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Add languages{{Short description|American painter}}
{{More footnotes|date=May 2017}}
'''Alyssa Monks''' (born 1977) is an American painter currently based in Brooklyn. She specializes in large oil paintings and is recognized both in the United States and Europe for her work featuring figures obscured by water, steam, and vinyl.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/410329/alyssa-monks/|title=The Rustic Renewal of a Brooklyn Artist|last=Ajaka|first=Nadine|website=The Atlantic|access-date=2017-07-08}} Her notable series of work centering around figures in bathrooms, tubs, and showers garnered attention from the worldwide art community and the press.{{Cite web |date=2017-02-27 |title=OBSCURING ATMOSPHERES AND PUSHING THE COMPLEXITIES OF PAINTING LANGUAGE TO FIND THE LINE BETWEEN ABSTRACTION AND ILLUSION MEET ALYSSA MONKS |url=https://www.artjobs.com/arts/interview/alyssa-monks/obscuring-atmospheres-and-pushing-complexities-painting-language-find |access-date=2022-08-25 |website=Art Jobs |language=en}}
==Personal life==
A native of [[Ridgewood, New Jersey]],{{Cite web|url=https://www.artistsnetwork.com/artist-life/may-i-introduce-alyssa-monks/|title=May I Introduce Alyssa Monks?|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}} Monks was born in 1977 as the youngest of eight children (six older brothers and one sister). Her mother, being a potter and artist herself, was supportive of Monks' interest in art and found ways to help her cultivate her love for the arts. By eight years old, Monks was taking general art and painting classes. She is based in [[Williamsburg, Brooklyn]].
==Education==
After graduating from [[Immaculate Heart Academy]] in 1995,[https://www.immaculateheartnj.com/apps/news/article/676808 "Alyssa Monks'95 Named in Top 30 Most Influential Women Artists"], [[Immaculate Heart Academy]]. Accessed June 21, 2020. " Listed at #16, Alyssa Monks'95 is named one of the 30 Most Influential Women Artists Alive Today." Monks went on to attend [[The New School]] in New York and [[Montclair State University]] before earning her B.A. at [[Boston College]] in 1999. Monks went on to study painting at [[Lorenzo de’ Medici]] in [[Florence, Italy]] and then returned to the United States to earn her M.F.A. from the [[New York Academy of Art]], in their Graduate School of Figurative Art in 2001. In 2006, Monks completed an artist in residency at [[Fullerton College]] in [[California]].
==Work==
In Monks’ early works the environment comes forward, with some of her paintings featuring interiors without figures, or interiors in which the figure is only a small element. Her eye for these spaces explores the figure as both a form and a place.{{Cite web |title=Alyssa Monks – Lines and Colors |url=http://linesandcolors.com/2007/03/02/alyssa-monks/ |access-date=2022-08-26 |language=en-US}} As her work evolved, her figures become more complete than their portrait counterparts, as Monks felt that she needed to be “as realistic as possible; It had to be specific and believable” as “this was the place where (she) was isolated and in total control.”{{cite web |url=https://www.ted.com/talks/alyssa_monks_how_loss_helped_one_artist_find_beauty_in_imperfection |title=Alyssa Monks: How loss helped one artist find beauty in imperfection |website=TED.com |date= |accessdate=May 17, 2017 }}
Monks then preferred to alter the audience’s sense of space and immersion in her artworks.{{citation needed|date=April 2017}} While her representation of the figure is often almost perfectly photographic in its depiction, she blurs and fuses layers of space to create immersive abstraction that feels uniquely intimate and provocative; she often includes the use of glass, clear vinyl, water, steam, and shallow spaces to distinguish a nearly invisible line between the foreground and backgrounds of her pieces. Monks’ most famous pieces come from her decade-long water series, where these elements are the most prevalent and recognizable. Monk's compositions also exhibit a quality of tension because of the way she of her use of the [[impasto]] technique.{{Cite web |url=http://alyssamonks.com/page/profile/4677/Bio |title=Alyssa Monks official website |last=Baldwin |first=David |date=November 19, 2018 |website=Alyssa Monks }}
However, this specificity and [[photorealism|photorealistic]] detail would not last. On October 8, 2011, Monks’ mother was diagnosed with [[lung cancer]] that had [[metastasis|spread throughout the rest of her body]], succumbing to it a year and three weeks after her diagnosis on October 26, 2012. When she returned to painting, ''Smear'' was one of her first pieces. “It’s like a release of everything that was unravelling in me,” she stated. “That safe, very, very carefully rendered safe place that I created in all of my other paintings was a myth; it didn’t work.” This tragic loss caused Monks to re-evaluate her process entirely, moving from the enclosed space of the bathroom to outside in the woods and integrating a chaotic, abstraction of nature into her work instead of the pristine and controlled layering of space. She even left paintings outside, exposed to the woods over night, just to see what kind of affect it would have — anything to inspire her to paint again and rekindle her love for art.
