Alyssa Monks is a creative painter who was born 1977 in Ridgewood, New Jersey. She began oil painting as a child also 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 at universities and institution nation wide. She has taught Flesh Painting at the New York Academy of Art, as well as Montclair State University and the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts.
Alyssa has been awarded the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant for Painting three times and is a member of the New York Academy of Art’s Board of Trustees. Alyssa is currently represented by David Klein Gallery in Birmingham, Michigan. Alyssa currently lives and paints in Brooklyn, New York.
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10 – Laughing Girl By Alyssa Monks
09 – Fish By Alyssa Monks
08 – Fixation By Alyssa Monks
07 – Lansing Commission By Alyssa Monks
06 – Risk By Alyssa Monks
05 – Tonic By Alyssa Monks
04 – Weight By Alyssa Monks
03 – Wake By Alyssa Monks
02 – Baptism By Alyssa Monks
01 – Think By Alyssa Monks
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