User:Carly yamamoto2/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?

"Ryoko Suzuki"


 * Document the gap you found, describe how you identified it, and analyze its impact on knowledge.

I chose to look up an artist named Ryoko Suzuki. She is an established artist from Japan. Her artwork shows the inequality of how women and girls are treated in many aspects of society. She challenges a lot of social and gender stereotypes. Through searching the information on Ryoko Suzuki in Wikipedia, I have found there is a large gap on viable information about this artist. Unfortunately her Wikipedia page skips over many of her accomplishments, art pieces, and history. This Wiki page only mentions a small bit of all of her artwork and the galleries in which they are displayed. Although it gives a slight peek into her origin and transformation, it skips the backbone of her journey to become an artist. Suzuki uses many different types of media, but they are barely mentioned in the Wiki article. The lack of information on Suzuki’s Wiki site further the ignorance of society on the issues that she herself brings out to be considered through her art. She challenges the sexualization of the female identity, the inequality between females and males, as well as many other gender based injustices. Further information about this artist could help bring to light the differences in injustices from different countries, cultures, and races. Suzuki does more than just point out gender inequalities. Her work simultaneously challenges the ideas of sexualization, class differences, and the difference in cultural norms.


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Original: "Ryoko Suzuki (born 1970) is a contemporary Japanese artist, using photography as her main medium. Her work uses highly constructed images to comment on the designated social roles of women living in contemporary Japan.[1]

Born in 1970 in Hokkaido, Japan. In 1990 she graduated from Junior College of Art at Musashino Art University, Tokyo and in 1999 she graduated from Sokei Academy of Fine Art,Tokyo.[2]

The photographs of the artist concern the homogenized standards of beauty on display in mainstream visual culture. Her photographs approach the issue of how women and girls are represented in society and the media, literally comparing her own image to cartoon sex objects of contemporary popular culture.[3] In her series Anikora, Suzuki adapts the idol collage (aidoru koraju), often used to superimpose famous women's faces onto nude bodies. In the work she collages her own face over anime torsos.[4]

In 2007, her work was recognized through its inclusion in a major international survey, “Global Feminisms" at the Brooklyn Museum, New York.[3]"

Edit: Ryoko Suzuki is a bold, contemporary artist. She was born in Hokkaido, Japan in 1970. She has an extensive background in art. Graduating from two fine art establishments both in Tokyo. First in 1990 from the Junior College of Art at Musashino Art University in, and in 1999 from Sokei Academy of Fine Arts. She was entirely born and raised in Japan, and remains there today with her husband and family. The main medium of her work is photography, but she also has a few key pieces in which she superimposes photos of herself onto images of popular anime characters. Her work was first introduced to the public in 2000 and it continued to spread throughout the decade. In 2007, however, her work was nationally recognized in the Brooklyn Museum in New York. Some of her most well known pieces are the “Mama Doll” (2004), “Anikora” (2008), and “Anikora-Kawaii” (2009) series. Most recently her “I am…” (2011) Collection was released. All of the previously mentioned exhibitions were artwork are digitally altered pieces that sometimes combine photographs with digital and drawn images. Suzuki also has pieces with the sole medium being photography. Her collections of “Bind”(2001) and “Human Being” are pieces that were considered to bring her into the “adult world” and into her “womanhood”. These pieces challenged society norms of cuteness and stereotypical body types. Suzuki brings a more modern and out-of-the-box creative style to her art pieces. Her style brings about a new way to question gender norms and societies standards of beauty and sexuality.


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 * Wakling, Emily. (1 December 2011). ‘Ryoko Suzuki: “I am…”’. The Japan Times. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
 * “Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art: Feminist Art Base: Ryoko Suzuki.” Brooklyn Museum. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
 * Katie. “Ryoko Suzuki”. Feminist Art Archive. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
 * “Anikora”. Andrew James Art. 14 November 2009. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
 * “Ryoko Suzuki: 1970 Japan”. Photography-now.com. Retrieved 17 February 2016.