Our Mission
About / Artist Submissions Florida Mining has a mission to present emerging to mid career artists who are thought provoking and fresh with a mix of medium and perspective. Through this website we at Florida Mining hope to promote the artists who grace our gallery through online access to images of their paintings a biography/artist statement ...
JUNE–ERIC GILLYARD
Our ongoing public art project with Clear Channel of Jacksonville continues this month with works by talented local artist, Eric Gillyard. Digital billboards throughout the city will display Gillyard’s work for the month of June, momentarily transforming space typically used for commerce into artworks. The Highway Gallery began in 2012 as a special juried exhibit, ...
May — CHRISTIE THOMPSON HOLECHEK
May 1 – 31, 2013 digital billboards throughout the city will continue to display this rotating public art project along with advertising. The Highway Gallery – a city wide public art campaign – will feature imagery by local artist CHRISTIE THOMPSON HOLECHEK, momentarily transforming space typically used for commerce. Artist Statement Maps are visual indicators ...
The 2nd Annual exhibition and Call to Artists for THE HIGHWAY GALLERY
THE HIGHWAY GALLERY 2nd Annual Call to Artists: a juried exhibition featuring 12 artists Opening Reception: August 2,2013 On view until September 31,2013 on Clear Channel Outdoor digital billboards throughout Jacksonville On view at Harbinger’s Florida Mining Gallery Florida Mining, Harbinger and Clearly Jacksonville announce The 2nd Annual exhibition and Call to Artists for THE ...
POST: An exhibition featuring Swoon and MILAGROS
Harbinger and Florida Mining Gallery are pleased to announce POST, an exhibition featuring street artist Swoon and the art collaborative MILAGROS. Swoon is highly regarded and internationally known for her collaborative and community activist based works. “Alden,” over six feet tall, is one of the works featured in the exhibition and is of Swoon’s grandfather, ...
April — JASON FORT
April 1 through 30, 2013 digital billboards throughout the city will continue to display this rotating public art project along with advertising. The Highway Gallery – a city wide public art campaign – will feature imagery by local artist JASON FORT, momentarily transforming space typically used for commerce. Jason Fort: Rorschach 10 will be seen ...
Geoff Mitchell: selections from Chaos at the Confessional Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art, Biloxi, MS
Florida Mining Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of three large format triptych works by GEOFF MITCHELL (b. 1971 Gulfport, MS; lives and works in Los Angeles) from his recent exhibition at the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art which closed in November 2012. Mitchell received a BFA in Painting from Western Michigan University and an ...
March — CAMERON McNALL
CAMERON McNALL The Highway Gallery: SALE, a campaign to sell itself, which is nothing. March, 2013 Cameron McNall is creating a new project for The Highway Gallery called SALE that explores the visual mechanisms underlying how text and images are used to create the different “voices” of outdoor advertising, with a particular focus on the ...
Manifest: Select Photographs
Manifest: Select Photographs Opening Reception Thursday, January 24, 2013 6:00 — 9:00pm Florida Mining Gallery and Harbinger are delighted to announce the upcoming exhibition Manifest: Select Photographs Thursday, January 24, 2013. This reception is the kick-off party for PHOTOJAX 2013, a celebration of photography. Artists include Bobby Davidson, Jessica Yatrofsky, Chang Kyun Kim, Allen Frame, ...
January 15 — February 28, 2013 TONY RODRIGUES
Clear Channel Outdoor is collaborating with Florida Mining Gallery and Harbinger to bring public art to Jacksonville. Beginning January 15, 2013 digital billboards throughout the city will continue to display art along with advertising. The Highway Gallery – a city wide public art campaign – will feature work by Jacksonville artist TONY RODRIGUES, momentarily transforming ...
Bobby Davidson
Artists Bobby Davidson received his MFA from Parsons the New School for Design 2010. His interdisciplinary practice deals with humor, photographic discourse, and consumer culture. Davidson’s work as been exhibited with The Center for Photography at Woodstock, The Humble Arts Foundation, The Philadelphia Photo Arts Center and the Aperture Foundation. He currently resides in Brooklyn, ...
Zach Fitchner
Artists Zach Fitchner is a printmaking artist best known for his woodcut prints. Born on September 17,1987, he split his growing up between Sugar Hill, Georgia and Lakeland, Florida where he spent his time playing in creeks and roaming the streets as a rowdy juvenile. His art career began when he drew an eagle for ...
Allen Frame
Artists Born in Mississippi in 1951 and graduated from Harvard University in 1974. Allen Frame lives in New York where he teaches photography at the School of Visual Arts, Pratt Institute, and the International Center of Photography. He has also taught photography workshops in Mexico and Russia. His book Detour, a compilation of his photographs over ...
Trenton Doyle Hancock
Artists Trenton Doyle Hancock was born in 1974 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Raised in Paris, Texas, Hancock earned his BFA from Texas A&M University, Commerce, and his MFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Philadelphia. Hancock’s prints, drawings, and collaged-felt paintings work together to tell the story of the Mounds—a group of ...
