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Alyssa Monks: Artist, editor and writer.
Monks’s paintings are of a representational narrative genre. She portrays a specific place and time with simultaneous empathy and detachment. Monks is part of the Continuing Education Faculty at the New York Academy of Art, where she teaches Flesh Painting and Working from photographic reference. She earned her BA from Boston College and an MFA in painting from the New York Academy of Art, Graduate School of Figurative Art. She additionally studied at the New School, and Lorenzo de’Medici in Florence. She completed an artist in residency at Fullerton College. Monks has been awarded the Grant for Painting from the Elizabeth Greensheilds Foundation three times and has had recent solo shows in New York and Anaheim, California. Alyssa is currently represented by Sarah Bain Gallery in Anaheim and DFN Gallery in New York.