LEEPRICE
"No one gets excessive with carrots."
Lee Price has been painting women and food for more than twenty years. Her works are fiercely realistic with a touch of absurdity. She fell into this unique style after she composed a scene that was unsuccessful. "At that time, I was working from photographs. I had set up a scene to shoot, a sort of Alice in Wonderland thing. In the foreground, a table was set for what would seem to be a tea party and in the background a figure was sleeping in a chair. It wasn’t working. I had purchased insane amounts of desserts and props for this shoot and I didn’t want to waste them. So I threw an antique tablecloth down on the floor, placed all the deserts on top of it, lay down in the middle of the food and had a friend get on a ladder and photograph it. I still didn’t quite understand it, but I knew I had something that inspired me. It took a while to grasp the significance of everything."
These inspirational self-portraits created a theme, which she continued throughout her series 'Full'. The message that Price conveys through her artworks is the loss of control that women can have with food. She describes her food choices as "forbidden or comforting".
Price's elevated perspective interprets the character's guilty conscience. This places the viewer in her postion, watching her eat her worries away with the inability to stop eating. The unusual environments are "private spaces, spaces of solitude, and unusual places to find someone eating."
Paintings by Lee Price
Images credited to leepricestudio.com
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