Maggie Hasbrouck
Artists A working artist for nearly 20 years, Maggie Hasbrouck’s dreamlike paintings are recognized for her signature meditative style and for the medium that she helped bring to the forefront of the contemporary American Art scene; “Photoencaustic ” is a technique she developed and perfected over the last 18 years that employs both her photographic ...
Casey James
Artists Casey James (born January 16th, 1984) is an American artist and Designer. Born in Anaheim California to mother Mindy and Father Frances is of Irish and Egyptian descent. In 1990 Casey moved from Los Angeles to Las Vegas and stayed in the state of Nevada until 2008 where he moved from Reno Nevada to ...
Chang Kyun Kim
Artists Kim was born in South Korea. He holds an MFA in Photography from Parsons the New School for Design, New York City, U.S, and an MS in International Studies and a BA in Chinese Literature from Chung-ang University, Seoul, South Korea. Kim is interested in re-visualizing urban landscapes that metaphorically reveal our current time. ...
Kaoru Mansour
Artists Kaoru Mansour is a native of Japan working as a painter in Los Angeles. Her work combines black-and-white photographic transfers, paint, and embossed designs. She uses black lines to connect the various elements into a cohesive composition. In 1995, Mansour collaborated with the renowned soprano Dame Kiri Te Kanawa to create a painting depicting ...
Geoff Mitchell
Artists Los Angeles based multidisciplinary artist Geoff Mitchell creates imagery with a nod towards dream like sequences that seduce the viewer inviting reflection towards the past while imagining the future. His intricately crafted works on wood panel include individual components that form rich compositions layered and woven utilizing multiple media and deliberate technique. The end ...
Ibrahim Miranda
Artists Ibrahim Miranda is a young Cuban artist who has gained international attention for his prints and paintings. A native of Pinar del Rio, he attended the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana; shortly after graduation he began to exhibit in Cuba, Mexico, Argentina, Spain and the United States. Miranda frequently bases his work on ...
Ke Francis
Artists Ke Francis joined the UCF faculty in 1996 and also serves as Chair of the Art Department. Mr. Francis has an enviable international reputation, based on his aggressive multimedia productions as a printmaker, painter, ceramicist, bookmaker, installation artist and writer. In 1979, in Tupelo, Mississippi, Mr. Francis founded Hoopsnake Press, which has published 75 ...
Ed Ruscha
Artists Born in 1937 in Omaha, Nebraska, and was raised in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, where his family moved in 1941. At the age of 19, he moved to LosAngeles to attend Chouinard Art Institute, several years later he had his first solo exhibition at the Ferus Gallery. In 1973, Ruscha began showing his work with ...
Keith Sonnier
Artists Keith Sonnier, a minimalist, performance, video and light artist, was born in Mamou, Louisiana, in 1941. He lived in Paris, France for several years, before coming to New York City in 1966, where he now resides. He became known in the late-1960s for his neon sculptures. He has taught at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, ...
John Waters
Artists John Waters is a filmmaker, author and photographer, that takes inspiration from all areas in the spectrum from “low” to “high” art. He has been influenced by such figures as: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Federico Fellini, and Ingmar Bergman. Born April 22, 1946 in Baltimore, Maryland. He is currently based in Baltimore ...
Emma Wilcox
Artists Emma Wilcox is a photographer concerned with environmental justice, land usage, eminent domain, and the role of individual memory in the creation of local history. Solo exhibitions: Where it Falls, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA and William Patterson University Galleries, Wayne, NJ, 2012, Emma Wilcox, 2010 at Gitterman Gallery, New York, NY, Salvage Rights, ...
Ibrahim Miranda-Public collections
Public collections National Museum. Palacio de Bellas Artes. Havana. Cuba. MoMA. Museum of Modern Art. New York. USA. Thyssen – Bornemisza Contemporary Art Foundation. Anit. Austria. Gravura Museum. Curitiba. Brasil. Van Reekum Museum. Appeldorn. Holanda. Xylography`s Museum. Buenos Aires. Argentina. ASU. Arizona State University Museum of Arts. Tempe. Arizona. USA. Fort Lauderdale`s Museum. Fort Lauderdale. Florida. USA. ...
Ke Francis: Biloxi to Babylon
Opening Reception Friday, October 19, 7pm On view through December 6th 2012 Mr. Francis is a professor of art and Chair of the Fine Art Department at Central Florida State University, he also writes and illustrates his own artist’s books which are then published through Hoopsnake Press, a limited-edition press which he founded ...
PROOF: Contemporary Prints
PROOF : Contemporary Prints Opening and Celebration Wednesday, December 12, 2012 (12-12-12) 7 — 9pm We are delighted to announce our upcoming exhibition PROOF: Contemporary Prints which opens on the date of the Harbinger 50th Anniversary celebration, 12-12-12, and features many highly recognized artists and collectible works. Artists include Jim Campbell, Casey James, Zach Fitchner, Iva ...
