Alexa Meade- Body painting artist

Alexa Meade is a body painting artist from Washington D.C. Her work is well known with its unique type of body art and most well known for her recent work in an Ariana Grande music video. Alexa is known for body painting people to blend in the painted background. Making it all look like a 2D canvas.

Essentially, instead of making a canvas come to life like most artists, she's altering real life so that it can be put on a canvas. For Meade, transforming three dimensional objects to appear more flat is “a beautiful way of capturing something everyday and representing it in a new light, quite literally with the introducing of light and shadows.”
It all started when Meade's previous collaboration with Sheila Vand and milk caught the attention of Grande’s manager, and they spent years in talks about working on a music video before coming together for the "God Is A Woman" clip. “They wanted the imagery to feel somewhat suggestive and evocative, and almost in a way of a Georgia O’Keefe painting,” Meade says of the team's idea for the video, when we speak over the phone. “So we started with the base inspiration for the shape around Ariana in the liquid to be like a Georgia O’Keefe flower.”