Alyssa Monks: How loss helped one artist find beauty in imperfection
الیسا مانکس: چطور یک فقدان به یک هنرمند کمک کرد تا در نواقص زیبایی پیدا کند
Alyssa Monks transfers the intimacy and vulnerability of human experience onto a painted surface. Full bio
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about something personal
درباره مساله ای شخصی صحبت کنم
may be helpful to somebody.
من برای کسی مفید باشد.
I grew up the youngest of eight.
من کوچکترین فرزند بین ۸ هشت خواهر و برادرانم هستم.
ما را به نقاط مختلف شهر میبرد
بعد از مدرسه داشته باشیم
from when I was eight to 16,
به همه کلاسهای هنر موجود میبرد،
که میخواستم انجام دهم.
in New York City.
I learned a few survival skills.
هشت فرزند، من چندین توانایی بقاء را یاد گرفتم
see you do anything stupid.
شما کار احمقانه ای انجام میدهید.
and stay in line.
من قوانین را درست می کردم.
to be an artist.
دوست داشتم یک هنرمند باشم.
to support my painting.
تا بتوانم از نقاشی خودم حمایت کنم.
توانایی هایم را عالی کنم.
and I got an MFA,
و فوق لیسانس هنر (MFA) گرفتم،
my brother asked me,
برادرم از من سوال کرد،
mean next to the paintings?"
به چه معنی هستند؟"
that the paintings were sold
که نقاشیها فروخته شده بودند
had four electrical outlets,
and a toaster at the same time,
تستر همزمان استفاده کنم،
اجارهام را پرداخت کنم.
from back around that time.
as realistic as possible.
واقعیتگرایی را داشته باشد.
isolated and in total control.
و کنترل کامل در اختیار داشتم.
of painting people in water.
مردم درون آب مشغول هستم.
the perfect enclosed environment.
بهترین محیط محصور بودند.
that kept me busy for a decade.
که برای یک دهه من را مشغول کرد.
with the bathwater to make it cloudy
مخلوط کردم تا آن را ابری کنم
I couldn't wait to paint it.
تحمل کنم تا آن را نقاشی کنم.
kind of impulsive curiosity,
ضربه ای هدایت میشدم،
in my head and hair
به سر و موی خودم مالیدم
افتتاحیه ها و رویدادها.
with more than four outlets.
که بیشتر از چهار پریز داشت.
and inspiring each other.
و به یکدیگر الهام میدادیم.
who made this painting
که این نقاشی را
در اقیانوس کشیده است،
معنی است و او گفت،
into adulthood, you're no longer a child,
گذاشتهاید و دیگر یک کودک نیستید،
by the responsibilities of life."
زندگی خم نشدهاید."
and it was in her brain.
و حتی در مغر او بود.
and I looked at her,
how to help her.
having him in charge,
مزیت بزرگ برای ما بود،
taking care of her.
با مراقبت از مادرم انجام داد.
everything I could to help,
میتوانستم برای کمک به او انجام دهم،
می خواهی من انجام دهم؟"
I'm going to need you later."
بعدا به تو نیاز خواهم داشت."
در حال افتادن بود،
and the internet didn't know:
این دوران را سپری کند.
تا از او سوال کنم.
او میخواهد آن دوران را سپری کند را تغییر دهم
and whatever situation came up,
و هر شرایطی که به وجود امد،
then now I was surrendering,
پس الان داشتم تسلیم میشدم،
the uncontrollable
چیزی که قابل کنترل نبود
into bed with her and sleep with her.
his car coming up the driveway.
خودرو او را در مقابل خانه میشنیدیم.
نشیند و دستان او را میگرفتم
for breakfast.
تمام انجام میدادم،
and bring their kids,
استفاده از صندلی چرخدار شدیم،
we could find to drink her coffee.
to help me with the showers.
تا برای حمام بردن به من کمک کند.
after her diagnosis.
از تشخیص بیماری او بود.
supportive and attentive way.
all together in this unknown,
of my time alone in a studio working,
را در استودیو تنها کار میکنم
for me to go back to my studio.
که به استودیو برگردم.
and I drove back to Brooklyn,
so that's what I did.
انجام دهم، پس آن را انجام دادم.
that was unraveling in me.
rendered safe place
خیلی خیلی زیاد امن شده بود
I didn't want to paint anymore.
دیگر نمیخواستم نقاشی کنم.
and I wasn't a landscape painter,
من یک نقاش منظره نبودم،
much of any kind of painter at all,
It didn't matter. It didn't matter.
back to my studio,
ریختم و روی آنها نقاشی کردم.
فضای واقعی تلاش نمیکردم.
that were fascinating me,
که من را شگفت زده میکردند،
the paint like I used to.
and suggesting,
chaotic, turbulent surface
as I was when I was a student.
درست مثل زمانی که دانش آموز بودم.
مردم را در نقاشیها قرار دهم،
to put figures in these paintings, people,
و هم این فضا را داشته باشم.
both people and this atmosphere.
انجام این کار به ذهنم رسید،
آن کار میکنم را به شما نشان دهم.
what I've been working on.
and it's like a preview, I guess,
و فکر کنم مثل یک پیش نمایش است،
what matters most to me,
پراهمیت ترین چیز برای من،
where there's no resisting or controlling.
هیچ مقاومت و کنترلی اتفاق بیفتد.
big losses in our lives,
در زندگی خواهیم داشت،
are out of our control.
to find something beautiful
استفاده کنیم تا چیزی زیبا
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Alyssa Monks - PainterAlyssa Monks transfers the intimacy and vulnerability of human experience onto a painted surface.
Why you should listen
Alyssa Monks blurs the line between abstraction and realism through layering different spaces and moments in her paintings. Using semi-transparent filters of glass, vinyl, steam and water to flip background and foreground in her 10-year water series, she seduced the viewer into shallow spaces. Today, she is imposing a transparent landscape of infinite space over her emotionally evocative subjects.
The tension in her mostly large-scale paintings is sustained not only by the composition but also by the surface treatment itself. Each brushstroke is thickly applied oil paint, like a fossil recording every gesture and decision, expressing the energetic and empathic experience of the handmade object.
Monks's work is represented by Forum Gallery in New York City. She lives and paints in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Her latest solo exhibition "Resolution" took place March and April of 2016 at Forum Gallery. Monks's paintings have been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions including "Intimacy" at the Kunst Museum in Ahlen, Germany and "Reconfiguring the Body in American Art, 1820–2009" at the National Academy Museum of Fine Arts, New York. Her work is represented in public and private collections, including the Savannah College of Arts, the Somerset Art Association, Fullerton College, the Seavest Collection and the collections of Eric Fischl, Howard Tullman, Gerrity Lansing, Danielle Steele, Alec Baldwin and Luciano Benetton.
Born 1977 in New Jersey, Monks began oil painting as a child. She studied at The New School in New York and Montclair State University and earned her B.A. from Boston College in 1999. During this time she studied painting at Lorenzo de’ Medici in Florence. She went on to earn her M.F.A from the New York Academy of Art, Graduate School of Figurative Art in 2001. She completed an artist in residency at Fullerton College in 2006 and has lectured and taught at universities and institutions nationwide. She continues to offer workshops and lectures regularly.
Monks has been awarded the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant for Painting three times and serves as a member of the New York Academy of Art's Board of Trustees.
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