Jacksonville artist Jerry Smith has completed an 8-foot by 9-foot painting for the entrance of the San Marco Branch Library. The entrance area is used by both the Library and the Balis Community Center located on Hendricks Avenue. The artwork is from Smith’s series “Paintings of ‘S’, and depicts a San Marco landscape near the St. Johns River. In it, a sudden gust of wind from an incoming storm catches a girl’s umbrella and causes pages from her book to fly into the sky. “These recent paintings have been made In Jacksonville about life in Jacksonville in one way or another,” said Smith. “Most often I choose as subject matter those closest to me and the spaces inside and outside my door. I seek the desire to send with the viewer a lasting impression of beauty and grace.”
~Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville
San Marco Branch Library/Balis Community Center, 1513 LaSalle Street, Jacksonville, Florida, 32207
Courtesy: Jerry Smith