
Alyssa Fanning's work focuses on the strength and fragility of the natural world. With a background in painting and printmaking, Fanning is best known for her drawings, which are highly detailed and mostly small in scale. The intimate works invite close viewing that reveals miniature worlds, illuminating the connection between the microscopic and macroscopic. Delicately rendered through a labor-intensive process, the compositions are meditations on time and inner projections of both the disasters and triumphs of imagined land and mind scapes – personal, cultural and ecological in scope.
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Exhibitions
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
ALYSSA FANNING: Drawings
Carlton Hobbs, New York, New YorkALYSSA FANNING: A Thousand Moons and Suns
Platform Project Space, Brooklyn, New YorkGROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
The Drawing Exchange: Round Six
Curated by Jay Gaskill, @thedrawingexchangeFrom Light to Dark
Jason McCoy Gallery via Artsy, New York, New YorkHawks in the Snow
Hawk Solidarity, @HawkSolidarity2020
Respawn the Seeds Worthy of a Life Inside the Earth
Curated by Mitch Patrick, @FlatlandsHot Paper in Support of the ACLU
GIFC.comDrawing Challenge IV: Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Jason McCoy Gallery, New York, New York2019
Blue in Green
Platform Project Space, Brooklyn, New York2018
Intimate Immensity and Other Daydreams
AC Institute, New York, New YorkEcophilia
The Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, MassachusettsAnonymous Drawings
Galerie Im Kornerpark, Berlin, GermanyThe Nature Lab: An Homage to the RISD Nature Lab and its Founder Edna Lawrence
LABspace, Hillsdale, New YorkTRUE NORTH
LABspace, Hillsdale, New YorkSomewhere Over the Interconnected Rainbow & Prospero’s Grand St Masque
Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, New JerseyLBIF Montclair University Faculty Exhibition
Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences, Loveladies, New Jersey2017
TSA New York 2017 Flatfile Program
Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, New YorkThe Expanding Matrix
SUNY College, Old Westbury, New YorkCasheesh 2017
Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MassachusettsHandbills of Subversion
MF Gallery, Brooklyn, New York2016
STARK NAKED: Uncovery Bodies, Objects, and the Futility of Desire
Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MassachusettsJuicy: Contemporary Artists Explore Erotica
Shag Presents, Brooklyn, New YorkCasheesh Twenty Sixteen
Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MassachusettsWhat’s In A Landscape, Pratt Institute of Fine Arts Alumni Exhibition
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New YorkSQUARED
Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MassachusettsThe New Jersey Fine Arts Annual 2016
The Noyes Museum of Art, Atlantic City, New JerseyFall Faculty Exhibition
Montclair State University, Montclair, New JerseyUnframed
Hudson County Community College, Jersey City, New Jersey2015
Earth Dreams
Eagle Studio, Brooklyn, New YorkPrime Matter
Tuckningmuseet (The Museum of Drawings), Laholm, SwedenAnonymous Drawings
Galerie Norde, Berlin, Germany; artQ13, Rome, Italy (traveling)Casheesh Fifteen
Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MassachusettsMontclair State University Art & Design Faculty Exhibition
George Segal Gallery, Montclair, New JerseyExquisite
LABspace, Hillsdale, New YorkGarage Sale
Buddy Warren Gallery, New York, New YorkDay Drinking
The Egg, NeoChicago, Chicago, IllinoisLucky 7
Gallery Aferro, Newark, New JerseyYEAH, That’s What She SAID
BabyCastles, New York, New YorkAbove and Below I-20
The Howard Payne University, Brownwood, TexasPaperazzi
Janet Kurnatowski, Brooklyn, New York2014
Prime Matter
Senaspace, New York, New York“Ready or Not” 2014 New Jersey Arts Annual
Newark Museum, Newark, New JerseyShifting Ecologie
The Painting Center, New York, New YorkNew Digs
Index Art Center, Newark, New JerseyFeral Objects
CREON, New York, New YorkYEAH, That’s What She SAID
Specials on C, New York, New York2013
Heat Chaos Resistance – It’s Time To Live In The Scattered Sun
Radiator Gallery, Long Island City, New YorkProject Room
Sometimes (works of art), New York, New YorkLittle Things
View Arts, Old Forge, New York2012
“Horse Designed by Committee” MFA Thesis Exhibition
White Box, New York, New York2011
SEED BOMB
Index Art Center, Newark, New JerseyYoung Blood
Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, New YorkCAA New York Area MFA Exhibition
Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, New York, New YorkFlowers
Max Fish, New York, New York2010
Dialectical Landscapes
Seton Hall University School of Law, Newark, New Jersey (in conjunction with City Without Walls, Newark, New Jersey)Why Did THIS Fox Eat THAT Rabbit?
131 West 21 Street, New York, New YorkPaper Moon
Gallery Aferro, Newark, New JerseyHOME
Mikhail Zakin Gallery, Demarest, New Jersey2009
Slow News International
ARTS at Marks Garage, Honolulu, HawaiiUnnatural Acts and Other Illicit Thoughts About Nature
Broadway Gallery, New York, New York5 Dollar Store
Mortville, Chicago, IllinoisMetropolitan Memories
The Brennan Gallery, Jersey City, New Jersey“Local Life” NJ Arts Annual
Morris Museum, Morristown, New JerseyWoman to Woman
The Brennan Gallery, Jersey City, New JerseyMetro 26
City Without Walls, Newark, New Jersey2008
‘Alyssa E. Fanning: Discovering the Water Works’
Water Works Conservancy Gallery, Oradell, New JerseyEvolution: Structure and Chance
Bridge Miami, Miami, Florida“Human History” Hudson County Arts Annual
The Brennan Gallery, Jersey City, New JerseyEntropic Renovators
Art Now Fair, New York, New YorkCosmological Map
ABC No Rio, New York, New York2007
Multiples
Silent Space Gallery, Kingston, New YorkMetro 25 n
City Without Walls, Newark, New JerseyFirst National BFA Exhibition
University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida -
Education
2012
Montclair State University
Master of Fine Arts, Montclair, New Jersey2007
Pratt Institute
Bachelor of Fine Arts (with highest honors), Brooklyn, New York -
Awards
2012
Joan Mitchell Foundation Master in Fine Arts Grant Nominee
Excellence in Painting, Montclair State University, College of Arts and Design2011
Master in Fine Arts Fellowship Nominee, Dedalus Foundation2007
Outstanding Academic Achievement, Pratt Circle Award, Pratt Institute