Gina Beavers, American Flag Sponge Butt Cake, 2024; Limited Edition Print
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.
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 Beavers’s 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
American Flag Sponge Butt Cake, 2024
20 x 20 inches
Archival Pigment Print
Limited edition of 20
Hand-embellished, signed and numbered by the artist on verso
Limited edition of 40 with 5AP + 1PP
Signed and numbered by the artist on verso
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