User:Caitlinb2016/gap analysis

Gap analysis

 * What is the title of the article in which you identified a gap. If no article exists at all, what should the title be?

"Jennifer Linton" should be the title of the Wikipedia article for the artist I researched.
 * Document the gap you found, describe how you identified it, and analyze its impact on knowledge.

I began my search for a “gap” by looking at the Wikipedia pages of artists and various concepts we had studied in class already, but found that most of the information was covered fairly sufficiently and the artists that they had collaborated with in the past already had Wikipedia pages established. After that, I decided to look up “unknown feminist artists” on Google and was led to an article on Art History Archive that listed the names of feminist artists I had never heard of before. After doing research on the artists listed and realizing that many of them didn’t have a Wikipedia page of their own, I decided to focus on art made by Jennifer Linton, a Canadian artist who has received recognition in the art world, but still doesn’t have a Wikipedia page about her. Her art focuses on addressing the concept of gender and sharing the experiences of women in a quirky or funny way that may be easier for a larger audience to understand or digest. However, her work has begun to evolve to explore questions revolving around motherhood, pregnancy, body image, and sexuality due to her personal experience as a mother. Without the inclusion of a Wikipedia page for Linton, the overall knowledge and inclusion of feminist artists in the narrative of art and art history as a whole continues to be limited; the potential impact of her artwork on society is prevented as a result of this “gap” in our knowledge and her hard work and contributions to the feminist art movement through her exploration of gender and women’s experiences deserve recognition, which I’m attempting to fill through my Wikipedia Gap Analysis.
 * Propose a paragraph of new or substantially edited content based on reliable sources. (If you are editing existing content, post the current version along with your edited version, and clearly mark which is which.)

Jennifer Linton was born in 1968 in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She obtained both a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto and a Fine Arts Diploma from Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario, Canada in 1992. In addition, in 2010, she obtained her MFA in Visual Art with a specialization in Print Media from York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Linton currently resides in Toronto, where she is an instructor at both OCAD University and Sheridan College.

Linton is an interdisciplinary visual artist who is inspired by the ideas created by second wave feminists and the idea that “the personal is political” that spawned with the rise of this new wave of feminism. She works in mediums such as drawing, printmaking, installations, and, since obtaining her MFA in visual arts, has expanded her practice to animation as well. She now runs an animation company called Papercut Pictures and focuses on creating short animated films. In the past, she has focused mainly on exploring gender and traditional experiences of women through her art, but has begun to expand her artistic exploration to subjects such as motherhood, pregnancy, and sexuality because of her own personal experience as a mother. She is the mother of one son and often draws inspiration from her own experiences in this role when creating art that focuses on these issues.

Linton has had her art featured in solo and group exhibitions, both locally and internationally. Currently, she has had 11 solo exhibitions with her most recent being in 2012 and 23 group exhibitions with her most recent being in 2015. She has received countless grants and accolades since 2000 and has been the subject of various interviews for various publications and media platforms.

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