Alexa Meade paints portraits on the human body that turn real life people into living works of art.
Alexa Meade is 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. What remains is `a photo of a painting of a person, and the real person hidden somewhere underneath.` She takes a classical concept - trompe l`oeil, the art of making a two-dimensional representational painting look like a real three-dimensional space - and turns it on its head by doing the opposite, making real life appear to be a painting.