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An American artist has caused quite a stir after her work was
heralded for making live models look like still canvasses in an
ingenious illusion.
Alexa Meade, 24, has perfected the art of making real subjects look
like still life - by painting directly onto her models with a
background behind. The final result leaves the subject appearing
two-dimensional.
Meade’s work has been showcased at the Irvine Contemporary gallery
in Washington DC, where the talented artist grew up. Formerly
working as a press intern on the Obama campaign, Meade has had no
formal painting education.
“Spending my formative years immersed in the world of politicians
and PR led to a fascination with the possibilities of repackaging
source texts and adding superficial modifications that would
profoundly alter perception,” Meade states on her website.
“In my current work, I construct and then photograph ephemeral
installation sets that feature an assemblage of found objects and
live models, which I have covered in layers of acrylic paint,” she
added.
“I paint the surfaces of the human subjects, the material objects,
and the architecture of the installations so as to collapse the
subject, foreground and background into one continuous
plane”.
