About

Melissa Cooke is a young, up-and-coming player on the international art scene. Her powdered graphite on paper works explore themes of beauty, fantasy, violence, and identity, with the artist casting herself as subject in a myriad of thematic scenarios. Her work confronts the viewer, both with scale and stirring reflections of relationships, sexuality and gender. Her drawings are attracting attention from major art galleries, museums and collectors in Chicago, LA and NYC. Cooke is represented by Koplin Del Rio in Los Angeles, CA and Jenkins Johnson Gallery in New York, NY.

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ONE WEEK until the opening of “SURFACED”

May 19th-June 16th
Opening reception Saturday May 19th, 5-7pm. Artist’s Remarks at 5pm
Koplin Del Rio Gallery, 6031 Washington Blvd, Culver City, CA 90232

Hope to see you there!

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“Masked”
May, 2008, Project Lodge, Madison, WI

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NOW ON DISPLAY
“Too Much But Never Enough” and “Everything is Clear in the Dark” at Davidson Galleries in Seattle, WA
October 6-29th
http://www.davidsongalleries.com/subjects/blurring/blurring.php

NOW ON DISPLAY

“Too Much But Never Enough” and “Everything is Clear in the Dark” at Davidson Galleries in Seattle, WA

October 6-29th

http://www.davidsongalleries.com/subjects/blurring/blurring.php

Now on display at Purdue University“Sometimes I Disappear”
And check out the write up in the Lafayette Journal and Courierhttp://www.jconline.com/article/20110818/ENT01/108180303/Artist-Melissa-Cooke-creates-provocative-pieces-graphite

Now on display at Purdue University
“Sometimes I Disappear”

And check out the write up in the Lafayette Journal and Courier
http://www.jconline.com/article/20110818/ENT01/108180303/Artist-Melissa-Cooke-creates-provocative-pieces-graphite

“Vacuum” now on view at the Museum of Wisconsin Art

“Vacuum” now on view at the Museum of Wisconsin Art

“Face To Face: The Changing Face of Portraiture”
April 3-May 27, 2011, Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, CA

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Lost Inside You Art Lofts Gallery, University of Wisconsin

Lost Inside You
Art Lofts Gallery, University of Wisconsin

Lost Inside You : The PhotographsArt Lofts Gallery, University of Wisconsin

Lost Inside You : The Photographs
Art Lofts Gallery, University of Wisconsin

“The Wisconsin Triennial”
May 22-August 15, 2010, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI

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“You Know Me Better Than I Know Myself”
February 27-April 10, 2010, Koplin Del Rio, Los Angeles, CA