Riverside
Riverside is Jacksonville's oldest and most architecturally distinguished neighborhood, a grid of late-Victorian and Craftsman homes along the St. Johns River that has sustained an arts presence since the 1970s. Five Points, the neighborhood's commercial heart, anchors a concentration of galleries, record stores, and independent restaurants whose building facades have become the primary canvases for Jacksonville's mural program. The proximity to the river gives the district's outdoor art a naturally maritime and ecological orientation.
Featured Artists
All artists →DAAS
"St. Johns Light" renders the St. Johns River at the Riverside bend — one of the most dramatic urban waterfront moments in Florida, where the river curves past Riverside's bluff and the downtown skyline appears across the water — in DAAS's atmospheric loose technique, the river's brown-tannin water rendered with the specific quality of North Florida's blackwater rivers.
Nychos
"Five Points" applies Nychos's cross-section anatomy to the American alligator in the context of the St. Johns River — the apex predator that lives in Jacksonville's urban watershed, visible from the Riverside banks — exposing the animal's internal architecture against a backdrop of the five-road intersection that gives the neighborhood its name.
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
"Riverside Roots" documents the multi-generational Black residents of Riverside who built and sustained the neighborhood's community life through decades of disinvestment — six portrait subjects rendered in Fazlalizadeh's clear monochrome line against a warm amber field, asserting the neighborhood's full history against a backdrop of ongoing gentrification.