From the midwest, Shanna Allyn is an emerging artist who lives and works in New York City. She holds a BA in Liberal Arts & Sciences from the University of Wisconsin River Falls.

Her work is a series of collages that stimulate feelings of bewilderment, pain, flaw and sarcasm. Faceless images within her work can represent a hidden identity, a so-called mask. Each of us have our own complexities. From highs to lows, we work to maintain a balance. Freud understood the mind as constantly in conflict with itself, and understood this conflict as the primary cause of human anxiety. Nothing in this world is perfect. Perfect doesn't exsist.

Since moving to New York, Allyn has interned for SoHo photographer Barnaby Draper as well as Ford Models. She will begin working full-time for the Tyra show as a junior editor/graphic designer the end of July.

"Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality, and eats away its vital unity. . . hate destroys a person's sense of values and objectivity. . . it causes them to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful. . . and to confuse the true with false and the false with true."

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Art is what you can get away with."

-Andy Warhol