Living "paintings"

David Pescovitz 10:46 am Tue Apr 20, 2010

Alexa Meade, 23, is a Washington, DC-based artist who paints on top of her subjects and puts them in real life settings. (No, you can't see the pixels. This is real.) From Meade's artist statement:

The reverse trompe l'oeil series is Alexa Meade's spin on reality. Alexa has invented a painting technique that makes 3 dimensional space look flat, blurring the lines between illusion and reality.

Typically a painting is an artist's interpretation of the subject painted onto another surface. In Alexa's paintings, she creates her artistic interpretation of the subject directly on top of the subject itself. Essentially, her art imitates life – on top of life.

By wrapping her subject in a mask of paint, she skews the way that the core of the subject is perceived.

Alexa Meade (Thanks to Hi-Fructose and all who pointed me to this)

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