibitions

High Touch

March 21, 2021–February 28, 2022

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