Gina Beavers, Cake, 2015

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.”