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
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