The Art of Alexa Meade – Illusion and Reality

Posted By: Whollys Staff on April 14th, 2010 Filed Under: Art

Alexa Meade is a 23-year-old artist based in the Washington, DC.
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.

She uses humans as some of her objects, paints on them and gives them the look of an actual oil painting!