Critical Artist Expression- Alyssa Monks

Alyssa Monks' Persistence

Alyssa Monks, named the 16th most influential women artist alive today, was born in New Jersey and studied at Montclair State University. She currently resides in New York and is a member of the New York Academy of Art Board of Trustees. Monks' paintings are influential in the sense that they distort the naked female body as a way to reject the objectification of women. Her oil paintings may seem as photographs, but she combines the elements of both: abstract art and realism, in order to make the viewer relate to the painting on a personal level. Painting her friends and other people, she distorts their bodies using glass, water, steam, and vinyl filters.


-Joe Mikhail