In March 2018 a ''[[The New York Times|New York Times]]'' article was written about Monks' artistic contributions to FX's hit TV show ''[[The Americans]]''. For its final season, Monks created the paintings and drawings used on set for the character Erica, an artist wife of a [[nuclear weapon|nuclear]] [[arms industry|arms dealer]] who is bedridden with cancer. Monks' work can be seen in the background of a critical scene for the final season of the show, in which the main character Elizabeth Jennings enters Erica's bedroom, disguised as an aid. Elizabeth is known for her inability to show emotion — the use of Monk's paintings was to disrupt this trait and serve as a turning point for the character. The show runners sought paintings for Elizabeth to see which, "unconsciously, like [[sleeper agent]]s, suggesting the kinds of intense emotions that she will never let herself feel. They had to be realistic, but not too realistic, passionate, but not over the top. They had to look as though they could have been painted in the 1980s".{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/23/arts/television/the-americans-fx-final-season.html |title=''The Americans'' Goes Dark(er), With Help From a Painter |last=Soloski |first=Alexis |date=March 23, 2018 |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=March 15, 2019 }}
==Exhibitions==
{{Update|section |date=August 2019 }}
Monks has shown her work across the globe, including one show, called ''Resolution'', which ran in spring 2016 at the Forum Gallery in New York City. Other notable shows and collections that include her work are the Kunst Museum in [[Ahlen]], Germany, the [[National Academy of Design|National Academy Museum of Fine Arts]]’ show ''Reconfiguring the Body in American Art, 1820–2009'', as well as the private collections of [[Eric Fischl]], Howard Tullman, Gerrity Lansing, [[Danielle Steel]], [[Alec Baldwin]], and [[Luciano Benetton]].{{cite web|url=http://www.alyssamonks.com/ |title=Paintings |publisher=Alyssa Monks |date= |accessdate=March 17, 2017 }}
== Awards ==
* Ranked 16 out of 30 in a list of the most influential women artist alive today by the graphic design degree hub.{{Cite web|url=https://www.graphicdesigndegreehub.com/30-most-influential-women-artists-alive-today/|title=30 Most Influential Women Artist Alive Today|last=|first=|date=|website=www.graphicdesigndegreehub.com|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}
* Awarded the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant for painting in 2003, and 2006.
*Won a travel grant from the Forbes Foundation to the Chateaux Balleroy in Normandy, France in 2001.
== Scholarships ==
* Academic Scholarship Award for the [[New York Academy of Art]] awarded in 1999 (M.F.A.)
