What one experiences cannot always be interpreted at face value — Alexa Meade

'What one experiences cannot always be interpreted at face value' — Alexa Meade:

From a website: "Alexa Meade, an installation artist based in Washington, D.C., paints with acrylics directly on human flesh, creating the illusion of painterly portraits."

From a CNN International feature earlier this year:

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Artist Alexa Meade's subjects are painted people that look like they have just stepped off a canvas.

Instead of using acrylic paints to create portraits of people on canvas, the artist paints people and objects to make them look like 2-D paintings.

The result is walking, talking optical illusions, 3-D paintings that confuse how the eye processes objects in space.

 

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She'll be exhibiting a live installation and limited-edition photographic prints in the two-person show "Picture Planes" at Irvine Contemporary in Washington, D.C., from Saturday, June 19, 2010 until July 24, 2010. The opening reception is this Saturday evening, June 19, 2010, from 6 to 10 p.m. Say "Hi" for me if you happen by.

Above and below,

the artist.

 

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