Early Access: Gina Beavers, American Flag Sponge Butt Cake

EARLY ACCESS: GINA BEAVERS, AMERICAN FLAG SPONGE BUTT CAKE
Announcing a new limited-edition print benefiting When We All Vote

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GINA BEAVERS
American Flag Sponge Butt Cake, 2024
Archival Pigment Print
20 x 20 inches

Limited edition of 20
Hand-embellished, signed and numbered by the artist

Limited edition of 40 with 5AP + 1PP
Signed and numbered by the artist

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American Flag Sponge Butt Cake is a print of a realistic woman’s body revealed to be cake, in the form of an American Flag ‘sponge’ cake. This piece is from a series of surrealistic paintings of the body Beavers has made that mine the trends and attitudes of social media. Intended as a re-framing of consumption and desire within contemporary culture, the work—rendered onto a square plane that recalls Instagram posts—evokes both the hypersexualized images and food porn trends that pervade social media. In Gina Beavers’ own words, “I am trying to make paintings that embody the anxieties, pieties, shamelessness, and vulnerabilities of our lives online. Can bodies, or a painting of a body, represent these interior states?” For the hand-embellished prints in this limited edition series, the artist has arranged a set of stickers that address themes of voting and democracy which are adhered in various places on the print.

Gina Beavers holding her print, American Flag Sponge Butt Cake. Image courtesy of Javier Romero.

This marks ART FOR CHANGE’s second partnership with When We All Vote, a non-profit organization whose mission is to increase participation in every election and to close the race and age voting gap. In conjunction with the online exhibition, ART FOR CHANGE will donate five percent of the unframed purchase price of sales through December 1st, with a $10,000 minimum commitment, to support When We All Vote’s mission to increase voter participation in this crucial election year.

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Gina Beavers signing her print, American Flag Sponge Butt Cake. Image courtesy of Javier Romero.

Of ART FOR CHANGE’s initiative of supporting When We All Vote, Fernandez notes, “With the amount of voter suppression that occurs today, having a dedicated program that can provide resources, information, and acknowledgment of voter’s rights is crucial. Everyone’s voice is important, and deserves the opportunity to be heard.”

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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Gina Beavers creates paintings and installations inspired by photos culled from the internet and social media. Rendered in high acrylic relief, her works have taken body painting, food snapshots, makeup tutorials, memes, and bodybuilder selfies as points of departure.

Born in Athens, Greece and currently based in Orange, NJ, the artist has presented solo exhibitions at venues that include MoMA PS1, New York, NY; Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY; Carl Kostyál, Stockholm, Sweden, and London, United Kingdom; Michael Benevento, Los Angeles, CA; and Various Small Fires, Seoul, Korea. Additionally, Beavers’s works are included in the esteemed collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL; Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; among others.

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Stay tuned for more print launches coming every Tuesday until Election day on November 5th!

ART FOR CHANGE is thrilled to support When We All Vote through our second collaboration with the organization. Jordan Kasey: October 15th Danielle Orchard: October 22nd Julia Jo: October 29th Kenny Rivero: November 5th

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