San Marco
San Marco occupies a peninsula formed by the St. Johns River bend south of downtown, and its 1920s Italian Renaissance–inspired commercial square has remained Jacksonville's most intact historic retail district. The mural program along the streets radiating from San Marco Square tends toward classical and figurative work that respects the Mediterranean Revival architecture — artists working here face a different brief than those working in the industrial spaces of Springfield or the gritty blocks of Five Points.
Featured Artists
All artists →Conor Harrington
"Venice of the South" brings Harrington's 17th-century figuration to the context of San Marco's Italian Renaissance architecture — a Venetian nobleman dissolves into the gold leaf and gestural abstraction of Harrington's signature style, the figure's period dress rhyming with the Mediterranean Revival buildings that surround the square.
HUSH
"San Marco Square" places one of HUSH's geisha figures in dialogue with the architectural symmetry of San Marco's central fountain and its flanking buildings — the figure's woodblock-style rendering echoing the flat planes of the Mediterranean-tiled surfaces while dissolving into diamond-grid geometry at the edges.
DAAS
"River Bend" documents the view south from San Marco's riverside — the long arc of the St. Johns as it curves toward the Commodore Point bridges — in DAAS's loose atmospheric technique, the river's dark tannin water catching the morning light that San Marco residents see from their front porches.