Alyssa Monks e il realismo #painting LC ARTicle. laboratoriocreativo.org/alyssa-monks-e-il-realismo/ 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. Thick paint strokes in delicate color relationships are pushed and pulled to imitate glass, steam, earth, fog, rain, water and flesh from a distance. However, up close, the delicious physical properties of oil paint are apparent. Thus sustaining the moment when abstract paint strokes become something else. My intent is to transcend both my subject and the paint itself to discover something that resonates deeply as my, often vulnerable, personal experience. Transferring that expression of this human experience to someone who opens to it and relates to it creates human connection. This is my goal. I urge you to see the work in person, if possible, or investigate the close up details on my website to see the surfaces. Paintings are objects you need to be in the same room with to feel their intimacy. I like mine to be as intimate as possible, using the painted surface like a fossil recording every gesture and decision. Monkss 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 has been awarded the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant for Painting three times and is a member of the New York Academy of Arts Board of Trustees. She is currently represented by David Klein Gallery in Birmingham, Michigan. Alyssa currently lives and paints in Brooklyn, New York.
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