October, 2012 JIM DRAPER
For a third consecutive month, Clear Channel Outdoor is collaborating with Florida Mining Gallery to bring public art to Jacksonville. Throughout the month of October, 2012 digital billboards throughout the city will display art along with advertising. The HIGHWAY GALLERY- a city wide public art campaign – features work by Jacksonville artist JIM DRAPER, momentarily transforming ...
September, 2012 LILY KUONEN
For a second consecutive month, Clear Channel Outdoor is collaborating with Florida Mining Gallery to bring public art to Jacksonville. Throughout the month of September, digital billboards throughout the city will display art along with advertising. The Highway Gallery – a city wide public art campaign – features work by Jacksonville artist LILY KUONEN, once ...
Betsy Cain
Artists Betsy Cain was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and grew up in Fairfield, Alabama, the steel mill city near Birmingham. She received both her BFA and MFA from The University of Alabama, but did formative undergraduate work at Auburn University and Instituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. She worked in Alabama and Georgia’s Artist ...
Betsy Cain: Selections
September 7 through October 31 2012 Opening reception: Friday, September 7, 7 PM Florida Mining Gallery is pleased to present the work of artist Betsy Cain, with an opening reception on Friday, September 7th and continuing through October 31. Abstraction and figuration combine with the energetic application of fluid oil paint to canvas, ...
Artist Submissions
About / Our Mission TO BE CONSIDERED FOR AN EXHIBITION Please send 10-20 images (either print-outs, a CD, or a DVD), a resumé, artist statement and any press clips to: Florida Mining Gallery Attn: Art Submissions 5300 Shad Rd Jacksonville, FL 32257 If you wish to have your materials returned, please include a ...
Geoff Mitchell’s exhibit at the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Biloxi, Mississippi opens tomorrow, June 12th! Here are a few shots of the installation process, taken by the artist. To find out more about Mitchell or his work, visit Artsy Forager’s recent blog post: http://artsyforager.wordpress.com/2012/06/11/june-facebook-featured-artist-geoff-mitchell/
artnet: Jessica Stockholder’s Color Jam Using 76,000 square feet of colored vinyl, artist Jessica Stockholder has created the largest public artwork in Chicago, IL, transforming the intersection of State and Adams streets into a playful and imaginative realm. Color Jam is one of the most extensive public art projects in the history of Chicago, and will ...
The Highway Gallery
Join Florida Mining gallery and Clear Channel Outdoor of Jacksonville in celebrating the opening of The Highway Gallery The opening reception will be held Friday, July 27th at 7 pm. The event is open to the public. Thank you to the over 100 talented artists who submitted their work for The Highway Gallery, and ...
REWIND: An Illustrative Look at Jacksonville’s History
Rewind: An Illustrative Look at Jacksonville’s History June 22- July 6, 2012 Opening reception: Friday, June 22, 7 PM Florida Mining Gallery is pleased to present ‘Rewind: An Illustrative Look at Jacksonville’s History’, opening June 22nd. Two prominent local designers, Karen Kurycki and Varick Rosete, were invited to curate a group showcasing local ...
Floridians
Floridians May 4 — June 15 2012 Opening reception: Friday, May 4, 7 PM Florida Mining Gallery continues its first season with Floridians, opening on May 4th and continuing through June 15th. The gallery will be presenting new work by 8 Florida artists; Mark Creegan, Lily Kuonen, Rachel Rossin, Jessica Borusky, and artist collective The Church of Holy ...
TRIPLE THREAT : 3 ARTISTS REDEFINING SAVANNAH
TRIPLE THREAT : 3 ARTISTS REDEFINING SAVANNAH MATT HEBERMEHL / MICHAEL PORTEN / TROY WANDZEL February 10th — March 30th Florida Mining is pleased to present Triple Threat, an exhibition of new work by three of Savannah’s most notable emerging artists, with an opening reception on Friday, February 10, 2012. The exhibit, curated by former ...
Geoff Mitchell : ENTRIES OF A DIARY THIEF
Florida Mining is delighted to present Entries of a Diary Thief, 18 new works by Los Angeles-based artist Geoff Mitchell, with an opening reception on Friday, December 9, 2011. The exhibit will run through January 2012. A native of the deep-south, Mitchell received a BFA in Painting from Western Michigan University and an MFA in Visual Studies ...
Tonya Lee : ALL SMILES
Florida Mining is delighted to present ALL SMILES, an exhibit of new mixed-media works by Jacksonville-native and Philadelphia-resident, Tonya Lee, opening on Friday, November 11. “A slack-jawed southerner, raised on the salt of the Atlantic foam, by a shark’s tooth hunter and a myth-maker.” Tonya Lee is not mediocre. An instructor of design at The ...
Laird : CPHACE
Florida Mining is delighted to present cphace, a series of photographs by Northeast Florida-based artist Laird, opening on Friday, October 7. “If I can walk down the same path as you and capture it differently, then that is what I will do.” The new series is composed of images captured during Laird’s travels to far-reaching ...
