#ginabeavers

She creates paintings and installations from photos culled from the Internet and social media and rendered in high Acrylic relief. Series include paintings based on the creative realms of body painting, social media user's photos of their meals, make-up tutorials, memes, and body builder selfies. 

Gina Beavers: In her visceral, vexing, often grotesque paintings, New York–based artist Gina Beavers (American, b. 1974) transforms digital images appropriated from social media and the Internet into thickly layered compositions that border on sculpture.  Across a recurring repertoire of subject matter―from photos hashtagged #FoodPorn to step-by-step cosmetics tutorials―Beavers’s work offers uncanny and often unsettling visions of our digitally mediated lives. This exhibition is a part of Summer at MoMA PS1 and Spring 2019.

The Life I Deserve opens with a selection of “food porn” paintings, from slabs of raw meat to a rainbow-colored soft serve cone, which allude both directly and indirectly to the body, pointing both to literal and virtual modes of consumption and desire. A small central gallery grapples with consumer culture in a different way: each of the works exhibit the artist’s interest in the history of painting as filtered through mashups of art and kitsch: fingernails painted with reproductions of art-historical masterworks like the Mona Lisa and Van Gogh's Starry Night rendered in bacon. The exhibition concludes with a gallery focused on Beavers’s representation of the human body, pointing to the often troubling politics of selfhood in the emotional and social spaces of the Internet.

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The toxicity of #socialmedia in #GinaBeavers' sculptural #painting @gina_beavers #arte #art #pittura #cultureisfreedom #artisfreedom #curiositykilledtheblogger #artblogging #photooftheday #artaddict #artistsoninstagram #amazing #artwork #instacool #instaart #followart #artlover #contemporaryart #artecontemporanea #artmuseum #artcurator #artwatchers #artcollectors #artdealer #arthistory #bocca #mouth https://www.instagram.com/p/CGZP3OWgear/?igshid=1s9zyk4u5am0d

We LOVE COLOR looks like a cooling #popsicle 👅 😜😋 #PrettyInPink 💕 😝 Lynda Benglis @marianneboeskygallery ‘Painting/Sculpture’ #SummerExhibition which includes works by Gina Beavers, Jennifer Bartlett, Lynda Benglis, Sheila Hicks, Donald Moffett, Howardena Pindell, and Frank Stella. #ginabeavers #frankstella #jenniferbartlett #howardenapindell #sheilahicks #donaldmoffett #lyndabenglis #paintingsculpture #marianneboeskygallery #artlovers #artlife #artcollectors #artadvisors #artcurators #artadvisory #DestineeRoss @desti.knee & #joakimvonditmar #artadvisor #artcurator #blackgirlmagic #artmuse #representation #representationmatters #femaleartist #femaleartists #chelseaartwalk #chelseagallery #contemporaryart (at Marianne Boesky Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzyUYcJFk_i/?igshid=19zk65859eld8

I’m obsessed with this piece by Gina Beavers. CAKE / 2015 / @exhibitiona / #bought #artcollector #drool #ginabeavers (at Gonzales, Louisiana)