Some of Mark Creegan's past work. LEFT: Standing (handles up), acrylic paint and mediums on tennis racquets and wood, 29. 5” x 5”, 2022. RIGHT: Syllabus, acrylic on panel, 12” x 12”, 2015
Published on August 28, 2024 at 4:58 pm
Free local news and info, in your inbox at 6 a.m. M-F. Sign up for the Jacksonville Today newsletter.
Jacksonville Today Arts and Culture Editor Matt Shaw shares his arts and culture picks for the Labor Day weekend.
Friday
Alphonso Horne Band
The Jessie | Downtown Jacksonville
Duval drummer Jonathan Lumpkin’s Jazz Discovery Series continues with a concert headlined by the Alphonso Horne Band. A renowned trumpeter, Horne has performed with Wynton Marsalis’ Jazz at Lincoln Center Band and maintained an illustrious career as a sought-after side man. In addition to Horne’s band, Friday’s concert includes performances by Lumpkin’s JL Institute and JAMS Davis, an ensemble of young musicians from the Jacksonville Arts and Music School. Show starts at 7 p.m. Tickets and more info.
Jacksonville Today thanks our sponsors. Become one.
Saturday
EAGGHeads Pop Up & Book Launch
Native Sun | Jacksonville Beach
In operation from the mid-’80s to 1997, the all-ages Jacksonville Beach live-music club Einstein A Go-Go was a bastion for both young music fans and bands from the burgeoning independent music culture of the late-20th century. Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Dinosaur Jr., The Replacements and the Red Hot Chili Peppers are just a few of the eye-popping list of now-hugely-famous bands that played EAGG. The beloved club, which has inspired songs and award-winning novels, is now the subject of a new book, Occupancy 250: Fans, Bands and Fried Chicken, which includes a collection of photos, fliers, ticket stubs and stories from club regulars (“EAGGheads”) and bands who performed there. A pop-up event celebrating the book’s release is held from 2-4 p.m. at Jax Beach’s Native Sun, where attendees can score a copy of the book, as well as EAGG merch. The festivities continue at 8 p.m. at Jack Rabbits in San Marco, where members of seminal Athens, Georgia, art-rock band Pylon (who played EAGG back in the venue’s glory days) will perform as Pylon Reenactment Society. (Read this interview with Pylon’s Vanessa Briscoe-Hay from the Jacksonville Music Experience.) Copies of the book will also be on sale at the show. The Native Sun pop–up is free to attend; the Jack Rabbits show is $20. More info.
Saturday
Mark Creegan: Edith Bunker: A Retrospective
Florida State College at Jacksonville’s Kent Campus Gallery | Avondale
Dopey formalism. Silly songs. Glued-together tennis rackets with names like “Billie Jean deKooning.” The breadth and depth of the output of Jacksonville’s Mark Creegan is perhaps only eclipsed by the artist and FSCJ professor’s playful wit. A limited-run retrospective of Creegan’s work, called Mark Creegan Edith Bunker, just opened at the FSCJ Kent Gallery. True to form, the work on view has little or nothing to do with the All in the Family matriarch other than, as Creegan puts it: “I love her.” The exhibition, which features an array of paintings, sculptures, zines, and video and sound art, can be viewed from noon-3 p.m. on Saturday. It’s free to attend. Gallery info.
Jacksonville Today thanks our sponsors. Become one.