* Awarded the Artplosion grant and the Stylus grant for [[Boston College]] in 1999 (B.A.){{Cite web|url=http://www.sarahbaingallery.com/monks_biography.html|title=Alyssa Monks Biography|last=|first=|date=|website=www.albemarlegallery.com|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2018-12-04}}
==Digital galleries==
*Artsy Gallery{{cite web|url=https://www.artsy.net/artist/alyssa-monks|title=Alyssa Monks : American, b. 1977|website=Artsy.net|accessdate=2017-05-17}}
*Personal Web Gallery
==Other sources==
* {{cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/410329/alyssa-monks/#disqus_thread |title=The Rustic Renewal of Brooklyn Artist Alyssa Monks |publisher=The Atlantic |date=2015-10-20 |accessdate=2017-05-17}}
* {{cite web|url=http://www.alyssamonks.com/ |title=Paintings |publisher=Alyssa Monks |date= |accessdate=2017-05-17}}
* {{cite web|url=http://www.hoctok.com/alyssa-monks.html |title=Alyssa Monks |website=HocTok.com |date= |accessdate=2017-05-17}}
* {{cite web|author= |url=http://www.graphicdesigndegreehub.com/30-most-influential-women-artists-alive-today/ |title=30 Most Influential Women Artists Alive Today |website=Graphicdesigndegreehub.com |date= |accessdate=2017-05-17}}
* {{cite web|url=http://artophilia.com/front-page/interview-alyssa-monks/ |title=Interview with Alyssa Monks |website=Artophilia.com |date= |accessdate=2017-05-17}}
* {{cite web|author= |url=http://dirtylaundrymag.com/articles/alyssa-monks/ |title=Connection | Dirty Laundry |website=Dirtylaundrymag.com |date=2015-03-05 |accessdate=2017-05-17}}
* {{cite web|url=https://www.ted.com/talks/alyssa_monks_how_loss_helped_one_artist_find_beauty_in_imperfection |title=Alyssa Monks: How loss helped one artist find beauty in imperfection | TED Talk |website=TED.com |date= |accessdate=2017-05-17}}
* {{cite web|url=http://www.artjobs.com/arts/interview/alyssa-monks/obscuring-atmospheres-and-pushing-complexities-painting-language-find# |title=Obscuring Atmospheres And Pushing The Complexities Of Painting Language To Find The Line Between Abstraction And Illusion Meet Alyssa Monks |publisher=Art Jobs |date= |accessdate=2017-05-17}}
==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Monks, Alyssa}}
[[Category:1977 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Boston College alumni]]
[[Category:Immaculate Heart Academy alumni]]
[[Category:New York Academy of Art alumni]]
[[Category:21st-century American painters]]
[[Category:People from Williamsburg, Brooklyn]]
{{Short description|American painter}}
{{More footnotes|date=May 2017}}
'''Alyssa Monks''' (born 1977) is an American painter currently based in Brooklyn. She specializes in large oil paintings and is recognized both in the United States and Europe for her work featuring figures obscured by water, steam, and vinyl.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/410329/alyssa-monks/|title=The Rustic Renewal of a Brooklyn Artist|last=Ajaka|first=Nadine|website=The Atlantic|access-date=2017-07-08}} Her notable series of work centering around figures in bathrooms, tubs, and showers garnered attention from the worldwide art community and the press.{{Cite web |date=2017-02-27 |title=OBSCURING ATMOSPHERES AND PUSHING THE COMPLEXITIES OF PAINTING LANGUAGE TO FIND THE LINE BETWEEN ABSTRACTION AND ILLUSION MEET ALYSSA MONKS |url=https://www.artjobs.com/arts/interview/alyssa-monks/obscuring-atmospheres-and-pushing-complexities-painting-language-find |access-date=2022-08-25 |website=Art Jobs |language=en}}
==Personal life==
A native of [[Ridgewood, New Jersey]],{{Cite web|url=https://www.artistsnetwork.com/artist-life/may-i-introduce-alyssa-monks/|title=May I Introduce Alyssa Monks?|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}} Monks was born in 1977 as the youngest of eight children (six older brothers and one sister). Her mother, being a potter and artist herself, was supportive of Monks' interest in art and found ways to help her cultivate her love for the arts. By eight years old, Monks was taking general art and painting classes. She is based in [[Williamsburg, Brooklyn]].
==Education==
After graduating from [[Immaculate Heart Academy]] in 1995,[https://www.immaculateheartnj.com/apps/news/article/676808 "Alyssa Monks'95 Named in Top 30 Most Influential Women Artists"], [[Immaculate Heart Academy]]. Accessed June 21, 2020. " Listed at #16, Alyssa Monks'95 is named one of the 30 Most Influential Women Artists Alive Today." Monks went on to attend [[The New School]] in New York and [[Montclair State University]] before earning her B.A. at [[Boston College]] in 1999. Monks went on to study painting at [[Lorenzo de’ Medici]] in [[Florence, Italy]] and then returned to the United States to earn her M.F.A. from the [[New York Academy of Art]], in their Graduate School of Figurative Art in 2001. In 2006, Monks completed an artist in residency at [[Fullerton College]] in [[California]].
