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March 22, 2010 12:12 PM   Subscribe

Acrylic paintings of people, on people. 23-year-old mixed media artist Alexa Meade uses acrylic paint applied directly onto models to skew the separation of portraiture and subject.

Though Meade also paints (on) traditional still life objects, her main interest is the interaction between living art and its viewers. During her first gallery show Meade projected a live feed of a living portrait onto a picture frame on the wall, as patrons interacted with both the "art object" and the video painting. Concerning the unsettling feelings some patrons experience, Meade explains that "It's not often an object can return the gaze of the viewer. Many viewers feel uncomfortable making direct eye contact. There's a lot of sideways glances. "
posted by joechip (5 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: This kind of makes those guys who draw on your face with magic marker after you pass out look kind of amateurish by comparison. -- cortex



 
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posted by Horace Rumpole at 12:13 PM on March 22, 2010


Oh, how did I miss that? Drat.
posted by joechip at 12:14 PM on March 22, 2010


I'll just go ahead and close this up then.
posted by djgh at 12:19 PM on March 22, 2010


That's gotta be hell on the pores.
posted by griphus at 12:25 PM on March 22, 2010


Such a cold finger,
Becons you to enter his web of sin!
posted by Pollomacho at 12:36 PM on March 22, 2010


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