There was a short write-up on the paintings in the email. I did not pay much attention to the write-up until I realized that the paintings were not "paintings" at all!
If I have only one word to describe this, I would say, AMAZING!
The texts in the email are as follows:
"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 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.
I was lucky enough to catch up with Meade and ask her about her thought process behind this creative work. Here is what she said:
"I paint representational portraits directly on top of the people I am representing. The models are transformed into embodiments of the artist's interpretation of their essence. When captured on film, the living, breathing people underneath the paint disappear, overshadowed by the masks of themselves.""
I do not know who wrote the above write-up and so, I Googled the entire text... LOL. The credit for the above article goes to Alice (her blog) and it was published on her site under this article, "Hyper-Realistic Acrylic Body Painting (15 pics)". The following are just some photos from her blog.
Anyway, thanks to Alice and my friend (who email me the post), Alexa Meade has a new fan :-) Cheers!
More information:
- Alexa Meade - http://www.alexameade.com/
- Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexa_Meade
- Alice - http://www.mymodernmet.com/profile/alice
