Alexa Meade’s Artistic Deception

Incredible pop-out painter from AlJazeeraEnglish on YouTube

You know that feeling you get when you look at a portrait and it’s so life-like that you have to tell yourself it’s not just a person sitting behind a frame? The work of Alexa Meade is going to cause you to do double- and triple-takes next time you’re in the gallery.

Her pieces are a cross between traditional portraiture and performance art and plays with our perceptions and our idea of reality. A piece by Alexa looks like an oil painting of a person, and it’s not until that person blinks or exhales that you realise she’s painted around and on top of a model.

After you watch the video above and have picked your jaw up off the floor, check out the rest of her mind-blowing works here.