A fascinating idea perfectly executed. She paints her subjects -- I mean actually paints them -- with acrylic and then poses them in either painterly or realistic settings. The overall effect is a delight. From My Modern Met:
Hyper-Realistic Acrylic Body Painting
Alexa Meade thinks completely backwards. Most artists use acrylic paints to create portraits of people on canvas. But not Meade - she applies acrylic paints on her subjects and makes them appear to be a part of the painting!
Meade is an installation artist based in the Washington, DC area. Her background in the world of Political Communications has fueled her intellectual interest in the tensions between perception and reality.
Her innovative use of paint on the three dimensional surfaces of found objects, live models, and architectural spaces has been incorporated into a series of installations that create a perceptual shift in how we experience and interpret spatial relationships.
Here are two of her paintings:
Her personal website is here: Alexa Meade Would not mind having a print of hers hanging in the DaveCave(tm)
