Alexa Meade's paintings

The Los Angeles artist creates mind-boggling works of art on humans. ​She paints directly onto the bodies and faces of models, using brushstrokes and shadows to camouflage figures into their background, turning a 3D scene into a 2D image.
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Alexa Meade and Sheila Vand. You have to check out her technique -- see http://www.ted.com/talks/alexa_meade.html
Alexa Meade Traps You Inside a Painting
Alexa Meade Traps You Inside a Painting - My Modern Metropolis
Paintings In (Really) Living Color
Transfixed 2, 2011 (by Alexa Meade). Real, live people painted in arcylic and then posed in photographs.
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Photos by Alexa Meade, Courtesy of Irvine Contemporary 'Victorious on the Streets' This model, named Victoria, is "tall and strking," Meade said. To magnify her visual impact on a city street, the artist gave her a deliberately over-the-top outfit.
Alexa Meade is an American installation artist best known for her portraits painted directly onto the human body and inanimate objects in a way that collapses depth and makes her models appear two-dimensional when photographed
The Los Angeles artist creates mind-boggling works of art on humans. ​She paints directly onto the bodies and faces of models, using brushstrokes and shadows to camouflage figures into their background, turning a 3D scene into a 2D image