Hot Chocolate: Lee Price

Lee Price - an American artist from New York, who is engaged in figurative painting and creates a gentle work in pastel colors, aimed at exploring aspects of female nature.
In his works, Lee tries to convey the inherent need for women to take care of others before taking care of themselves.

“I mainly do self portraits. In my work I try to show some confusion. Show the state when reality becomes too uncomfortable for us and what we do with it. Sometimes these actions throw us into even greater discomfort, but I try not to concentrate only on the negative aspect, but also to show the positive side of this escape ... but to a greater degree its absurdity. ”
Many people ask: why in the pictures almost always the action takes place on the bed or in the bathroom? Because, it is these places are a familiar place of solitude for food.
After all, many women brought up by their parents, and then by society, take care first of all about others, then about themselves. Therefore, they have to suppress many of their desires, their appetite, and only then, in secret from everyone, to indulge their weaknesses. Of course, this can be applied not only to food, to many weaknesses, in general, of any person.
The intimacy of the setting emphasizes the secrecy of compulsive behavior, where the environment places emphasis on the absurdity of the situation.
Lee's paintings show us that we endow food with qualities not inherent in it, people seek solace in improper sources, trying to convince themselves that temporary relief received by a person will be infinitely long and will help to avoid unpleasant feelings. In fact, it turns out that a person prolongs and intensifies his sufferings.
In most of the works in the paintings there are no faces of women - this technique is used by the artist to show the shamefulness of such actions.
About his career as an artist, Lee says: “My thoughts motivate me to be creative. I think this is the essence of art. If you have something to say, you must find a way to say it and you just have to SAY. And I have thoughts which personally seem very important to me. But more importantly, I feel a return and importance of this for others. Art is a way to connect with people. "
We invite you to get acquainted with the wonderful works of the artist.