The City of Auburn's 2024-2025 Downtown Sculpture Gallery showcases outdoor sculptures of various sizes, types and mediums. Primarily located along Main Street, the sculpture gallery changes annually providing different artwork for Auburn residents to experience and enjoy. Newly installed sculptures are now on display.
Vote for your favorite sculpture to win the 2024 People's Choice Award through our online submission form!
The Downtown Sculpture Gallery was partially funded through Local Revitalization Financing funding received from the State of Washington and 4Culture King County Lodging Tax. 
Check out the 2023-2024 sculptures:
Artist: Jill Drllevich
Title: Balance
Location 1: B St SW & Main
Statement: “Balance” speaks to the strength and beauty gained through ones ability to achieve a state of equilibrium. The raven, in the sculpture, is in perfect balance with its environment as we often see in nature. As humans, we struggle with this concept which is evident in our lives daily.
Artist: Dan Brown
Title: Picking Goldens
Location 2: A St SW & Main
Statement: I live in the Okanogan Valley and apples are a way of life here. I happened to have this brass apple and the idea for the sculpture formed around it. Sculpting humans is a challenge for me, so I like to make one occasionally to work on my skills.
Artist: Shawn Johnson
Title: Memories of a Heron
Location 3: 1st St NW & N Division
Statement: Whenever you have the luck of seeing one of us in a community of living organisms, an ecosystem of nutrients rich in “energetic flow”, think of the squawk of the Great Blue Heron & the sweeping melodies of these ancient musicians.
Artist: Jose Trejo-Maya
Title: Transparencies in Time
Location 4: W Main St & S Street
Statement: The sculpture came from dreams and being close to the sacred native American ceremonies as it is transparent and refracts the traditions of the Elders and we pay homage to them in a mirror.
Artist: Anthony Heinz May
Title: Entropy of a Tree
Location 5: W Main St & S Division St
Statement: Webpage structures can function as a tree, but no tree structure functions as a webpage. For example, a fir tree absorbs carbon dioxide (pollution) and releases oxygen in the atmosphere. Webpages release carbon dioxide while "absorbing" oxygen humans breathe while browsing the internet.
Artists: Jon Kalin
Title: Nurselog
Location 6: 10 E Main Street
Statement: Inspired in part by Buster Simpson's 1991 "Host Analog", this is a nurse log reinterpreted in a Brutalist style.
Artist: Ken Turner
Title: Life’s Ups and Downs
Location 7: 10 E Main Street
Statement: A sprout rises out of plant debris, grows to full height, then dies creating a base for a new sprout. The circle of life.
Artist: Ed McCarthy
Title: Totem for the Ages
Location 8: E Main & Auburn Ave
Statement: Totem of the Ages has a form as if shaped by time and markings from an unknown period of the past (or maybe future). The bright colors add a contemporary flare to the piece further questioning its origin. Encountering the seemingly ancient relic in an unexpected setting is intended to encourage the observer to contemplate our relationship to time, nature and the environment.
Artist: MacRae Wylde
Title: Two Cones
Location 9: 123 E Main Street
Statement: "Two Cones” is a visually simple form based on connecting circles.
Artists: Lin McJunkin & Milo White
Title: Helios II
Location 10: B St NE & Main
Statement: Helios is the Greek god who personified the sun whose light is reflected by the moon’s surface, represented here in these extruded spirals filled with silvery glass beads.
Artist: Shelly Durica-Laiche
Title: Crescent
Location 11: Auburn Way S & Main
Statement: Crescent represents my current exploration of the circle through abstract steel sculpture. I'm especially inspired by the many ways that circles exist in the natural world. From an atom to a planet you'll see them reoccur. They seem to be the most organic expression of life.
Artist:
Jenny Ellsworth
Title: Crackle
Location 12: D Street NE & Main
Statement: Crackle embodies the innovative spirit of sustainability by transforming repurposed shovels into a captivating pinecone sculpture, where old materials find new life in a creative and playful expression.