A sensual slice by American artist Gina Beavers, whose eye-catching, bas-relief paintings reimagine popular imagery found on social media. Her intention in spotlighting contemporary digital trends is to hold up a mirror to her viewers, to demonstrate the preoccupations that have come to define our age. “If I were a painter 200 years ago, maybe I would go out and paint the fields, but now I’m just painting what’s on my phone,” she told Holly Black in Elephant Issue 42. “This is us. In the realm of fine art, there’s this line that divides ‘high art’ and ‘low art’, and I think there isn’t enough low art in the fine art world.”
