The Breathtaking Beauty and Artist Skills of Jersey Girl Alysha Grace Marko
Alysha Grace Marko in Venice Beach, California
Model and artist Alysha Grace Marko is a Shore Thang modeling alum. Alysha Grace who is of Italian American and Ukrainian descent, had a love for the performing arts since childhood. She was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Alysha, as per her bio on the AMRM Gallery site, grew up traveling around the country, “which allowed her social personality to butterfly”. Alysha developed a love of performing as she was singing, dancing, and was active in theater. She credits her upbringing for being comfortable in front of the camera, with her father often documenting the family on camera. Alysha Grace has a diverse range of interests. Alysha had attended the University of Massachusetts, at the Amherst campus. She had gone on to graduate from Seton Hall University with a psychology degree. Her background in psychology as per 1stDibs, enriched her artwork and gave it emotional depth. “Painting became a form of archetypal psychoanalysis of society and self reflection”.
Her artwork is described as having a lot of color as well as movement. Alysha Grace shares that she was very inspired by the atmosphere around her. According to Alysha, “I love being around people and experiencing new things. I think that’s really where it may have come from was moving around a lot, just being able to pick up and move every two years”. Upon graduation, Alysha had moved to Los Angeles, California in pursuit of acting and modeling. She had appeared in both Elle fashion magazine, Zishy and Playboy. To her credit, Alysha Grace had also appeared in film, theatre productions and on television. This voluptuous, smoldering, brunette beauty is also an actress, and a multifaceted original creator. Her curvaceous beauty has graced Shore Thang Media’s ‘Petite Curve Models,’ in the form of high resolution photo spreads, bts, unpublished images and original content. Alysha’s impressive measurements as per her Model Mayhem profile, cite her as a statuesque five foot ten inches tall, one hundred and twenty six pounds. She has an hourglass 36” - 25” - 37” with an ample D cup and wears a size four in dresses. She has medium brown hair with hazel eyes and glowing olive skin. As per model mayhem, Alysha specializes in dance, art, editorial, fashion, fit modeling, fitness, glamour, lifestyle, lingerie, parts modeling, pinup, promotional, sports and the swimwear genre of modeling.
Barstool sports did a modeling profile of Alysha and her Ukrainian and Sicilian heritage, titled ‘Wake Up With Alysha Grace Marko’. Featuring her in a white bikini as she brought the fire. Alysha’s breadth and scope in modeling, is an example of her multifaceted range of experience, as well as versatility. Her ‘Alyshagrace’ Instagram has over thirty thousand followers and features her modeling pics, artwork, photography and travel vlogs. In an instagram post Alysha shares a pic from a photoshoot taken by photographer Zachary Elliot captioned ‘another day in a heated pool in LA’. The photo is of Alysha swimming underwater in a striped one piece bathing suit, featuring underwater photography.
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Her modeling collabs with Shore Thang are a highlight, as she worked with the founder Zachary Elliot, appearing in photo spreads between 2016 and 2018. She inspired the relaxed, natural aesthetic for the photo book ‘Lazy Sunday,’ which was published right before Shore Thang was established in 2018. The book was published by the photographer and the creative director of Shore Thang, a global model management company. ‘Lazy Sunday,’ as per ShoreThang.com “compiles portraits of female models in relaxed settings, emphasizing comfort, form and natural light”.
Recounting how the idea for this book had first taken shape, here on Petite Curve, “What’s it like working with Alysha Grace Marko,” Alysha had been wearing a men’s dress shirt, and she had come up with the idea of calling it ‘Lazy Sunday’. Alysha who has been described as a super beauty, whose aesthetic is characteristic of a Shore Thang model. A notable collaboration with Zachary Elliot was a photoshoot on San Miguel, which is one of the Channel Islands of the coast of Southern California.
Many of the top pics from her shoots with photographer Zachary Elliot are available on Cali Stoner Girls. In a promotional video for Shore Thang, on the Los Angeles Modeling agency’s YouTube channel, shortly before it’s inception, she introduced the many benefits to the new exclusive content platform. The global model management company ShoreThang.com being a platform for both customers and creators, which allows for “getting ten times the amount of content,” than other platforms. Customers get more content and creators get a “safe space” which she highlights as “soft core” and “R-rated,”as well as ethical.
Alysha Grace Marko is also a model of body positivity, as she has noticeable scars from childhood surgery to remove a tumor. Which saw her wearing a full body cast and then left with scars across her back and torso. The scars, which she has embraced and displays proudly when she models lingerie, swimsuits and body shots. In a photoshoot with Jamiya Wilson for the Jamiya Wilson Studio, she showcases and embraces her scars in the body positive photoshoot. To her credit, Alysha did not allow her scars to be a setback, they figure prominently in her work, making her unique. Grace’s scars accentuate her beauty even more. On her instagram, Alysha features her photoshoots with photographer Scott Storm Images, as she models lingerie for the ‘Morning Glory’ photo series. Instead of masking her beauty, Alysha’s scars showcase her beauty and she shines brighter because of them. Thus making her a paradigm of body acceptance and positive self image. Alysha has also done editorial fashion work for Macy’s as she had modeled for the Cenia New York fall collection. She has modeled swimwear from such brands as Monaco Swim and has appeared nude in a photo study for rare.portraits. Alysha has also modeled lingerie for Madison Close NYC and did lingerie pictorials for Playboy.
