May 2, 2010

Painter Alyssa Monks

If you like the charade: is this real or not? is this a painting or is this a photo? you will love the New Yorker Alyssa Monks. She masters paintings with wet and naked people taking baths, showers or just hanging out (still wet and naked). As eper her own site: "Monks’s work explores narrative figuration. Currently she is playing with the tension between abstraction and realism in the same work, using different filters to visually distort and disintegrate the body." Alyssa has been awarded a Grant for Painting from the Elizabeth Greensheilds Foundation three times.



I love how she plays with an artful realism with the water and its forms. Wet flesh texture, glass, vapor, transparency and fog. 
I don't know, but I feel like taking a hot shower!

1 comment:

  1. I'm speechless to this one. Perfect wet impression and faces expressions.

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