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For my Wikipedia gap analysis, I chose to look into Lee Price, a figurative surrealist painter. I chose her because she is currently not represented on Wikipedia and feel that she and her work should be recognized. There is little to no information on her across the Wikipedia site. The lack of information and research in relation to her theme of work and artists only included topics under “gender and food insecurity” and “Gary Lee Price”, an artist with her same name, though is obviously a male counterpart. This gap in Wikipedia limits knowledge and awareness of a unique artist who powerfully showcases the relationship between women, beauty and self-image through food. This is an important gap that should be acknowledged because very few artists capture the relationship between women and food like Price has in these past years. Generally, it is far more common for a woman to feel judged and ashamed of her own body and what she eats than for men to commonly feel this way. The pressures of societal norms to be thin and beautiful have created an unequal gendered norm, where women feel the need to live up to the societal standards in order to be labeled as attractive. Price's theme also captures a common struggle for women in America and all over the world to live a healthy, confident lifestyle, and to not be put down by internal and external standards. Her art contributes to society by empowering women, while also expressing that women should accept and feel comfortable in their skin.

For my gap contribution, I will begin a new article for Lee Price.

Lee Price is an American Contemporary Figurative Realist Painter. She grew up in New York and attended art school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the Moore College of Art and Design, where her focus was in figurative art. Early in her career, Price experimented with oil painting and would later develop a pattern for painting intimate moments of women’s lives. To further develop her art skills, Price was involved in several years of private study through the New York Academy of Art. For over 20 years, her primary focus is painting women and food, as well as figures in environments. She currently lives in California.

There are two themes Price represents in her works: one being on the relationship between women and food, the other being on the discussion of compulsive behavior. She generally paints at an aerial perspective to emphasize an out of body experience and a sense that her subject is watching what she are doing, unable to stop or control the situation.

In her most well known series, Price uses herself as the subject for her paintings. Her paintings evoke a sense of privacy and confinement, as you witness her eating junk food, snacks, and meals enclosed in her bedroom or bathroom. Her paintings represent a woman in her private space, most likely her home, while at the same time representing an usual place to find someone eating. Her unusual setting might emphasize food shaming, insecurities with her body and self-image, and the personal relationship between her and food. At the core, Lee Price’s paintings asks two questions: What is it that truly nourishes us and how truthful can we be about the size of our hunger?

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