Monica Nask
"Born in Bryn Mawr, I was raised in West Chester, Pennsylvania. I grew up in a very rural neighborhood that I loved. Most Saturdays I spent taking art and craft classes at the local art center and my first experience with plein air painting was with my Uncle Tom who taught me how to paint fluffy clouds and happy trees in our back yard. In high school I continued my love for making things, this time going into the city of Philadelphia to the College of Textile and Science and some drawing classes at Tyler School of Art. All this was a continuation of my love for making things, and at the time still considered a hobby for me. I was very interested in math and problem solving, and wanted to go into corporate law. Well that changed. I went to Rhode Island School of Design and spent the next four years with a wonderful group of peers, who pushed and challenged me. I was a critical thinker now. After graduation I moved to Philadelphia and then to New York City. While working in the apparel industry my passion for drawing never left me and again found myself taking more art classes on Saturdays and expanding into painting. I was very fortunate to have studied with some great artists at the School of Visual Arts and the New York Academy of Figurative Art. After more than twenty years in the city I moved to the coast of New Jersey.
With palette knives, I start to lay paint thick across the canvas. Layering and scraping, creating what I have seen with what I have felt. I like to push the boundaries between realism and abstraction, using broad fields of color to create depth. I continue to add elements that will tell a narrative. This could be people, trees, the sun, the sea, it could be certain colors to convey a mood. My work is a visual diary of life. You can find my paintings at galleries throughout New Jersey and Jupiter, Florida."
Select Works:
Miles Art Gallery, Jupiter, FL
The Frederick Galleries, Spring Lake, NJ
Gallery Jupiter, Little Silver, NJ
Nicol NJ, Fort Monmouth Oceanport, NJ
90 Degrees Gallery, Long Branch, NJ
EXHIBITS 2026:
"Expressions of Love, Monica Nask",SOLO Miles Art Gallery, Jupiter, FL
"Human Thread: The Art of Compassion & Courage" by Monmouth Arts, Caroline Huber Wellness Center, Lincroft, NJ
"Meant to Be", Middletown Arts Center, Middletown, NJ
"Rebellion & Renewal", Long Branch Arts & Cultural Center, Long Branch, NJ
"The Art of Summer", Long Branch Arts & Cultural Center, Long Branch, NJ
EXHIBITIONS SOLO:
Miles Art Gallery, Jupiter, FL 2026
The City of Palm Beach Gardens City Hall, Palm Beach Gardens, FL 2025
Oyster Point Hotel, Artist In Residence, Red Bank, NJ, 2024
Beacon Art Shortwave Gallery, Stone Harbor, NJ 2023
Gallery 211, Red Bank, NJ, 2021, 2023
SOMA Gallery, Cape May, NJ, 2021, 2022
New Era Tech, "Town and Country", West Chester, PA 2015
EXHIBITIONS:
Miles Art Gallery, Jupiter, FL 2025
Khawam Gallery, East Hanover, NJ 2025
"Figments and Fragments of Your Imagination" Belmar Arts Center, Belmar, NJ 2025
”The Burlap Project", Long Branch Arts & Cultural Center, Long Branch, NJ 2025
"Abstract ArtNow“ Art Gotham, Saint Marks Place, NYC, NY 2025
”Beyond The Surface, A Deeper Look at Women's Influence", Long Branch Arts & Cultural Center, Long Branch, NJ 2025
"The Red Show", Saint Marks Arts, New York, NY 2024
5 Years 10 Artists in Residency, The Oyster Point Hotel, Red Bank, NJ 2024
"LINKED IN NYC - Women Of The World" New York, NY 2024
"Metallic Mirage", Define Art Gallery, Sarasota, FL 2024
"Poetic Boundaries", AHHarts, Atlantic Highlands, NJ 2024
Penn Medicine Radnor, Radnor, PA, 2019-20, 2022-23
Englewood Hospital, Englewood, NJ 2022-2023
Mills Pond House Gallery, St. James, NY, 2003, 2023
”Poetic Boundaries”, Atlantic Highlands, NJ 2023
"The Flower Show", Gallery Jupiter, Little Silver, NJ 2023
Oyster Point Hotel Gallery, Red Bank, NJ 2021
Art Club Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY 2022
The Gallery, "Of The Earth", Lincroft, N J 2020
1110 Gallery ,Brooklyn, NY, 2005
NIKE -Prop Art New York, NY 2003
New Century Artists Gallery," Sexuality Object", New York, NY
COLLECTIONS:
Penn Medicine Radnor, Radnor, PA
AtlantiCare Health Corporation, EHT, NJ
The Oyster Point Hotel, Red Bank, NJ
Copelouzos Family Art Museum, Athens, Greece
Carlos Michans, Netherlands, France
Anthony C. Schmidt Fine Art Inc.
PUBLICATIONS:
"35x35" Copelouzos Family Museum, Damco Energy
"Unique Minds: Creative Voices" Mental Health, Princeton University Edu. 2020
EDUCATION:
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, BFA
New York Academy of Art, New York, NY, Painting
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, Painting
