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SCULPTURES OF NATURE AND ORDER
 JOE SEGAL

A longtime Florida Mining artist, Segal explores the meeting point between nature’s patterns and our impulse to create order. Natural material. Deliberate form.

Segal’s sculptures bring wood’s grain, texture, and history into conversation with precise geometry. Carved surfaces and considered interventions create work that is quiet in its presence—and compelling up close

Swipe to see Eclipse and Hold 4. Original sculptures available through Florida Mining Gallery.

DM us for available works, dimensions, and pricing.

#JoeSegal #FloridaMiningGallery #ContemporarySculpture #JacksonvilleArt #StAugustineArt taken in Springfield Historical District, Jacksonville by @floridamining

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“Be prepared to play a long game.” — Craig Drennen

From Awful & Others at Florida Mining to Pale Fire in Paris, at @brigittemulholland Craig Drennen keeps following his own path.

In our latest Substack interview, the Florida Mining alum talks about intuition, sketchbooks, grunge, working in New York, and eighteen years of making art through the characters of Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens.

We also talk about THE END Project Space in Atlanta—and why giving artists room to do what no one else will let them do matters.

Swipe for a look at the work, then read An Atypical Art Path on Florida Mining’s Substack. Link in bio.

#CraigDrennen #FloridaMining #ContemporaryArt #TimonOfAthens #ArtistInterview taken in Springfield Historical District, Jacksonville by @floridamining

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Michael Saunders: The Desire to Be an Antenna.

From Philadelphia to Jacksonville. Saunders’s intimate paintings turn airplanes into vessels for body and soul, and landscapes into spaces of memory. Brushing, scraping, wiping and scratching give each small work a densely worked surface that rewards looking closely.

For current availability, pricing and a closer look, DM Florida Mining with the title of the work that interests you.

Selected works, 2026
In slide order:

1. out of the clouds and into the night — 9 × 12 inches
2. Last Days — 9 × 12 inches
3. Going Home — 8 × 10 inches
4. Frequency — 9 × 12 inches
5. no fear — 9 × 12 inches

DM us with the work’s title for availability and pricing. taken in Springfield Historical District, Jacksonville by @floridamining

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What do we inherit—and what do we choose to rewrite?

Georgia artist Isaac Mehki uses painting, performance, mythology, and pseudo-biographical storytelling to confront the complicated histories of the American South.

Currently pursuing his MFA at Carnegie Mellon, Mehki builds worlds where history, fantasy, politics, and personal inheritance collide.

Florida Mining looks forward to bringing his work to Jacksonville next year.

Read our conversation with Isaac at the link in bio—and follow along as we introduce the artists shaping what comes next.

What inherited story would you rewrite?

#IsaacMehki #ContemporaryArt #SouthernArt #PerformanceArt #ArtCollectors taken in Springfield Historical District, Jacksonville by @floridamining

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FLORIDA MINING GALLERY OPEN CALL

Florida Mining Gallery invites artists and curators at all career stages to submit work and project proposals for consideration as we plan upcoming exhibitions, installations, special projects, and sales opportunities.

We welcome all media, including painting, sculpture, photography, prints, video, sound, performance, installation, experimental, interdisciplinary, and experiential work.

ARTISTS

Please submit:

• 10–20 images of available or recent work
• Artwork details and pricing, if established
• Artist statement
• CV, résumé, or short biography
• Links to video or project documentation, if applicable

CURATORS

Please submit a concise exhibition or project proposal with participating or proposed artists, representative images, timeline, and anticipated space or technical needs.

Students and early-career creatives interested in internships, mentorship, gallery operations, curatorial experience, or installation work are also encouraged to introduce themselves.

Email submissions to:

INFO@FLORIDAMININGGALLERY.COM

Deadline: October 15, 2026

Internship and mentorship inquiries are accepted on a rolling basis. taken in Springfield Historical District, Jacksonville by @floridamining

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SAVE THE DATE — FLORIDA MINING REOPENING

On November 14, we open the doors to our new home at 1415 Walnut Street and begin the next chapter of Florida Mining.

Our Grand Opening exhibition, SHADOW ENGINES, brings together paintings and sculpture by Jason Brown and Eric Manuel Santoscoy-McKillip.

For Brown, the exhibition also marks a return to Jacksonville following years in Brooklyn.

This reopening renews our commitment to presenting exceptional contemporary art, creating opportunities for artists and connecting meaningful work with collectors—both established and new.

