8th Street Art Gallery

8th Street Art Gallery The 8th Street Art Gallery emphasizes exhibits that entertain and educate while promoting careers of its featured artists.

Artwork has been exhibited in galleries and museums, in groups as well as solo shows, from Florida to New York, to South America, to Denmark. The owner apprenticed under colorist Gilles Patrick Vallet, who is a student of Dali and Erte, as well as under classically trained surrealist Mimi Beoschlager and New York Photo realist, William Thompson, with work having been published in several national

magazines. The 8th Street Art Gallery is located in Jacksonville, Florida’s historic Springfield district. The original beauty of the building’s Victorian architecture has been preserved and was harmonized with modern touches that include heart pine floors and crystal chandeliers. The 8th Street Art Gallery emphasizes exhibits that entertain and educate, and promotes the careers of its featured artists. Exhibits include thought-provoking and inspiring paintings, drawings and sculptures.

She's the Queen of Hearts. She gets the prize. Bring her all the roses--lots of the rosy, red ones. Yes, bring the ones...
03/14/2024

She's the Queen of Hearts.

She gets the prize. Bring her all the roses--lots of the rosy, red ones. Yes, bring the ones with the deeply saturated red color on their Victorian petals--so richly permeated with expectation, the color so densely infected with the grandeur-filled traditions and oaths that promise intentions like "honest forever" and "so help me God."

She's been primed and made ready, and now she's been put in the pink until she blooms, fed with Hallmark-papered sweet nothings and fairytales at bedtime that promise fantasy-based lies. Fill her head with those bright white messages and mix in some pink because it's so true that pink is for girls. These are her lessons, and she's been relentlessly schooled to learn that to get pink, the white must be bright and the red controlled. With this recipe for the good-girl rules, she gets her roses, making her a queen.

"Queen of Hearts," 18"x24" pastel on paper, by Ray Castro

My father's hands were those of my first teacher--but not much of a preacher.He always kept to the traditional "busy" as...
06/20/2022

My father's hands were those of my first teacher--but not much of a preacher.

He always kept to the traditional "busy" as opposed to "idle hands" mentality--much like his father, right down to the pinky ring they both wore. His hands always managed to produce creatively and confidently in a way that seemed to go beyond any obvious source of training. That's what I like best about my father. I guess you could say he's had me and my brother in the palm of his hand for as long as I can remember, and he's used that hand to build, not to break--to help, not hurt--and to steady our journey.

"Father's Hands," 19" x 24" graphite on paper, by Ray Castro

08/25/2020
01/13/2020
" Langslyne Sunday" 24"x 30" (oil on wood)
01/08/2020

" Langslyne Sunday" 24"x 30" (oil on wood)

Trump-l'oeil : (to decieve the eye) is an art technique that uses imagery to creat the optical illusion that the objects...
01/03/2020

Trump-l'oeil : (to decieve the eye) is an art technique that uses imagery to creat the optical illusion that the objects exist in three dimension.

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39 E 8th Street
Jacksonville, FL
32206

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