When it comes to the world's old, beautiful legacy cities, where is the line between the culture being lived and the culture being sold, and how has it affected the past 500 years up to today?
This year in 2026 I’m using the Mona Lisa to paint a delicate global meltdown spanning the past 500 years since the peak of Humanism in Firenze to the rivers of the Tropical South USA.
24”x18” Acrylic on canvas by Eva Avenue
Prismacolor collab by Eva Avenue and Stacey Holder
Mona Lisa With An Ermine 24”x18” Acrylic on canvas by Eva Avenue
A 24-page illustrated research piece about the life and times of Mona Lisa from then till now. This publication accompanies a body of paintings exhibited as A Nonfiction Fever Dream: Mona Lisa Goes South. All work hand-drawn by Eva Avenue on an airplane or in a cafe/bar in Savannah or on the 5th floor of the Art Students League of New York. Two works are 4-hand collaborations with Stacey Holder.
In Portugal, I’ve been practicing the Coimbra guitar and developing a hand-cut silhouette animation practice. I tell the snail that he is not slow, it is the world that has sped up.