Las Olas
Las Olas Boulevard is Fort Lauderdale's answer to Worth Avenue — a mile of upscale galleries, restaurants, and boutiques stretching from downtown to the beach. The mural program here has attracted artists who can work at the scale and ambition level that the boulevard's high-rent tenants expect, producing some of the most polished outdoor art in South Florida. The side streets off Las Olas host the more experimental work.
Featured Artists
All artists →HUSH
"Atlantic Dream" positions a geisha figure against an abstracted Atlantic seascape, the waves rendered in flat woodblock style while the figure dissolves into diamond-grid geometry — HUSH's signature collision of Eastern visual traditions and the upscale setting of Las Olas.
DAAS
"Intracoastal Light" captures the specific quality of afternoon light on Fort Lauderdale's Intracoastal Waterway — the way the subtropical sun bounces off the water surface and onto the undersides of the drawbridges — in DAAS's loose, atmospheric technique that makes the wall appear to breathe with the movement of water.
Conor Harrington
"Las Olas Gold" brings Harrington's 17th-century-collision-with-abstraction approach to the boulevard's upscale context — a full-scale figure in Dutch Golden Age dress dissolving into the gold leaf and ochre drips of a gesture painting that references both Rembrandt and Fort Lauderdale's status as a winter playground for those with Dutch-Golden-Age levels of money.