St. Armands Circle
St. Armands Circle sits on Lido Key, connected to the mainland and Longboat Key by a series of causeways, and its circular shopping district was designed by John Ringling himself in the 1920s as a luxury commercial hub. The mural program here is among the most aesthetically ambitious in Southwest Florida, with commissions placed along the side streets off the Circle where the scale of mixed-use buildings allows for serious outdoor work visible from the beach approaches.
Featured Artists
All artists →Wyland
"Lido Reef" documents the nearshore reef ecosystems of Lido Key — the snook, redfish, and tarpon that patrol the passes between the barrier islands — in Wyland's underwater naturalist style, the Gulf water rendered with the specific light quality of Sarasota's shallow basin where the seafloor is visible in fathoms of turquoise.
Conor Harrington
"Ringling's Dream" stages a collision between Ringling-era circus performers in period dress and Harrington's signature gestural abstraction — the big-top impresario's vision for Sarasota as a Gulf Coast cultural capital rendered through the lens of 17th-century portraiture dissolving into the color fields and drips of abstraction.
DAAS
"Gulf Passage" captures the moment of Gulf sunset from the Lido Key beach — the specific quality of light as the sun drops behind the horizon at the latitude of 27 degrees north — in DAAS's loose atmospheric technique, with the sailboats and kayakers of St. Armands' recreational waterfront visible as soft shapes in the glare.