all photos: Ben Droz
Alexa Meade is a portrait artist like no other. Instead of paintings on a flat canvas, Alexa Meade creates her representational paintings directly on top of the physical subjects that she is referencing, all of which look like two-dimensional paintings when photographed.
Last week, she joined forces with National Portrait Gallery for “PORTRAITS AFTER 5: Camera-Ready Color” and created an interactive installation in the Kogod Courtyard that allowed viewers of the art to become participants–by entering into the space, experiencing it “in depth,” and reinterpreting the work through their own photography. The installation referenced the innovation in Harry Warnecke’s photographic portraits seen in the National Portrait Gallery’s exhibition: “In Vibrant Color”.
Enjoy the photos of this truly inspiring evening:
Art has a trillion dimensions and as you have said “Alexa Meade is a portrait artist like no other”! The very idea of painting her subjects and then photographing them is unique and may be called another brilliant instance of original creativity. She must surely be having a brilliant mind to be able to have thought of merging two of the most divergent kinds of artistic creativity – Painting and Photography are different very difficult arts in their own right – and all one can say with a big leap and a cheer is “SHE DUN IT!!!!!!!”
May people like this outstanding personality always arise from our mother Earth to glorify it for future generations!