Burnaway is excited to continue our Artist Editions, short runs of art objects created by artists from the South and the Caribbean and intended for a broad scope of discerning collectors.
For our fourth Artist Edition, Marlos E’van collaborated with Burnaway to create Sweet Lilly-Marie, a tee shirt inspired by a character in La Strada, one of E’van’s favorite films. Playing out in E’van’s practice of visual story-telling, Lilly-Marie represents family, innocence, adventure, love, triumph, and coming of age. Originally based on the character Gelsomina and a family member of E’van, Lilly-Marie first appeared in their painting “Zampo and Lilly-Marie on the road”; in this iteration, she is finding joy and peaceful moments during chaotic times.
Preorders for Sweet Lilly-Marie are open in our shop through April 10. Tee shirts will be hand-printed in Nashville and shipped late April.
About Marlos E’van
Marlos E’van (b.MISSISSIPPI) interweaves painting, performance, and filmmaking, creating worlds in which their art recollects black histories: joy, pain, celebration, sorrow, and complex emotions from reenacted scenes of American histories. Marlos’ work is included in multiple collections both In and Out of the South.
Learn more about Marlos E’van and their work in their interview with Justin Chance.
