It's Only Natural For Us To Be Confused When Someone Paints People Like That...
Are these paintings or people? Unconventional artist Alexa Meade slathers her subjects with paint, and even dunks them in a bathtub of milk, in pursuit of the perfect portrait. The results will make you question where reality begins and ends, and what it means to create art.
By Judith Yeoh — 17 Nov 2013, 02:09 PM — Updated over 10 years ago
Alexa Meade is a painter who creates extraordinary paintings by using the human body as her primary canvas
Alexa Meade turned her first person into a real life, three-dimensional painting in April of 2009. Now, four years later, she is known the world over as the artist who uses the human body as her canvas, creating photographs you would be hard-pressed to differentiate from two-dimensional paintings.
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Her work is almost illusionary in nature, collapsing any sense depth and reduce living models into 2D pictures.
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It’s mind-boggling to see and interestingly enough, a total subversion of the celebrated trompe l’oeil – an artistic technique whereby 2D objects are represented to exist in three dimensions, a forced optical illusion if you will.
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This painting of a street art scene includes a surprise. The black-and-white figure is a painted person standing in front of a background
Behind the scenes of “Risen.” This photograph of Alexa Meade photographing a scene gives a peek into her process.
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Her work causes you to pause and look at little closer, such is the brilliance of its execution
Bold colours, characters that don’t seem real, but actually are and a sense of the surreal are just some of her trademarks on display.
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She gave up on her political dreams in order to explore her new-found talent
Giving up on her political dreams in order to explore this new-found talent required that she move into her parents’ basement instead of an apartment in DC, and begin experimenting with painting for the first time since the summer camp days of her youth.
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