==Work==
In Monks’ early works the environment comes forward, with some of her paintings featuring interiors without figures, or interiors in which the figure is only a small element. Her eye for these spaces explores the figure as both a form and a place.{{Cite web |title=Alyssa Monks – Lines and Colors |url=http://linesandcolors.com/2007/03/02/alyssa-monks/ |access-date=2022-08-26 |language=en-US}} As her work evolved, her figures become more complete than their portrait counterparts, as Monks felt that she needed to be “as realistic as possible; It had to be specific and believable” as “this was the place where (she) was isolated and in total control.”{{cite web |url=https://www.ted.com/talks/alyssa_monks_how_loss_helped_one_artist_find_beauty_in_imperfection |title=Alyssa Monks: How loss helped one artist find beauty in imperfection |website=TED.com |date= |accessdate=May 17, 2017 }}
Monks then preferred to alter the audience’s sense of space and immersion in her artworks.{{citation needed|date=April 2017}} While her representation of the figure is often almost perfectly photographic in its depiction, she blurs and fuses layers of space to create immersive abstraction that feels uniquely intimate and provocative; she often includes the use of glass, clear vinyl, water, steam, and shallow spaces to distinguish a nearly invisible line between the foreground and backgrounds of her pieces. Monks’ most famous pieces come from her decade-long water series, where these elements are the most prevalent and recognizable. Monk's compositions also exhibit a quality of tension because of the way she of her use of the [[impasto]] technique.{{Cite web |url=http://alyssamonks.com/page/profile/4677/Bio |title=Alyssa Monks official website |last=Baldwin |first=David |date=November 19, 2018 |website=Alyssa Monks }}
However, this specificity and [[photorealism|photorealistic]] detail would not last. On October 8, 2011, Monks’ mother was diagnosed with [[lung cancer]] that had [[metastasis|spread throughout the rest of her body]], succumbing to it a year and three weeks after her diagnosis on October 26, 2012. When she returned to painting, ''Smear'' was one of her first pieces. “It’s like a release of everything that was unravelling in me,” she stated. “That safe, very, very carefully rendered safe place that I created in all of my other paintings was a myth; it didn’t work.” This tragic loss caused Monks to re-evaluate her process entirely, moving from the enclosed space of the bathroom to outside in the woods and integrating a chaotic, abstraction of nature into her work instead of the pristine and controlled layering of space. She even left paintings outside, exposed to the woods over night, just to see what kind of affect it would have — anything to inspire her to paint again and rekindle her love for art.
In March 2018 a ''[[The New York Times|New York Times]]'' article was written about Monks' artistic contributions to FX's hit TV show ''[[The Americans]]''. For its final season, Monks created the paintings and drawings used on set for the character Erica, an artist wife of a [[nuclear weapon|nuclear]] [[arms industry|arms dealer]] who is bedridden with cancer. Monks' work can be seen in the background of a critical scene for the final season of the show, in which the main character Elizabeth Jennings enters Erica's bedroom, disguised as an aid. Elizabeth is known for her inability to show emotion — the use of Monk's paintings was to disrupt this trait and serve as a turning point for the character. The show runners sought paintings for Elizabeth to see which, "unconsciously, like [[sleeper agent]]s, suggesting the kinds of intense emotions that she will never let herself feel. They had to be realistic, but not too realistic, passionate, but not over the top. They had to look as though they could have been painted in the 1980s".{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/23/arts/television/the-americans-fx-final-season.html |title=''The Americans'' Goes Dark(er), With Help From a Painter |last=Soloski |first=Alexis |date=March 23, 2018 |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=March 15, 2019 }}
==Exhibitions==
{{Update|section |date=August 2019 }}
Monks has shown her work across the globe, including one show, called ''Resolution'', which ran in spring 2016 at the Forum Gallery in New York City. Other notable shows and collections that include her work are the Kunst Museum in [[Ahlen]], Germany, the [[National Academy of Design|National Academy Museum of Fine Arts]]’ show ''Reconfiguring the Body in American Art, 1820–2009'', as well as the private collections of [[Eric Fischl]], Howard Tullman, Gerrity Lansing, [[Danielle Steel]], [[Alec Baldwin]], and [[Luciano Benetton]].{{cite web|url=http://www.alyssamonks.com/ |title=Paintings |publisher=Alyssa Monks |date= |accessdate=March 17, 2017 }}
== Awards ==
* Ranked 16 out of 30 in a list of the most influential women artist alive today by the graphic design degree hub.{{Cite web|url=https://www.graphicdesigndegreehub.com/30-most-influential-women-artists-alive-today/|title=30 Most Influential Women Artist Alive Today|last=|first=|date=|website=www.graphicdesigndegreehub.com|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}
* Awarded the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant for painting in 2003, and 2006.
