Alyssa Monks was the artist who was being featured at the David Klein gallery when I went and I love the realism in her work, as well as the abstraction in water. She has a really nice website which I took most of the information from and has a lot of her work where you can see that she has a particular interest with people immersed in water.
She was born in 1977 in Ridgewood New Jersey. She started oil painting as a child and went further on to study at the New School in New York and Montclair State University. Earned her BA from Boston College in 1999. She then went on to study painting in Florence. Afterwards she earned a MFA from the New York Academy of Art.
She has lectured at universities nationwide, and has also taught flesh painting t the New York academy of art where she had studied. In her work she tends to explore the tension between abstraction and realism, distorting the body. Which I definitely noticed in her work where the people looked so very real and the water in the ones I saw abstracted the people as well as being painted in a more abstracted way. Which is essentially what she strives for as she strives to pain people in the most real way that she can. Doing that she discovered that realism and abstraction were symbiotic to her which leads to what she does today.
Art Work:
Resources:
http://alyssamonks.com/
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