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Forster Art Complex, Dennis Gallery: September 1 - 30, 2025

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Art Faculty Exhibition ’25
September 15 - October 3, 2025


This exhibition highlights the studio art practices of the Austin College Art Faculty. The exhibit has a range of media, approaches, and themes. The artwork in the exhibition underscores the breadth of contemporary faculty practice—ranging from the personal to the cultural, the humorous to the reflective—and invites viewers to experience the distinctive voices shaping the art program at Austin College.

Jess Reinhard (painting and drawing)
His bright vibrant acrylic paintings are rooted in graphic arts and graffiti. The paintings are charged with energy, weaving together mythology and complex narratives through frenetic layers of paint.

J. C. Neihardt (sculpture and ceramics) An interdisciplinary artist who uses ceramics, installation, and video to create semi-autobiographical art that explores personal experience touched with an edge of dark humor.

Mark Monroe (sculpture and ceramics) Is an artist who focuses on the reuse of materials, investigating the culture of space and the ways we interact with historic objects. 

Brianna Burnett (photography and digital media) Uses photography to explore identity, storytelling, family, and history, with a particular emphasis on and experience of place. Her photographs often draw on historical processes, foregrounding both their material presence and experiential qualities.

Tim Tracz (photography) He began his career making socially oriented documents, though his work has consistently contained threads of humor and self-discovery. The photographs in this exhibition highlight design and form as discovered in nature.

 

neon T over art print
Mark Monroe
Illuminated Gerstner

sculpture
Mark Monroe
Dance

iron view 2
Mark Monroe
Dance (view 2)

iron detail - 3D printed dancers in red seen through window
Mark Monroe
Dance (detail)

photo of playground
Tim Tracz
Dublin

photo of railings/parkinglot by beach
Tim Tracz
Brigantine, NJ

photo of outdoor furniture, green folding chairs, round tables
Tim Tracz
Dallas

photo of interior space with red tile floor
Tim Tracz
Santa Fe

photo of reflections of buildings on buildings
Tim Tracz
Austin

photo of view down from high rise into courtyard
Tim Tracz
London

photo: interior office with red lamp
Tim Tracz
Chicago

photo of white railing and black fence, leaning and bent
Tim Tracz
Portsmouth, NH

installation
J. C. Neidhardt
Nightblindness
Ceramic, lights/timers, video, projectors, frame

detail of self-portrait bust, light bulb eyes
J. C. Neidhardt
Nightblindness (detail)

2nd view of portrait bust
J. C. Neidhardt
Nightblindness (detail)

detail of installation: words printed mirrored on glass
J. C. Neidhardt
Nightblindness (detail)

bed cover and pillow made of fake skin with tatoos
J. C. Neidhardt
The Comfort of Skin
Silicone, sutures, tattoo ink, hair, embroidery floss, sheet, twindbed frame

bed view 2
J. C. Neidhardt
The Comfort of Skin (view 2)

bed detail
J. C. Neidhardt
The Comfort of Skin (detail)

ceramic set
J. C. Neidhardt
Pink Pony Club, on the Rocks
Ceramic

3 ceramic cups, green/pink on stand
J. C. Neidhardt
A Zenith of Man's Delight, A Mint Julep.
Ceramic

2nd view of cups
J. C. Neidhardt
A Zenith of Man's Delight, A Mint Julep. (view 2)

ceramic
J. C. Neidhardt
I'm Talking to My Friends Mamaw! - Tide Bottle
ceramic

jug face view 2
J. C. Neidhardt
I'm Talking to My Friends Mamaw! - Tide Bottle (view 2)
sculpture
Mark Monroe
Untitled

gun toaster view 2
Mark Monroe
Untitled (view 2)

wall sculpture
Brianna Burnett & Mark Monroe
Alliterations

cross view 2
Brianna Burnett & Mark Monroe
Alliterations (view 2)

cross detail
Brianna Burnett & Mark Monroe
Alliterations (detail)

painting
Jess Reinhard
Above the Law
Acrylic

painting
Jess Reinhard
This is Now
Acrylic

painting
Jess Reinhard
Don't Mess with Jess
Acrylic

painting
Jess Reinhard
Congratulations It's a Demon
Acrylic

painting
Jess Reinhard
Fossil Fools
Acrylic

Lumen of plants, scanned and printed
Brianna Burnett
Untitled - What Remains After
Archival pigment print
2025

Lumen of plants, scanned and printed
Brianna Burnett
Untitled - What Remains After
Archival pigment print
2025

Lumen of plants, scanned and printed
Brianna Burnett
Untitled - What Remains After
Archival pigment print
2025

3 lumen prints clipped up with space for more
Brianna Burnett
Of Light and Time September 10, September 15, September 18, September 22, September 25
Lumenprint, unfixed on expired photographic paper
2025

Lumen of plants, scanned and printed
Brianna Burnett
Untitled - What Remains After
Archival pigment print
2025

Lumen of plants, scanned and printed
Brianna Burnett
Untitled - What Remains After
Archival pigment print
2025