Reverse Trompe L’Oeil

Artist Alexa Meade's painted people make it big time

Artist Alexa Meade works in the medium of flesh. The Washington D.C.-based artist, 23, calls her style of portraiture and performance art “Reverse Trompe L’Oeil,” compressing a 3-D space into a 2-D plane by painting directly on models. The resulting photographs of the person within a painted still life makes the illusion complete, an effect that in recent weeks has swept the Internet and landed …

A Shallow Wade

Dutch artist Ron van der Ende's salvaged wood sculptures depicting American absurdity

Dutch artist Ron van der Ende beautifully transforms pieces of found wood into inventive examples of bas-relief, creating sculptures that span the traditional church to a Nascar Charger. Van der Ende displays his labor-intensive works in a new solo show, “A Shallow Wade,” currently on exhibit at Seattle’s Ambach & Rice gallery through 2 May 2010. Exploring a “fractured American consciousness,” works included in the …

Cool Hunting Video Presents: Less and More

Our doc on the exhibit celebrating the "Design Ethos of Dieter Rams"

by Michael Tyburski This video visits a traveling exhibit celebrating the work of Dieter Rams during its stop at the Design Museum London. Director Deyan Sudjic and Michael Czerwinski, who heads up the institution’s public programs, both chime in on what made Rams such an important designer and the show’s scope. The next stop for the exhibition is Frankfurt’s Museum of Applied Art, where you …