One of our members, Nelsena Burt-Spano, just brought my attention to the work of Alexa Meade. My mind is offically blown.
Meade paints her subjects. Literally. She layers thick impasto onto real people, placing them in installations which are also painted, so that her final result resembles a gorgeously painted but disconcertingly mobile canvas. The photographs taken of her work in galleries are dizzying – the scenes she creates look so much like skillful paintings, and yet suddenly the eye catches the place where the painted sheet on the floor begins to resemble an actual sheet, and the perspective tilts jarringly as you realize the ‘subject’ is just as 3-dimensional as the man standing staring at her, agog. This is a congruence of skill and creativity that I don’t find often. More information can be found here, and Alexa Meade’s website has her full portfolio. As she states on her site, “Essentially, her art imitates life on top of life.”
Fascinating.
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