Inspiration - Alexa Meade

Alexa Meade is an Artist who has left me with a lot of inspiration for her work.  She is a very talented painter who uses performance, instillation, photography and painting in her work.  She paints onto the model in a very unique way that I hadn't seen before. She combines the person into the image to look like a canvas painting. Here is a short video about Alexa Meade. 

http://alexameade.com/index.html

Analysis

The denotation of her images are what I can actually see and they are what looks like a canvas painting, it's only when you look very closely that you realise that it is an actual human person that had been painted on and the connotation is that it is meant to be deceiving. The viewer is supposed to think that it is an actual painting and not realise the real body.  The thing I really like about this work is the fact that there is no digital manipulation used in her images at all, and all the painting is done by herself. 

The strengths in this work is that there are a number of different mediums used which gives a wide variety as an artist for her, and the fact the audience can be at any age.  She talks about how the children seem to notice before the adults do which is interesting.  The things I will take forward from her work to think about in my own is the fact of not cheating photography and using what you see rather than digital manipulation.  

I do think this work is very interesting and was definitely something that I wanted to show within my research because I know that if i was able to paint, I would try this idea for myself and consider using it in my project but I will use it as inspiration to experiment more with different media's.