Save the date. We look forward to welcoming you back.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2026 6–9PM
 1415 Walnut Street Jacksonville, Florida

#FloridaMining #ShadowEngines #JacksonvilleArt #ContemporaryArt CollectArt

Flyer: Thanks @paddedlife
Jason Brown’s 📸 @matthewspiegelman taken in Springfield Historical District, Jacksonville by @floridamining

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Borderland Transitions

Hard-edged abstraction in Eric Manuel Santoscopy-Mckillip’s conceptual work

Eric Manuel Santoscoy-Mckillip is originally from El Paso, Texas and is currently based in Brooklyn, NY where he earned an MFA at NYU. Santoscoy-Mckillip’s work has been featured in solo shows at New York galleries including Kates-Ferri Projects and 80 WSE Gallery. His solo show composites: my eyes tear in the sun runs through Feb. 21st, 2027 at the El Paso Museum of Art.

Santoscoy-Mckillip’s work moves between painting and sculpture, as an examination of place and identity through color, symbols, space, and textures, “reclaiming what has already been reclaimed.” The transitions between these elements reflect the physical and mental in-between space of the US-Mexico borderland, the continually changing complex identities and histories of the artist and the geographic region. He builds a lexicon by reassessing pieced-together narratives, connecting to people and places no longer within reach. Link in Bio to full Substack article

To collect work by this artist or others please DM us here. taken in Springfield Historical District, Jacksonville by @floridamining

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We saw Isaac Mehki at the 2025 Atlanta Art Fair and couldn’t quite shake the work.

Raised in Villa Rica, Georgia, Mehki uses pseudo-biographical storytelling and intuitive world building to pull apart history, mythology, politics, performance and the inherited language of the American South.
These images are from Two Great Cowards & A Full Ten Rounds.

Credit: Craig Drennen and THE END Project Space introduced us to Isaac’s work. Thank you, Craig, for putting him on our radar.

We’re watching what Isaac does next. Exhibition at FM at some point in 2027, keep your eyes on our program schedule being published soon.

For information about Isaac Mehki and collecting his work, DM Florida

#IsaacMehki #FloridaMiningGallery #ContemporaryArt #SouthernArt AtlantaArtFair taken in Springfield Historical District, Jacksonville by @floridamining

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Jim Draper grew up in Kosciusko, Mississippi, the geographical center of the state. He earned his BFA from the University of Mississippi and MFA from the University of Georgia. Based in Jacksonville, Florida, Draper has taught drawing and painting at Florida State College at Jacksonville, Flagler College in St. Augustine, and as a faculty member and Galleries Coordinator for the University of North Florida. He is currently retired from teaching and works full-time in the studio. His work, which includes drawing, painting, photography, video and writing, is informed by journeys into the wilds of Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina. His work includes the book Shantyboat Stories, Broadbrush Press, 2024, available through his website. Check out his own Substack, and contact FM for illustration art prints.

“NOBODY IN MY FAMILY ever told the truth unless it was funny. Then we made it a story. What was real and actual we spat into a handkerchief, tied it at the corners and swallowed. Forced the bundle down in a dry choke, it lay tucked in the corners of our bowels.
Dark in our guts, reality festered and boiled, never able to gnaw through its swaddle.

Meanwhile we laughed. It was the only emotion allowed. Made each other giggle at the dinner table.
That was our pharmacy. Each dose measured, calibrated, pointed and distinct. Stories were distilled from facts, brewed and filtered to a tincture of truth.
Medicine.”

DM us for more information on this and other artists here. Or make an appointment to come in starting November taken in Springfield Historical District, Jacksonville by @floridamining

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SHADOW MACHINES : JASON BROWN

*The Revolution Will Be Sandwiched Between Reels*

Jason Brown is an American Artist who uses industrial painting and signage tropes to unmask the empty spaces beneath carefully choreographed social roleplays. Lifting content from stock images and internet catalog models that show up in our daily algorithms, Brown uses the concept of the shroud or the vessel as a kind of mask, worn to protect and also imprison the wearer. His subjects cut a swath through the entirety of contemporary culture, instantly recognizable and yet somehow anonymous and ambiguous. Born in Jacksonville, Florida, Jason currently lives and works in Brooklyn NYC, and will open a show of new work along with Eric Manuel Santoscoy-Mckillip at Florida Mining this November 14th

Photo credit: Matthew Spiegelman taken in Springfield Historical District, Jacksonville by @floridamining

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