*Won a travel grant from the Forbes Foundation to the Chateaux Balleroy in Normandy, France in 2001.
== Scholarships ==
* Academic Scholarship Award for the [[New York Academy of Art]] awarded in 1999 (M.F.A.)
* Awarded the Artplosion grant and the Stylus grant for [[Boston College]] in 1999 (B.A.){{Cite web|url=http://www.sarahbaingallery.com/monks_biography.html|title=Alyssa Monks Biography|last=|first=|date=|website=www.albemarlegallery.com|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2018-12-04}}
==Digital galleries==
*Artsy Gallery{{cite web|url=https://www.artsy.net/artist/alyssa-monks|title=Alyssa Monks : American, b. 1977|website=Artsy.net|accessdate=2017-05-17}}
*Personal Web Gallery
==Other sources==
* {{cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/410329/alyssa-monks/#disqus_thread |title=The Rustic Renewal of Brooklyn Artist Alyssa Monks |publisher=The Atlantic |date=2015-10-20 |accessdate=2017-05-17}}
* {{cite web|url=http://www.alyssamonks.com/ |title=Paintings |publisher=Alyssa Monks |date= |accessdate=2017-05-17}}
* {{cite web|url=http://www.hoctok.com/alyssa-monks.html |title=Alyssa Monks |website=HocTok.com |date= |accessdate=2017-05-17}}
* {{cite web|author= |url=http://www.graphicdesigndegreehub.com/30-most-influential-women-artists-alive-today/ |title=30 Most Influential Women Artists Alive Today |website=Graphicdesigndegreehub.com |date= |accessdate=2017-05-17}}
* {{cite web|url=http://artophilia.com/front-page/interview-alyssa-monks/ |title=Interview with Alyssa Monks |website=Artophilia.com |date= |accessdate=2017-05-17}}
* {{cite web|author= |url=http://dirtylaundrymag.com/articles/alyssa-monks/ |title=Connection | Dirty Laundry |website=Dirtylaundrymag.com |date=2015-03-05 |accessdate=2017-05-17}}
* {{cite web|url=https://www.ted.com/talks/alyssa_monks_how_loss_helped_one_artist_find_beauty_in_imperfection |title=Alyssa Monks: How loss helped one artist find beauty in imperfection | TED Talk |website=TED.com |date= |accessdate=2017-05-17}}
* {{cite web|url=http://www.artjobs.com/arts/interview/alyssa-monks/obscuring-atmospheres-and-pushing-complexities-painting-language-find# |title=Obscuring Atmospheres And Pushing The Complexities Of Painting Language To Find The Line Between Abstraction And Illusion Meet Alyssa Monks |publisher=Art Jobs |date= |accessdate=2017-05-17}}
==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Monks, Alyssa}}
[[Category:1977 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Boston College alumni]]
[[Category:Immaculate Heart Academy alumni]]
[[Category:New York Academy of Art alumni]]
[[Category:21st-century American painters]]
[[Category:People from Williamsburg, Brooklyn]]
{{Short description|American painter}}
{{More footnotes|date=May 2017}}
'''Alyssa Monks''' (born 1977) is an American painter currently based in Brooklyn. She specializes in large oil paintings and is recognized both in the United States and Europe for her work featuring figures obscured by water, steam, and vinyl.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/410329/alyssa-monks/|title=The Rustic Renewal of a Brooklyn Artist|last=Ajaka|first=Nadine|website=The Atlantic|access-date=2017-07-08}} Her notable series of work centering around figures in bathrooms, tubs, and showers garnered attention from the worldwide art community and the press.{{Cite web |date=2017-02-27 |title=OBSCURING ATMOSPHERES AND PUSHING THE COMPLEXITIES OF PAINTING LANGUAGE TO FIND THE LINE BETWEEN ABSTRACTION AND ILLUSION MEET ALYSSA MONKS |url=https://www.artjobs.com/arts/interview/alyssa-monks/obscuring-atmospheres-and-pushing-complexities-painting-language-find |access-date=2022-08-25 |website=Art Jobs |language=en}}
==Personal life==
A native of [[Ridgewood, New Jersey]],{{Cite web|url=https://www.artistsnetwork.com/artist-life/may-i-introduce-alyssa-monks/|title=May I Introduce Alyssa Monks?|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}} Monks was born in 1977 as the youngest of eight children (six older brothers and one sister). Her mother, being a potter and artist herself, was supportive of Monks' interest in art and found ways to help her cultivate her love for the arts. By eight years old, Monks was taking general art and painting classes. She is based in [[Williamsburg, Brooklyn]].
