The City of Auburn Art Galleries offer a look at the diverse work created by outstanding artists who live and work in the region. The galleries display rotating exhibitions featuring two-dimensional and small three-dimensional works by emerging and established artists from all around the Puget Sound region. The works are selected to highlight an array of artists and art works that demonstrate vitality, technique, and diversity in medium and subject. For more information on the artwork below, view the searchable document City of Auburn Art Galleries (PDF).
The Postmark Center for the Arts
Address: 20 Auburn Ave, Auburn, WA, 98002
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Gallery exhibits change quarterly
Auburn Community and Event Center Gallery
Address: 910 Ninth St. SE, Auburn, WA, 98002
Hours: Open Monday - Friday, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Bi-monthly exhibits
Current Exhibitions
Gabriela Nirino - January 9 to March 6, 2025
The City of Auburn and the Auburn Arts Commission are beyond excited to present the work of Gabriela Nirino at the Community Center Gallery, on view January 9 – March 6, 2025.
“I am a weaver. The first thing I think about when I find something new is whether it can become a yarn or be woven. Weaving is all about to interrelate, connect and building. I am interested in what happens in those zones of exchange between people, objects, materials, disciplines, ideas.
As a maker, I am particularly interested in natural, recycled and founded materials because I feel a responsibility every time I decide
to bring a new object to the world. I am interested in working with what is around me, to give value to forgotten materials. Doing with my hands is a way of approaching reality that allows me to think, stop, and choose. My previous work, the Jacquard pieces, talk about anonymous workers who build our community with their hands.
My work in recent years has focused on the world of plants. In 2020, during the pandemic, I moved from Argentina to Seattle, where my husband had stayed. For the first time in my life, I live in a house surrounded by trees. I had no materials, so Nature was my friendly partner and provider. I begin to use fallen branches, leaves, dirt. For several years I worked with corn husks. That experience helped me to work with some plants that I collect to transform into fiber. I believe in the need to recover and reforest the land and the pieces I do try
to talk about that.”
-Gabriela Nirino
Cheryl Sallee Gallery
Address: 808 9th St SE, Auburn, WA, 98002
Hours: Open Monday - Friday, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Bi-monthly exhibits
Current Exhibition
Sharon Gottula - January 8 to March 5, 2025
The City of Auburn and the Auburn Arts Commission are pleased to present the work of Sharon Gottula at the Cheryl Sallee Gallery, on view January 8 – March 5, 2025.
"Sharon Gottula's artistic journey took a transformative turn in 2010 when she saw her first encaustic painting. This encounter redirected the course of her work, steering it from photography to multimedia compositions.
A Leo with a fire-heavy astrological chart, painting with a blowtorch felt like a natural extension of her creative expression. Deeply interested in the environment, the natural substances of wax and damar enhance and intensify the environmental themes that feature heavily in her work.
In her encaustic pieces, Gottula juxtaposes transparent and opaque layers, integrating photography, fabric, and paper to create a complex, narrative storyline. Through this combination of diverse elements, she chronicles the transient nature of memory, captures the fragmented moments of human existence, and reflects upon the endangered fragility of our surroundings."
-Sharon Gottula
Auburn City Hall Gallery
Address: 25 W Main Street, Auburn WA, 98002
Hours: Open Monday - Friday, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Ongoing exhibits
Ongoing Exhibition
This gallery hosts a photographic exhibition featuring images of the City's Public Art Collection. The Auburn City Hall Gallery occasionally features special exhibitions.
For our site-specific galleries, head to The Vault Gallery or Art on Main. For information on application process please visit our Calls to Artists webpage.