Realistic America

Lee Price, an American oil painter, creates photorealistic paintings that are mostly self-portraits of herself, binging on junk food. In the new print issue of Bust magazine, Price talks about how her work explores body image, feminism, and America's cultural relationship to food. 

Each of these works are sad in context yet beautiful as Price creates such an unbelievably realistic painting that at first glance, I was sure was a photo.

With a culture so obsessed with body image mirrored with an ever-growing obesity issue and food being used for comfort rather than necessity, these paintings really do seem to capture the American reality.

For the rest of her work, go to her website.