Michele Zalopany

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Michele Zalopany (born 1955) is an American artist, [1] known in particular for her large-scale pastel paintings. [2] [3] Zalopany exhibited in the 1989 Whitney Biennial. [4] [5]

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Zalopany's work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, [1] the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, [6] and the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. [7]

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