::Thanks to Sara D for pointing me towards this artist::
Alexa Meade is a painter based in Washington DC. Her work is incredible, she paints directly onto her subject, and then rephotographs the "painting" to take it from the 3D sphere to the 2D. This is her statement pulled from her website. I have had a hard time trying to describe what I want my work to say, and this I think sums it up beautifully, "experiences cannot always be interpreted at face value; seeing is not necessarily believing." It is such a simple idea, but it is illustrated so carefully in her work.
Alexa Meade is a painter based in Washington DC. Her work is incredible, she paints directly onto her subject, and then rephotographs the "painting" to take it from the 3D sphere to the 2D. This is her statement pulled from her website. I have had a hard time trying to describe what I want my work to say, and this I think sums it up beautifully, "experiences cannot always be interpreted at face value; seeing is not necessarily believing." It is such a simple idea, but it is illustrated so carefully in her work.
"The reverse trompe l’oeil series is Alexa Meade’s spin on reality. Alexa has invented a painting technique that makes 3 dimensional space look flat, blurring the lines between illusion and reality.
Typically a painting is an artist's interpretation of the subject painted onto another surface. In Alexa's paintings, she creates her artistic interpretation of the subject directly on top of the subject itself. Essentially, her art imitates life - on top of life.
By wrapping her subject in a mask of paint, she skews the way that the core of the subject is perceived."
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