==Education==
After graduating from [[Immaculate Heart Academy]] in 1995,[https://www.immaculateheartnj.com/apps/news/article/676808 "Alyssa Monks'95 Named in Top 30 Most Influential Women Artists"], [[Immaculate Heart Academy]]. Accessed June 21, 2020. " Listed at #16, Alyssa Monks'95 is named one of the 30 Most Influential Women Artists Alive Today." Monks went on to attend [[The New School]] in New York and [[Montclair State University]] before earning her B.A. at [[Boston College]] in 1999. Monks went on to study painting at [[Lorenzo de’ Medici]] in [[Florence, Italy]] and then returned to the United States to earn her M.F.A. from the [[New York Academy of Art]], in their Graduate School of Figurative Art in 2001. In 2006, Monks completed an artist in residency at [[Fullerton College]] in [[California]].
==Work==
In Monks’ early works the environment comes forward, with some of her paintings featuring interiors without figures, or interiors in which the figure is only a small element. Her eye for these spaces explores the figure as both a form and a place.{{Cite web |title=Alyssa Monks – Lines and Colors |url=http://linesandcolors.com/2007/03/02/alyssa-monks/ |access-date=2022-08-26 |language=en-US}} As her work evolved, her figures become more complete than their portrait counterparts, as Monks felt that she needed to be “as realistic as possible; It had to be specific and believable” as “this was the place where (she) was isolated and in total control.”{{cite web |url=https://www.ted.com/talks/alyssa_monks_how_loss_helped_one_artist_find_beauty_in_imperfection |title=Alyssa Monks: How loss helped one artist find beauty in imperfection |website=TED.com |date= |accessdate=May 17, 2017 }}
Monks then preferred to alter the audience’s sense of space and immersion in her artworks.{{citation needed|date=April 2017}} While her representation of the figure is often almost perfectly photographic in its depiction, she blurs and fuses layers of space to create immersive abstraction that feels uniquely intimate and provocative; she often includes the use of glass, clear vinyl, water, steam, and shallow spaces to distinguish a nearly invisible line between the foreground and backgrounds of her pieces. Monks’ most famous pieces come from her decade-long water series, where these elements are the most prevalent and recognizable. Monk's compositions also exhibit a quality of tension because of the way she of her use of the [[impasto]] technique.{{Cite web |url=http://alyssamonks.com/page/profile/4677/Bio |title=Alyssa Monks official website |last=Baldwin |first=David |date=November 19, 2018 |website=Alyssa Monks }}
However, this specificity and [[photorealism|photorealistic]] detail would not last. On October 8, 2011, Monks’ mother was diagnosed with [[lung cancer]] that had [[metastasis|spread throughout the rest of her body]], succumbing to it a year and three weeks after her diagnosis on October 26, 2012. When she returned to painting, ''Smear'' was one of her first pieces. “It’s like a release of everything that was unravelling in me,” she stated. “That safe, very, very carefully rendered safe place that I created in all of my other paintings was a myth; it didn’t work.” This tragic loss caused Monks to re-evaluate her process entirely, moving from the enclosed space of the bathroom to outside in the woods and integrating a chaotic, abstraction of nature into her work instead of the pristine and controlled layering of space. She even left paintings outside, exposed to the woods over night, just to see what kind of affect it would have — anything to inspire her to paint again and rekindle her love for art.
