Gallery Talk | Melissa Oresky

January 10 - February 14, 2020
Gallery Talk: Friday, January 7, 5 PM

Join artist Melissa Oresky and Dr. Keith Pluymers, assistant professor in the department of History at Illinois State University, as they discuss Oresky's exhibition Growing Time, on view from January 10 - February 14. Oresky's paintings and drawings are guided by the processes of plants: their iterative growth, movement, decay, and regeneration.

Melissa Oresky has shown her work in painting, collage, and video nationally and internationally, with recent shows at Tripod Space Project, Busan, South Korea; Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago; Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, Illinois; Minnesota State University, Mankato; and K. Imperial Fine Art, San Francisco. Oresky received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and an MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has attended residencies including Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine, and The Santa Fe Art Institute, New Mexico. Originally from Maryland, she lives and works in Normal, Illinois, where she is a Professor of Painting and Drawing at Illinois State University.

Dr. Keith Pluymers is Assistant Professor in the department of History at Illinois State University where he works on early modern environmental history. Prior to joining ISU, he was a postdoctoral instructor at Caltech and did a PhD at the University of Southern California. His book, "No Wood, No Kingdom: Political Ecology in the English Atlantic" is under contract with the University of Pennsylvania Press.