Alexander Brest Gallery

Alexander Brest Gallery The Alexander Brest Gallery is a versatile 2300 square foot exhibition space.

The gallery showcases nationally recognized artists that work in all art mediums and emerging JU student artists and designers.

👀ARTIST ANNOUNCEMENT👀The Alexander Brest Gallery’s 2026-27 professional artist line up is here! Please welcome the follo...
05/28/2026

👀ARTIST ANNOUNCEMENT👀

The Alexander Brest Gallery’s 2026-27 professional artist line up is here! Please welcome the following artists our upcoming exhibition season.

Jeff Repko
Paul F. Yount
Chrissy Lush
Leigh Merrill
Christy Wittmer
Hillary Jones McCullough

The ABG experienced a record high number of applications with only THREE slots to fill - please give these artists a round of applause!👏👏👏

Exhibition Info & Dates:

August 17 - September 30
Opening Reception August 27, 5-7PM

Jeff Repko
Working Bodies

AND

Paul F. Yount
SILENCE.silent

November 19, 2026 - January 14, 2027
Closing Reception January 14, 5-7PM

Chrissy Lush
Hold Me Tight

AND

Leigh Merrill & Christy Wittmer
Circle, Form, Replace

January 21, 2027 - March 4, 2027
Closing Reception March 4, 5-7PM

Hillary Jones McCullough
Common Exposure: A Photographic Invitational, curated by Hillary to highlight Jacksonville, FL photographers.

More information to follow soon!

Festival of the Arts Recap!    From wheel throwing demos to cyanotype demos to custom blow glass, illustrations, prints,...
04/30/2026

Festival of the Arts Recap!    

From wheel throwing demos to cyanotype demos to custom blow glass, illustrations, prints, stickers, and newly released pieces—there was creativity in every corner. Even our own limited edition ABG merch sold out (!!), and the energy all day was unmatched.  

We owe a huge thank you to our student organizations—Choir Club, Gender & Sexuality Alliance, and the Asian & Pacific Islander Student Association—for helping make this experience so special. We had the best time celebrating art, community, and creativity together at Jacksonville University 💫  

Senior Thesis Exhibition ✨There’s one week left to experience this year’s Senior Thesis Exhibition at the Alexander Bres...
04/16/2026

Senior Thesis Exhibition ✨

There’s one week left to experience this year’s Senior Thesis Exhibition at the Alexander Brest Gallery—don’t miss your chance to see the show.

Thank you to everyone who has come out to support our graduating artists and their incredible work.

Runs : March 26 – April 22

Join us for the 5th Annual Festival of the Arts!Date: April 23, 2026Time: 11 AM – 5 PMLocation: Science Green (behind Ho...
03/02/2026

Join us for the 5th Annual Festival of the Arts!

Date: April 23, 2026
Time: 11 AM – 5 PM
Location: Science Green (behind Howard)

This event is open to the public and supports talented student artists from Jacksonville University. There is handmade crafts, original artwork, prints, jewelry, and more!  Enjoy delicious food, games, activities and more!

Are you in a club on campus? Join our event by setting up your own table through JU protocol. We’d love to share the stage!

Closing soon! ✨Experience the work of artists Leah Aegerter and Terri Warpinski, at the Alexander Brest Gallery! Ends: M...
02/18/2026

Closing soon! ✨

Experience the work of artists Leah Aegerter and Terri Warpinski, at the Alexander Brest Gallery!

Ends: March 4
Hours: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm, M - F

Don’t miss the chance to experience these two talented artists.

  

UPCOMING EXHIBITION at the ABG:Runs: January 29 - March 4 OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, January 29 at 5-7 PM + Artist Tal...
01/15/2026

UPCOMING EXHIBITION at the ABG:

Runs: January 29 - March 4
OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, January 29 at 5-7 PM + Artist Talks & Performance
Free Admission
Free Drinks & Food

MORE about the artists:

Leah Aegerter

My sculptures are abstractions of moments I experience in the landscape. Attracted to rocks as entities whose transformative nature codes them with life, I explore what it means to build emotional intimacy with them. As I travel through the natural world, I document geological textures through 3D scanning and then use digital fabrication techniques to reproduce the rocks in new materials such as wood and paper...  In an exchange of knowledge with the land, I fossilize my own moments of the physical and emotional human experience as tactile, geological representations…My sculptures help me confront what it means to be human in these animate landscapes that collapse deep time into the present moment. 
 
And

Terri Warpinski

Terri Warpinski explores the complex relationship between personal, cultural and natural histories through her lens-based, mixed media creative practice. Her current work, Restless Earth, draws attention to her home ground in the Great Lakes Watershed and the urgent necessity for ecological recovery, restoration and re-wilding in response to our global environmental crisis. For over four decades her various projects have taken her throughout the American West and Mexico, Australia, Western and Central Europe, the Middle East and Iceland. She resides in the glacially carved landscape that is ancestral home of the Ho-Chunk (Hoocąk) and Menominee (Kāēyās maceqtawak) Nations along the Fox River in De Pere with her husband, David Graham, where they founded newARTSpace. 

HAPPY NEW YEAR! As we gear up for the 2026 Spring semester to begin, we want to welcome everyone into the new year and s...
01/05/2026

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

As we gear up for the 2026 Spring semester to begin, we want to welcome everyone into the new year and send out a reminder that there are just TWO WEEKS left of our outstanding Faculty Biennial Exhibition.

Come by the Alexander Brest Gallery to experience and support a truly fantastic showcase of favorite JU and Jacksonville-based artists.

ITS BACK! The Faculty Biennial Exhibition at Jacksonville University returns! This exhibition is comprised of JU Visual ...
12/02/2025

ITS BACK!

The Faculty Biennial Exhibition at Jacksonville University returns! This exhibition is comprised of JU Visual Arts faculty and adjuncts.

This exhibition includes Illustration, ceramics, sculpture, computer generated art work, glass and photography.

The Alexander Brest Gallery is open to the public!

UPCOMING SHOW✨The Alexander Brest Gallery is proud to present the Faculty Biennial Exhibition.A variety of media and sty...
11/13/2025

UPCOMING SHOW✨

The Alexander Brest Gallery is proud to present the Faculty Biennial Exhibition.

A variety of media and styles from the Jacksonville University School of Fine Arts & Humanities Faculty come together in the Biennial showcase. The exhibition includes illustration, print, photography, ceramics, sculpture, experimental film and computer-generated works.

OPENING RECEPTION: November 20th at 5:00 PM

Run: November 20th - January 21

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2800 University Boulevard North
Jacksonville, FL
32205

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Monday 9am - 4pm
Tuesday 9am - 4pm
Wednesday 9am - 4pm
Thursday 9am - 4pm
Friday 9am - 4pm

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