Amy Dresser

Native of Bucksport, Maine, USA. She graduated from Hofstra University in 1998 with a B.S. in 'Fine Arts', specializing in figurative and portrait painting. She started her commercial art "adventures" as an illustrator and managing editor for Nonsense, the campus humor magazine. In 1999 she received a Post-Baccalaureate in Painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. After graduating, she moved back to New York. She freelanced in illustration before being hired by Jill Greenberg as her full-time retoucher in 2000. Now based in Los Angeles, she has worked as a freelance photo retoucher and illustrator.