Arts & Culture
First Art Opening at Board & Vellum’s “By Others” Gallery
Board & Vellum presents local artists Caitie O’Donnell and Sid Gaines in its inaugural opening of the By Others gallery. Native to the Pacific Northwest, Caitie O’Donnell’s work investigates the merging of strong graphic forms with abstract elements. Sid Gaines is showcasing two mini-series: Figures and Combinations, exploring the simultaneous fluid feedback and concrete nature of clay.
September 6, 2016
Capitol Hill Art Walk: Artist Reception at By Others
Board & Vellum is excited to announce its inaugural opening of By Others – a gallery at Board & Vellum's offices at 115 15th Avenue East, featuring local artists from Seattle and neighboring areas.
Board & Vellum is a small architecture firm focusing on custom residential, retail, commercial, and multi-family projects. Our office recently relocated to a brand new space that features a storefront gallery along 15th Avenue. On the second Thursday of each month, By Others will be participating in the Capitol Hill Art Walk, presenting rotating artists in various disciplines.
The September art walk features a collective show of works by artists Sid Gaines and Caitie O’Donnell. The reception will be from 6PM to 9PM, and is open to the public. Light refreshments will be provided. The work will be up through September, and is visible from 15th Avenue East. Read more about the artists and their work below!
Caitie O’Donnell
Various Works
I have a background in Drawing, Painting and Graphic Design. With this work I am interested in creating movement and simultaneous order through merging strong graphic forms with abstract elements. I am concerned with the idea of ambiguity, of creating forms that serve no function and that counteract figures found in natural landscapes. These contained, minimalist, three-dimensional structures underline, through use of color and composition, a fixation on rigidity and control while sustaining a sense of playfulness.
Sid Gaines
Figures & Combinations
I have a background in Political Ecology and Anthropology. I have spent time working in various settings from second-use building material stores to preschool art rooms that have both informed my approach to art-making. Originally drawn to painting, my current explorations in clay can be viewed as one step removed from the mark making of painting.
These two mini-series Figures and Combinations intersect in their approach to ceramics as a medium for constructing works of art that explore the simultaneously fluid feedback and concrete nature of clay. Subsequently, attempts to hide mistakes, ruptures, holes, breaks, and lines remain. It is more of a searching for a simplicity amidst a myriad of inputs, pieces, possibilities, and iterations. My work tends to explore the intersection between materials and forms. Beginning with figures as a point of departure these works move toward a more geometric almost collage-like assemblages, verging on play-scapes. I look at these all as studies in intersections between states of change and transitions into cleaner more digestible modes of being and viewing. They are attempts at combinatory play or as Diane Ackerman says, “The world of play favors exuberance, license, abandon. [In it,] selves can be revised.”