In March 2018 a ''[[The New York Times|New York Times]]'' article was written about Monks' artistic contributions to FX's hit TV show ''[[The Americans]]''. For its final season, Monks created the paintings and drawings used on set for the character Erica, an artist wife of a [[nuclear weapon|nuclear]] [[arms industry|arms dealer]] who is bedridden with cancer. Monks' work can be seen in the background of a critical scene for the final season of the show, in which the main character Elizabeth Jennings enters Erica's bedroom, disguised as an aid. Elizabeth is known for her inability to show emotion — the use of Monk's paintings was to disrupt this trait and serve as a turning point for the character. The show runners sought paintings for Elizabeth to see which, "unconsciously, like [[sleeper agent]]s, suggesting the kinds of intense emotions that she will never let herself feel. They had to be realistic, but not too realistic, passionate, but not over the top. They had to look as though they could have been painted in the 1980s".{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/23/arts/television/the-americans-fx-final-season.html |title=''The Americans'' Goes Dark(er), With Help From a Painter |last=Soloski |first=Alexis |date=March 23, 2018 |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=March 15, 2019 }}
==Exhibitions==
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Monks has shown her work across the globe, including one show, called ''Resolution'', which ran in spring 2016 at the Forum Gallery in New York City. Other notable shows and collections that include her work are the Kunst Museum in [[Ahlen]], Germany, the [[National Academy of Design|National Academy Museum of Fine Arts]]’ show ''Reconfiguring the Body in American Art, 1820–2009'', as well as the private collections of [[Eric Fischl]], Howard Tullman, Gerrity Lansing, [[Danielle Steel]], [[Alec Baldwin]], and [[Luciano Benetton]].{{cite web|url=http://www.alyssamonks.com/ |title=Paintings |publisher=Alyssa Monks |date= |accessdate=March 17, 2017 }}
== Awards ==
* Ranked 16 out of 30 in a list of the most influential women artist alive today by the graphic design degree hub.{{Cite web|url=https://www.graphicdesigndegreehub.com/30-most-influential-women-artists-alive-today/|title=30 Most Influential Women Artist Alive Today|last=|first=|date=|website=www.graphicdesigndegreehub.com|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}
* Awarded the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant for painting in 2003, and 2006.
*Won a travel grant from the Forbes Foundation to the Chateaux Balleroy in Normandy, France in 2001.
== Scholarships ==
* Academic Scholarship Award for the [[New York Academy of Art]] awarded in 1999 (M.F.A.)
* Awarded the Artplosion grant and the Stylus grant for [[Boston College]] in 1999 (B.A.){{Cite web|url=http://www.sarahbaingallery.com/monks_biography.html|title=Alyssa Monks Biography|last=|first=|date=|website=www.albemarlegallery.com|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2018-12-04}}
==Digital galleries==
*Artsy Gallery{{cite web|url=https://www.artsy.net/artist/alyssa-monks|title=Alyssa Monks : American, b. 1977|website=Artsy.net|accessdate=2017-05-17}}
*Personal Web Gallery
==Other sources==
* {{cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/410329/alyssa-monks/#disqus_thread |title=The Rustic Renewal of Brooklyn Artist Alyssa Monks |publisher=The Atlantic |date=2015-10-20 |accessdate=2017-05-17}}
* {{cite web|url=http://www.alyssamonks.com/ |title=Paintings |publisher=Alyssa Monks |date= |accessdate=2017-05-17}}
* {{cite web|url=http://www.hoctok.com/alyssa-monks.html |title=Alyssa Monks |website=HocTok.com |date= |accessdate=2017-05-17}}
* {{cite web|author= |url=http://www.graphicdesigndegreehub.com/30-most-influential-women-artists-alive-today/ |title=30 Most Influential Women Artists Alive Today |website=Graphicdesigndegreehub.com |date= |accessdate=2017-05-17}}
* {{cite web|url=http://artophilia.com/front-page/interview-alyssa-monks/ |title=Interview with Alyssa Monks |website=Artophilia.com |date= |accessdate=2017-05-17}}
* {{cite web|author= |url=http://dirtylaundrymag.com/articles/alyssa-monks/ |title=Connection | Dirty Laundry |website=Dirtylaundrymag.com |date=2015-03-05 |accessdate=2017-05-17}}
* {{cite web|url=https://www.ted.com/talks/alyssa_monks_how_loss_helped_one_artist_find_beauty_in_imperfection |title=Alyssa Monks: How loss helped one artist find beauty in imperfection | TED Talk |website=TED.com |date= |accessdate=2017-05-17}}
* {{cite web|url=http://www.artjobs.com/arts/interview/alyssa-monks/obscuring-atmospheres-and-pushing-complexities-painting-language-find# |title=Obscuring Atmospheres And Pushing The Complexities Of Painting Language To Find The Line Between Abstraction And Illusion Meet Alyssa Monks |publisher=Art Jobs |date= |accessdate=2017-05-17}}
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