American artist Alexa Meade, has perfected the art of making real subjects look like still life - by painting directly onto her models with a background behind, creating an ingenious illusion. The final result leaves the subject appearing two-dimensional.
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Formerly working as a press intern on the Obama campaign, Meade has had no formal painting education.
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“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 said.
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“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”.
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“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”.
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Check her website: http://alexameade.com/
All images are © Copyright of Alexa Meade.

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 said.

“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”.

“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”.






Check her website: http://alexameade.com/
All images are © Copyright of Alexa Meade.
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