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Alyssa was Born 1977 in New Jersey, Alyssa Monks began oil painting as a child. She studied at The New School in New York and Montclair State University and earned her B.A.from Boston College in 1999
During this time she studied painting at Lorenzo de' Medici in Florence. She went on to earn her M.F.A from the New York Academy of Art, Graduate School of Figurative Art in 2001. She completed an artist in residency at Fullerton College in 2006 and has lectured and taught at universities and institution nation wide
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Alyssa says "My intent is to transcend both my subject and the paint itself. I aim to discover something that resonates as deeply as my often-vulnerable inner experience. Transferring an expression of this human experience to someone who will really open and relate to it creates human connection. I urge people to see the work in person, if possible. Paintings are objects you need to be in the same room with to feel the intimacy of their surface. I like mine to be as intimate as possible, using the painted surface like a fossil, recording every gesture and decision."
Monks's paintings have been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions including "Intimacy" at the Kunst Museum in Ahlen, Germany and "Reconfiguring the Body in American Art, 1820-2009" at the National Academy Museum of Fine Arts, New York. Her work is represented in public and private collections, including the Savannah College of Arts, the Somerset Art Association and the collections of Howard Tullman, Danielle Steele and Eric Fischl
Alyssa with her magic brush
Alyssa's exhibitions
The Windows View, Eno Gallery, Hillsborough, NC, 2014
Take Home a Nude, NYAA, NY, 2014
Re-presenting the Nude, Evoke Contemporary Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, 2014
Art Southampton 2014 with NYAA, Art Southampton Pavilion, Southampton Elks Lodge, Southampton, NY, 2014
New York Academy Summer Exhibition, Flowers Gallery, New York, NY, 2014
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