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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a painting of two women standing in front of a mirror
Alexa Meade
a painting of two people standing in front of a window and looking at each other
Alexa Meade Traps You Inside a Painting
Alexa Meade Traps You Inside a Painting - My Modern Metropolis
a painting of a man sitting on top of cubes in front of a colorful background
two mannequins dressed in black and white standing next to a graffiti covered wall
Alexa Meade
two women are painting a car in front of a colorful wall and another woman is kneeling on the ground
a woman standing in front of a swimming pool
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
a painting of a woman holding a purse
Alexa Meade
Alexa Meade for Desigual Barcelona, Spain
two paintings of woman's faces with different colored paint streaks on their face and neck
Alexa Meade and Sheila Vand. You have to check out her technique -- see http://www.ted.com/talks/alexa_meade.html
a man sitting on top of a wooden chair next to a woman in front of a brick wall
Alexa Meade
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a painting of a man sitting in a chair holding a pink bag and wearing sunglasses
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Transfixed 2, 2011 (by Alexa Meade). Real, live people painted in arcylic and then posed in photographs.
a woman is painting a silver statue in a room with paintings on the walls and floor
Alexa Meade
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a woman standing on the side of a street next to a cross walk with graffiti
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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.
a woman with her face painted in green and blue
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
a painting of a woman sitting on a red chair in a room with blue walls
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Alexa Meade