Alexa Maeda is a 24 year old artist, challenges the ideas of traditional painting through her work which intersect painting with photography and performance. Her work involves cover live models, objects, and the architecture of the installations in layers of acrylic paint. As a result, the subject, foreground and background are unified and appears to be on one plane. The 3D space she painted scenes becomes a 2D plane optically.
Alexa's says "I paint representational portraits directly on top of the people I am representing. The models are transformed into embodiments of the artist's interpretation of their essence. When captured on film, the living, breathing people underneath the paint disappear, overshadowed by the masks of themselves." 
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I think this is amazing!
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