Alexa Meade - Live installation: Acrylic paint on found objects, walls, and flesh

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.

That’s right, that’s a real, live person covered in acrylic paint made to look like a flat painting. Amazing.

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Sten and Lex’s Poster Stencils.

These pieces are stunning.  They are a matrix of stencils, pasted on wood, painted, and then selectively destroyed, to create large scale photos of people.  You need to click through just to watch their process.

This is fantastic and amazing and I love it so much.

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Mauritian Sunset by sandysmith

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