River Street
River Street runs along the Savannah River at the base of the historic bluff, its nine blocks of antebellum cotton warehouses converted into shops, restaurants, and bars that face the Talmadge Bridge and the container ships heading to the Port of Savannah — one of the East Coast's busiest deepwater ports. The mural program along River Street and the Factor's Walk lanes that connect it to Bay Street responds to the scale of the industrial riverfront, with pieces that match the shipping containers passing overhead in sheer visual weight.
Featured Artists
All artists →POSE
"Port of Savannah" takes the container port as subject — the largest port on the East Coast by acreage, visible across the river from the River Street warehouses — rendering the stacked containers in POSE's abstract color-field vocabulary, with the blues and ochres of the port's industrial landscape becoming a composition in pure form and scale.
Conor Harrington
"Cotton Factor" stages a confrontation between the cotton factors who controlled Savannah's antebellum economy and the enslaved workers whose labor produced the wealth — a Harrington collision of 17th-century European portraiture and gestural abstraction that refuses to separate the river's architectural beauty from the economic system that built it.
DAAS
"Savannah River" captures the tidal Savannah River at dawn — the brown water carrying the tannin of the Piedmont's blackwater tributaries, the pelicans and egrets working the exposed mudflats at low tide, the container ships beginning their outbound journey to the Atlantic — in DAAS's atmospheric loose technique, a work that reads best in the early morning light.