Gina Beavers

Session 4: August 7 - August 13, 2022

Gina Beavers, born in Athens, Greece, creates paintings and installations inspired by photos culled from the internet and social media,rendered in high acrylic relief. Her series have included paintings that are based on body painting, social media snapshots of food, make-up tutorials, memes, and bodybuilder selfies. Her work has been presented in solo exhibitions around the word and is included in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum, the ICA Miami, and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. She has had two recent solo museum exhibitions: in 2019 at MoMA PS1 and in 2021 at the Neuer Essener Kunstervein. Beavers holds a BA in Studio Art and Anthropology from the University of Virginia (1996), an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2000), and an MS in Education from Brooklyn College (2005). She currently lives and works in Orange, New Jersey. 

Gina Beavers, Painting Georgia O'Keefe, Rothko and Pink Mondrian on my lips, 2021, Acrylic and foam on linen on panel, 71 7/8 x 73 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches, Courtesy of the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen. Photo credit: Lance Brewer