Bio

Alyssa Tauber has lived in the Des Moines area for most of her life. She earned a B.F.A. with Honors in Art and a B.A. in English from The University of Iowa, as well as an M.F.A. from Illinois State University. She has shown her work in the U.S. and internationally, with notable shows being in Olson-Larsen Galleries’ Seven Printmakers show (2017), the Monoprint Guild of New England Third National Juried Monotype and Monoprint Exhibition (2013), and the 2015 Awagami International Miniature Print Exhibition in Tokushima, Japan, in which Alyssa’s work received an Honorable Mention.

Alyssa currently teaches drawing, printmaking, and other classes at the Des Moines Art Center. She is also on the advisory committee of the Des Moines Art Center Print Club, and a member of the Monotype Guild of New England.

Artist Statement

My work explores my relationship with my environment -- both physical and psychological. Each influences the other. Physical spaces affect our emotional states and, conversely, our emotional states affect our physical environment. I use these relationships to examine my connection with my environment, and as projections of my mental state, but ultimately to search for myself -- and I hope the viewer will do the same. Personal experience, placed lived in, places passed through, literature (such as William Faulkner and Ray Bradbury), comparative mythology, psychology, and other artists such as Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth, and Giorgio de Chirico, have all been important to my work.

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