This artist’s work always gets me. Not just because it’s incredibly gorgeous and highly skilled, it is. But each piece is filled with so much emotion and narrative, it’s like a beautiful punch in the gut. I first featured the paintings ( that’s right, paintings!! ) of Lee Price way back in January 2012 while I was writing Artist Watch posts for Escape Into Life. The work effected me so much that it took another three months before I could write a full feature for the blog.
These new pieces are similar to Price’s older work, in that we still see isolated women in the bed or bath, but the work has evolved to either a more positive or more sinister perspective, depending on your interpretation. We still seem to see a woman in struggle, yet these seem much more subversive. Instead of a woman surrounded by the detritus of a cupcake binge, instead, we’re confronted with women enveloped by artificial representations of treats or even more telling, an empty bowl.
We have such a powerful relationship with the food and drink we consume. It literally has the power to nourish or destroy. And in the world of fast, highly processed food and GMOs, the choice of what we eat has never seemed more fraught with danger.
To see more of Lee Price‘s work, please visit her website.
All images via the artist’s website.
