This Is Not a Picture

Things are not always what they seem

Look at the above picture. Looks like a nice enough oil painting, right? Wrong. It's actually a photograph of a real life situation with objects, people and places covered in acrylic paint.

Alexa Meade has innovated a Trompe-L’Oeil painting technique that can perceptually compress three-dimensional space into a two-dimensional plane. Her work is a remarkable fusion of installation, painting, performance, photography and video art, and is a truly unique subversion of a centuries-old formula.