Lee price

Artist Lee Price explores the relationship between women, shame, and food in her painting series.

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Lee Price Blueberry Pancakes Oil on Linen 60" x 28"

Lee Price's poignant realist paintings of self-gratification thrust the viewer into private moments of indulgence. Painted from a bird's eye view, the self-portraits depict the artist unabashedly consuming large quantities of junk food while lying supine in her bed or lounging in the bath. These works inevitably evoke the idea of guilty pleasure and bring up the complicated emotions at play in conversation surrounding body image and American women's relationship to food. Take a look at some…

Lee Price creates photorealistic oil paintings that are mostly self-portraits of herself, binging on junk food. Her work explores body image, feminism, and our cultural relationship to food. Awards and grants:2007 George Sugarman Foundation Grant, 2005 Elmira Regional Art Society Award, Regional 2005, Arnot Art Museum 2004 Best Work in Oil, Regional 2004, Arnot Art Museum. Education: Moore College of Art Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting; 1990 Cum Laude.

Lee Price creates realistic oil paintings, that show women and food in their intimate and private settings. The pictures are self-portraits of her, getting excessive with food that is considered indulgent, forbidden, or comforting. Her works addresses the intersections of food with body image, addiction, and unabating desire. Lee Price states: ‘In this society, there’s […]

Meet Beacon artist Lee Price, one of our people to watch in 2012

Lee Price paints uncannily realistic paintings around the subject of food and her paintings always have a peculiar angle of view. Lee gradu...

Lee Price