Alysha Grace Marko, from the coffee table book Lazy Sunday
Alysha Grace has worked with Naughty Knickers, which is a luxury lingerie brand. Her classic beauty was captured in an Audrey Hepburn style by photographer Emiliano Baccarini. As well as appearing in fashion editorials by photographer Kristen Walther. The fashion video which was produced by Klickpicks is on her YouTube channel. Alysha’s body of modeling work is featured in parts model.com which displays her impressive body of work and her exceptional range as a model. She was also notably featured in a fashion editorial by Elle Asia. Going beyond modeling, Grace ventured into acting. Her notable acting work consists of appearances in the commercial ‘I Stubble Team Game Face,” and the ShoreThang.com intro video.
She first appeared in movies in 2012, in the short action comedy film ‘Tiramisu,’ which was fourteen minutes long and written by Lawrence Michael Parker. Described as a fast paced, suspenseful and stylish caper, where she played the role of the call girl. . She went on to appear in another short film, based on T.S. Eliot’s writing in the 2015 ‘Tll Human Voices Wake US,’ where she played the role of Linda. In 2016, she appeared in the TV movie, ‘Hollywood Fiction’ a dramatic thriller in the role of the club girl. Her work in television also extended to the 2015/TV series ‘The Ultimate Evil’ in the role of the TV station makeup artist. The TV series is a mystery about an investigative journalist trying to divulge the truth behind the Son of Sam murders in New York City in the 1970s. She had also appeared in interactive media and video games. Her first role in a video game was in 2014, when she played the role of the Rocker Babe in ‘Rev It Up’. In 2015, Alysha played the role of the Pirate Maiden in the video game ‘Black Snail Bounty’.
Alysha Grace during a recent shoot on the Channel Islands, off the coast of Southern California
Alysha Grace Marko, as per her instagram, has studied the “Oscar winning Bateson technique,” at the Susan Bateson Studio. She has gained significant theatrical acting experience when she had appeared in the play “Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,” by playwright John Patrick Stanley. Grace, who is a New Jersey native is the penultimate New Yorker. According to the biographical sketch on the AMRM Gallery site, Alysha’s career trajectory has seen her go from model, personal trainer, to actress, painter and gallerist. It was in Los Angeles that Alysha had fallen in love with painting. She had then “moved on to become an abstract and figurative artist based in New York City”. For Alysha painting is like “looking in the mirror of painting myself is a way to figure myself out. I like to paint my friends…I’m always with myself, so it’s easy to pick up a mirror and just have a subject and study”. Alysha’s painting and photography has themes of female empowerment. The female subjects of her art are presented in themes of vulnerability, transformation and strength. She has studied and practiced her art whilst being an artist in residence in Italy. She has an original NFT, as per her Linktree link in instagram bio titled “Polaroid Daze,’ that is available for purchase on OpeanSea. Adding gallerist to another of Alysha’s many talents, she curated the art of many talented new artists, including herself for her gallery.
The artists which Alysha features in her gallery are emerging as well as contemporary artists who are in the middle of their careers. She had first started her gallery on the upper east side of New York City in 2019 originally called UEast75. Alysha Grace founded her own gallery in New York City, the AMRM NYC, on 12 East 69th Street, between Fifth and Madison Avenues. Artist, Alysha Grace’s gallery New York City AMRM concentrates on contemporary art with paintings and sculptures, which are curated and exhibited by her. As per the AMRM Gallery and the blurbs published about the artists that are displayed there, who are vibrant abstract painters, contemporary figurative artists, sculptors and bold creators from the United States and Latin America. The roster of artists which Alysha Grace Marko’s gallery has featured are Angela China, who was part of ‘’The New Surreal” and the “Warm Thoughts:The Winter Show,” group exhibitions and whose work has been described as dreamlike with imaginative, abstract compositions.
Artist, Renelio Marin and his solo exhibition “The Two Suns: As The World Runs It’s Course,” whose style is described as surreal. Juan Lazaro, whose portrayals of life in Cuba in his vivid painting style has been featured in the Hampton’s pop up exhibit “Musing and Mastering: The Ordinary”. Other artists featured in the same pop up exhibition were Rodrigo Pedrosa’s paintings and sculptures that are described as metaphorical by Metropolitan Magazine. Carlos Rafael Vega Pérez, whose art is surrealistic and dream like. Another contributor to this exhibit is the emerging American, New York based artist Lane Rudder, whose surrealist style art has themes of trauma and healing, as per the Metropolitan Magazine. AMRM NYC gallery also features Alysha Grace’s original artwork and photography. Alysha’s eponymous website, also has a shop called the “AMRM online gallery shop,” which includes her original artwork and that of the gallery’s featured artists, for purchase. The online gallery shop’s description of the AMRM gallery states that it offers “an immersive experience”. The artists whose unique art is available on the AMRM’s gallery online shop are David Richardson, whose contemporary work “Argive,” is notable. The abstract painting “Infinity,” by the artist Nancy Pantirer as well as the geometric, abstract works of artist Bernardo Navarro are also featured on the gallery’s online shop. Alysha Grace Marko has a passion for discovering new artists. The online shop as sells merch such as T-shirts, water bottles, tote bags, hats, umbrellas, and swimsuits emblazoned with the gallery’s original artwork. The AMRM gallery has put on group and solo exhibits such as “The New Surreal,” “NYC in Frame,” as well as “Interactivity,” that range from abstract sculptures, to surreal and watercolor on paper. Included in the exhibitions are also solo exhibitions of Alysha’s original artwork such as “Fragments of Enchantment”.
The exhibition was in December of 2024, featured Alysha Marko’s recent painting ‘War within’. As per AMRM, the exhibition displayed artwork which “explores the dichotomy between childhood dreams and adult realities”.
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