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Painting by Gina Beavers, American Flag Sponge Butt Cake (acrylic on linen on panel, 48" x 48" x 4", 2020). The image illustrates a key later body of work by Gina Beavers in the late 2010s and 2020s when she began to integrate new subjects such as memes, sports, conflations of art history and kitsch, identity, fandom and celebrity-worship into recurrent preoccupations with food, the body and makeup techniques. They explore a wide range of formats—gridded, sculptural paintings, four-sided standing works, pastel drawings—while continuing to engage the power of "high" and "low" cultural images and their effects on selfhood. This work, from her exhibition, "World War Me" (2020) demonstrates her work's mash-up approach to genres and subjects, combining kitsch, a body reference and food in one image. This body of work and individual piece were publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions and discussed by critics in major art journals and daily press publications.

Artist Gina Beavers. Copyright held by the artist.

Gina Beavers

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key later body of work by Gina Beavers in the latter 2010s and 2020s: her sculptural acrylic paintings that have introduced and combined new subjects such as memes, sports, conflations of art history and kitsch, identity, fandom and celebrity-worship with her recurrent subjects of food, the body and makeup techniques. Critics have suggested that this work examined identity and the ubiquitous presence of the female form through the lens of a fractured social-media self-consciousness craving recognition and popularity. The paintings have ranged from large-scale reliefs of papier-mâché-formed paintboxes and sports balls—sometimes interposed with faces—carnivalesque instructional compositions for dressing up as cartoon characters, four-sided square works on plinth-like cubes, and images faces and torsos flaunting art-historical and consumer culture motifs, among others. Because the article is about an artist and her work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to understand this later direction, which has brought Beavers continuing recognition through exhibitions, coverage by major critics and publications. Beavers's work of this type and this series is discussed in the article and by critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Gina Beavers, and the work no longer is viewable, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

The image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original due to its low resolution and the general workings of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.