Alexa Meade at the National Portrait Gallery Museum
Portraits After 5: Camera-Ready Color
National Portrait Gallery
Wednesday, June 6, 2012, 5:00 - 7:00 PM
Alexa Meade creates her portraits in three-dimensional space by painting
directly on top of live models, which appear to be two-dimensional
paintings when photographed. For “Portraits After 5: Camera-Ready
Color”, Meade will create an interactive installation in the Kogod
Courtyard of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery that will allow
viewers of the art to become participants by entering into the space,
experiencing it
in depth, and reinterpreting the work through
their own photography. The installation will reference the innovation in
Harry Warnecke's photographic portraits seen in the National Portrait
Gallery's exhibition “In Vibrant Color".
Alexa Meade and National Portrait Gallery Curator Of Photographs Ann M.
Shumard will be available to discuss boundary-breaking work in
portraiture.
For more information about Alexa Meade and her art, visit
alexameade.com.
