Russ Wilson
oct 22 – jan 6, 2016 Quiet, introspective images of side streets and empty windows dominate Russ Wilson’s world. “My earliest experiences of the world were through the side windows of an old Pontiac, as our family made endless trips throughout the South and beyond. Traveling through town after town, I began to envision the life that went on behind those faded facades and beyond the rolling hills. My job becomes part artist, part...
Christina Hope
nov 13 – jan 21, 2016 J. Johnson Gallery presents a survey of the celebrated underwater photographs of Christina Hope. An original member of Southlight, a collective of young Jacksonville photographers that held its first formal show in 1982, Hope was a formative presence in the Jacksonville creative community. Her exquisite studies in natural light, shadow, and the human form offer glimpses into dream-like realms inhabited by water...
The Living River
thru nov 30 A solo exhibition of paintings of the St. Johns River, this exhibit is a collection of recent pieces by landscape artist, art teacher, and environmentalist Allison Watson and is sponsored by Art Fusion as part of the Year of the River. Watson is well known for her landscapes of the wetlands, upland forests, springs, rivers and dunes of the Southeast. She has work in major collections nationally and maintains a studio in...
Three Landscape Painters: Realism to Abstraction
nov 13 – dec Henry Von Genk III, born and raised in Jacksonville, is a self-taught artist who has mastered a realistic style of landscape painting. Ellen Diamond is an artist whose harmonious interconnection of shape, color and light led her to a style that has been heralded by critics and art collectors alike. John Schuyler works in a process of layering, pouring, scraping off, and scratching into the surface of the canvas which asks...
Snapshot St. Augustine
thru oct 22 The St. Johns Cultural Council presents photographs by Kenneth M. Barrett, Jr. Raised in St. Augustine, and a University of Florida graduate in photojournalism, he is currently photographing what he refers to as ‘old Florida.’ Photographs selected for this exhibit cover the removal of historic and everyday structures. Long lost signage, historic reenactments, views of the shorelines and landscapes are captured...
Susan Michal: Flowers in Transition
oct 29 – jan 9, 2016 Susan Michal has spent over twenty years as a working photographer and is a respected leader and lecturer in the photography industry. She first picked up a camera while touring as a musician and knew she had found a new passion. She opened her photograhy studio twenty years ago, focusing her photography on families and children in the North Florida community. (current Arbus cover artist) Michal’s love for nature...
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