A program of the City of Auburn, The Vault Gallery is one of Auburn's newest art exhibition spaces. Artists are selected through an annual application process to create art installations in a small gallery within the Postmark Center for the Arts, dedicated to immersive and/or site-specific installations. The Vault Gallery provides a $1,000 artist stipend to support the creation of new work and site-specific projects for three-month exhibitions. The Vault Gallery is located at 20 Auburn Ave, in Auburn WA 98002, within the main gallery of the Postmark Center for the Arts.
For information on this art opportunity visit our Call To Artists page.
Current Exhibition
Josh Sands
Deluge and Refuge, 2024
October 30 - January 5, 2025
We are happy to have artist Josh Sands as our current Vault Gallery artist!
Artist Statement:
"This piece continues my series of temporary public installations that showcases glass in the form of raindrops. Here the ordinary experience of a downpour invites viewers into the space to contemplate, observe, and feel the sensations and emotions of such an event, in a displaced setting.
The narrative of this installation alludes to the importance of arts education and the need to shelter and support art during challenging times. Through the stewardship of local cultural centers like the Postmark and the City of Auburn’s programming, arts education and exhibition can continue to be provided and protected."
- Josh Sands
Sands' work will be on exhibition through January 5, 2025 and available to view during the Postmark Center for the Arts’ open hours.
Past Exhibitions
Amy Simons
Vault Shapes
July 20 - October 13, 2024
The City of Auburn is excited to present the work of Amy Simons in our newest site-specific art space, The Vault Gallery.
Artist Statement:
"These are woodcut collages. Woodcut prints because from each whole comes many parts, and collages because those parts together become another whole. They are shape shifters like us, navigating roles as both individuals and parts of collectives. Each print comes from the same block, but emerges with a unique impression, every color a mark from the moment of contact and a preservation of touch. The blocks are changed with each print too, recording, accumulating and transforming. I am interested in how we organize ourselves, what patterns we generate intentionally, subconsciously, by luck or mistake. My studio practice is one of trusting and practicing emergence: working in simple, direct interactions that unfold into complex entanglements. I look at how bodies in proximity become shapes drawn together, repel one another, or hold tension in the space between. How do bodies become ecologies of mixed beings –assemblages of minerals, microbiomes and humanness, further mixed with memories of our past selves and promises of future ones?"
-Amy Simons