[1] She specializes in large oil paintings and is recognized both in the United States and Europe for her work featuring figures obscured by water, steam, and vinyl.
[2] Her notable series of work centering around figures in bathrooms, tubs, and showers garnered attention from the worldwide art community and the press.
For its final season, Monks created the paintings and drawings used on set for the character Erica, an artist wife of a nuclear arms dealer who is bedridden with cancer.
Monks's work can be seen in the background of a critical scene for the final season of the show, in which the main character Elizabeth Jennings enters Erica's bedroom, disguised as an aid.
[10] Monks has shown her work across the globe, including one show, called Resolution, which ran in spring 2016 at the Forum Gallery in New York City.
Other notable shows and collections that include her work are the Kunst Museum in Ahlen, Germany, the National Academy Museum of Fine Arts’ show Reconfiguring the Body in American Art, 1820–2009, as well as the private collections of Eric Fischl, Howard Tullman, Gerrity Lansing, Danielle Steel, Alec Baldwin, and Luciano Benetton.