Gina Beavers

Gina Beavers
Born1974 (age 49–50)
Athens, Greece
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of Virginia, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Brooklyn College
Known forPainting, drawing
WebsiteGina Beavers
Gina Beavers, Applebees!, acrylic on canvas, 20" x 16" x 3", 2012.

Gina Beavers (born 1974) is an American artist based in the New York area.[1] She first gained attention in the early 2010s for thickly painted, relief-like acrylic images of food, cosmetics techniques and bodybuilders appropriated from Instagram snapshots and selfies found using hashtags such as #foodporn, #sixpack and #makeuptutorial.[2][3] Her later work has continued to recombine these recurrent subjects, as well as explore memes, irreverent conflations of genres or art history and kitsch, identity, fandom and celebrity-worship.[4][5][6][7] In 2019, New York Times critic Martha Schwendener described her paintings as "canny statements on contemporary bodies, beauty and culture … [that] tackle the weirdness of immaterial images floating through the ether, building them up into something monumental, rather than dismissing them."[8]

Beavers has exhibited at institutions including MoMA PS1,[9][8] the Frans Hals Museum (Netherlands),[10] Nassau County Museum of Art and KMAC Contemporary Art Museum.[11] Her work belongs to the public collections of the Whitney Museum,[12] Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles,[13] and Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami,[14] among others. She lives and works in Orange, New Jersey.[15]

  1. ^ Museum of Modern Art. Gina Beavers, The Life I Deserve, Exhibitions, 2019. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
  2. ^ Griffin, Jonathan. "Body Work: The relief paintings of Gina Beavers," Frieze, May 2016. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
  3. ^ Shultz, Oliver. Gina Beavers, MoMA Magazine, July 18, 2019. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
  4. ^ Smith, Roberta. "A Gallery Resurgence in Chelsea," The New York Times, October 8, 2020, p. C6. Retrieved March 27, 2023.
  5. ^ Schaar, Elise. "Gina Beavers, Carl Kostyál," Artforum, February 2018. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
  6. ^ Fiske, Courtney. "Gina Beavers," Artforum, September 2014. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
  7. ^ Mizota, Sharon. "The meaning of makeup in the Instagram age: Artist Gina Beavers stripes away the gloss," Los Angeles Times, December 14, 2015. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
  8. ^ a b Schwendener Martha. "What to See in New York Art Galleries this Week: Gina Beavers," The New York Times, August 14, 2019, p. C14. Retrieved March 27, 2023.
  9. ^ Kitnick, Alex. " Greater New York, MoMA PS1," Artforum, January 2016. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
  10. ^ Frans Hals Museum. "Image Power," Exhibitions, 2020. Retrieved March 27, 2023.
  11. ^ KMAC Museum. "Food Shelter Clothing," Exhibitions, 2015. Retrieved March 27, 2023.
  12. ^ Whitney Museum of American Art. Gina Beavers, Artists. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
  13. ^ Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. "MOCA Announces 2022 Acquisitions," News. January 31, 2023. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
  14. ^ Institute of Contemporary Art Miami. Gina Beavers, Money Lips, 2018, Collection. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
  15. ^ Mellin, Haley. "Gina Beavers Explores the Complexities of an Online Self," Garage, October 9, 2020. Retrieved March 27, 2023.