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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?

Elizabeth Berdann


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

While looking for an artist to write about for this assignment I went on to the Brooklyn Museum website database of feminist art. While looking through the database I came across Elizabeth Berdann, a feminist artist who works with a lot of seemingly sexual imagery and conceptual art that I found very interesting. When I googled Berdann I did find information about her on the internet but I was not able to find any Wikipedia articles of this artist. By not having an article on Berdann we see the limitation of knowledge on the basis of sex and/or gender. Knowledge on feminist and female artists is severely limited, especially feminist artists who are also women, considering art by men is more easily accessible, as is information on it. Berdann is not an extremely well known artist but she does have multiple pieces which have garnered attention from many sources. While she has not gotten much far spread exposure she is known to a certain degree in the feminist art world and her art is worth much more attention. While looking into Berdann I was surprised to find that Berdann has a connection to Hannah Wilke, a well-known feminist artist who does in fact have a Wikipedia page, on this page, however, there is no mention of Berdann or their relationship.


 * 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.)

Elizabeth Berdann is an Allentown, PA born painter and multimedia visual artist. Born in 1956, the daughter of one of five sisters and granddaughter of a victim of the pre Roe v. Wade era, her grandmother died of a self-administered abortion and Berdann credits this for not only her family’s strong ideals of gender equality but also her own feminist views. One of Berdann’s first brushes with feminist art came in January of 1979. Berdann assisted at the Smith College Museum’s “Contemporary Women in the Visual Arts” panel and exhibit. When working there she met Hannah Wilke, who allowed Berdann to assist her with her gum sculpture by chewing three packs of gum and watching as Wilke put the piece together. Identifying as a Third Wave feminist Berdann looked at the last generation’s tactics as being unreasonably combative and so she took on a much humorous approach on her feminist views as well as her art. Berdann’s art often uses body imagery in compelling ways but her specialty is miniature portraits, forcing Berdann to pay extreme attention to detail in her art, so much detail that her miniature paintings often take up to 20 hours. Berdann has been educated at many institutions, including:  Parson’s, Smith College, and Ecole des Beaux Arts. After high school, where she won a Regional Certificate of Merit in 1972, Berdann moved to New York, where she resides today, continuing to produce art in SOHO.
 * List the reliable sources that could be used to improve this gap. (You can use the Cite tool from the editing toolbar above to input and format your sources.)


 * http://www.haaedu.org/elizabeth-berdann
 * http://blog.artandwriting.org/2012/03/14/meet-elizabeth-berdann-scholastic-awards-alum-from-the-1970s/#more-3285
 * http://dailyserving.com/2010/04/elizabeth-berdann/
 * https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/feminist_art_base/elizabeth-berdann
 * http://elizabethberdann.com/about/statement/