Alexa Meade

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Alexa Meade (* 1986 in Washington, DC ) is an American artist known for her illusionistic painting .

She uses the trompe-l'œil , which creates a three-dimensionality from the two-dimensional representation . With the peculiarity that she tries to turn her predominantly lively motifs and consequently plastic effects into their opposite. Your goal is to make the three-dimensional, like a normal picture, appear two-dimensional. The results are moving, interactive paintings that irritate the eye when processing the spatial effect .

life and career

Childhood, youth and education

Alexa Meade was born in Washington, DC in 1986. In 2009 she graduated from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie , New York with a BA in Political Science . Meade never went to art school, she brought himself to paint self-taught at. In an interview, she stated that she did not have to think about painting like painting on canvas because she had no practice in it. She saw painting as something that could be used anywhere. In 2009 she decided to professionalize her work.

technology

Alexa Meade paints a living motif

Meade uses acrylic paint on the surfaces of people and the objects around them in a style that mimics the brushwork on a traditional painting. The dimensionality may be captured from several angles, but when viewed it looks like a surface, comparable to looking through the lens of a camera, without any visual effects . Curator Christian Furr of the Saatchi Gallery describes her work as "an advance on the actual trompe l'oeil."

A director of the National Portrait Gallery said he was impressed. He thought he knew what he was seeing. Now he knows that he does not know. What remains are portraits in triplicate. "A photo of one person painting another and hiding the person somewhere below."

Meade portrayed in collaboration with artists such as three-time Grammy Award winner Gotye .

Resonances

Performance in the Washington Metro

Magdalena Sawon, owner of the Postmasters Gallery in New York, said that "Alexa Meade's work is a recognized, interesting contribution to the portrait genre."

Washington Post's Dan Zak describes her work as "brave, focused, and media-rich, [she] stitched her political and artistic sides together and campaigned for a long-term career in the arts."

Exhibitions / appearances

Meade has exhibited her work in the Saatchi Gallery in London, the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery in Washington, the Ivo Kamm Gallery in Zurich , the Gallery for Contemporary Photography in Munich and the Postmasters Gallery in New York.

The European Director of the TED Conference, Bruno Giussani, invited Alexa Meade to TEDGlobal 2013 in Edinburgh , Scotland.

Web links

Commons : Alexa Meade  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "In Reverse Trompe L'Oeil, Models Are Both Subject and Painting Surface," PBS NewsHour
  2. ^ Mairi Mackay: The artist who turns people into paintings . In: CNN , March 19, 2010. 
  3. ↑ "Vassar Info." Vassar College.
  4. ↑ Rodriguez, Matthew. "Real Life Paintings" ( Memento from March 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). SUNfiltered: Fresh Culture Daily , March 20, 2010
  5. ^ "Artist Alexa Meade: Full Talk from Wired 2012" Wired.co.uk October 25, 2012
  6. ↑ "Body art: Alexa Meade's living paintings" The Guardian August 31, 2011
  7. ↑ a b c d e Dan Zak: Flesh perspective: Alexa Meade's growing body of work is work of the body . The Washington Post. March 24, 2010. Retrieved December 6, 2013.
  8. ^ Nell Alk: The Artist in Action . In: Wall Street Journal , June 11, 2012. 
  9. ^ Adam Cole: Paintings In (Really) Living Color: The Picture Show . NPR. June 8, 2012. Retrieved December 6, 2013.
  10. ↑ Cortellucci, Romina S .: Participatory Living Paintings - The Trappings of Alexa Meade 'Portraits After 5: Camera-Ready' . Trendhunter.com. June 15, 2012. Retrieved December 6, 2013.
  11. ↑ Self-Satisfied by Alexa Meade from Galerie Ivo Kamm Latin American Art . Artnet.com. Retrieved December 6, 2013.
  12. ↑ INTRO15 . In: Depths, Risen, Death Mask . ingoseufert.com. Retrieved April 18, 2014.
  13. ↑ Alexa Meade Bio . In: Curiosity . Discovery.com. March 23, 2010. Archived from the original on April 15, 2013. Retrieved on February 25, 2020.
  14. ^ TEDGlobal 2013: Program Guide . Ted Conferences. Retrieved December 6, 2013.
  15. ↑ Alexa Meade: Your body is my canvas . In: TEDGlobal 2013 . June 2013. Retrieved September 7, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Meade, Alexa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC