Alyssa Deville "Dreamland 2016 Acrylic 4 x 4 inches
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Alyssa Deville Web Information
"Alyssa Blessing DeVille, native to Southern California, spent her entire childhood in the beautiful city of Claremont. Excelling in art at an early age pushed her further north to pursue a Bachelor of Fine Arts in illustration at California College of Art, San Francisco. In her last year of undergrad she unfortunately discovered large scale, indirect oil painting and heartlessly abandoned her dream of working for Pixar to explore personal themes of an enigmatic nature. Under the mentorship of several world renowned illustrators, she graduated top in her class with numerous academic awards and promptly moved across the country to obtain her Masters at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Within the first two weeks of her new life she met her now husband, Sterling Shaw, a phenomenal Philadelphian artist, who helped her navigate the rocky transition from illustrator to fine artist.
Alyssa has exhibited work at The Society of Illustrators in New York, The Jonathan Levine Projects in New Jersey, and Philadelphia’s own Gross McCleaf gallery to name a few. Her paintings have been privately collected and commissioned by numerous patrons across the United States. Alyssa resides in south Philadelphia with her husband and young son, Odilon, along with their two cats Talia and Easel. In addition to maintaining a studio practice and discovering the joys/horrors of motherhood, Alyssa is an adjunct professor at Pennsylvania College of Art & Design in Lancaster and teaching assistant for children and young adults with special needs at Main Line Art Center in Haverford." -FD
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