Just finished this for Adam Faucett's Show with William Blackart and Sam Miller (and Matt Badger on drums!) at the Rabbit Box on Pike Street in Seattle. Will update with a vlog about that soon. I don't know if this is what the final text will look like, but the second image shows it without that Photoshop text layer - just pure colored pencil and paper.
I'm a Portuguese-American artist living in Brooklyn. I make work about value systems and bodies of power and influence; the fallout since the time of Mona Lisa and the nocturnal world of plants.
I'm giving up my job on July 23 to paint full time.
Eva's Atelier Life
I'm going to paint, practice the Coimbra guitar, make Youtube vlogs, write essays, eat hot chip and lie.
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I have a Youtube channel called The World-Famous Art Studio Dispatch & I've been making videos again ever since I went part-time in June. I think my 5-year hiatus marinated my video editing skills? These are really fun to make, please watch 🎬
And I co-host a podcast called I Guess We Can't Have A Podcast. We were posting around once a week for 18 months but we're currently updating every few months while we focus on other things for awhile.
But the main reason I have this website? I want to talk about my paintings and the shows, the sales, and saving the world.
SHOW NOTES - these aren't fully edited but I wanted to get them up there as I'm thinking through what this the artifacts of this upcoming Savannah art exhibit is telling me.A Nonfiction Fever Dream | Mona Lisa Goes SouthThe Earth is more important than these nonsense wars. I use the Mona Lisa to paint a delicate global meltdown, as if everything we make and preserve won’t eventually change or disappear, while our systems elaborate ways of helping us live daily with impermanence. As a global society, we create museums to preserve things, archives to resist forgetting, monuments to resist disappearance, religions to give death a larger meaning so that we may not feel discouraged and keep going, careers and institutions to give time structure, money feel manageable, stories and images to make existence feel continuous. And then, eventually, all of it is subject to the same natural forces as all that came before it.
The Mona Lisa is preserved, reproduced, and set up to receive 20,000 visitors a day, but the actual person depicted is long gone. As centuries pass, the horrors persist, but so do we. What does it mean to keep making meaning around an image that has already outlived its original meaning? What is the meaning of meaning? We keep trying to make things last when we know nothing lasts, but these questions are the engines of our very reality.
We’ve built entire civilizations around knowing something we can never emotionally accept. In our minds we can accept that life is fleeting, but knowledge doesn't seem to make the experience less shocking. Every generation has to discover impermanence for itself.