Sculptures by Aaron Badham ’11 and Prints by Rita Robillard

TACOMA, Wash. – Two shows are available to view in Kittredge Gallery. Artist Aaron Badham builds sculptures from inflated steel, creating soft, toy-like abstractions of machine parts and tools. Printmaker Rita Robillard uses screenprinting and painting to blend layers of golden light, fog, and evergreens, creating a sense of place in her prints that resonate with Northwest viewers.

Badham graduated from the University of Puget Sound in 2011 with a bachelor’s degree in sculpture. He went on to earn an M.F.A. in sculpture from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in 2014 and spend a year teaching art courses at Hastings College in Nebraska.

This spring, he joins the Puget Sound faculty, teaching sculpture classes in the Department of Art and Art History.

Robillard has lived and worked in more than a dozen places, each with its own unique qualities, which have inspired her questions about and reflections on place. Several of the pieces in this show were made during a residency at Oregon’s Sitka Center for Art and Ecology. Robillard worked with scientists studying the temperate coastal rain forest.

Kittredge Gallery serves as a teaching tool for the Department of Art and Art History and a cultural resource for both the university and the community, exhibiting work by noted regional and national artists. Exhibits and talks are free and open to the public.

 

Reception and Gallery Talks:

Aaron Badham ’11, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 5 to 7 p.m., Kittredge Gallery
Rita Robillard, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 5 to 7 p.m., Kittredge Gallery

Gallery Location: the University of Puget Sound, N. 15th St. at N. Lawrence St., Tacoma, Wash.
Directions and Map: pugetsound.edu/directions
Regular Hours: Mon.–Fri. 10–5, Saturday 12–5 
Website: pugetsound.edu/kittredge

PRESS PHOTOS are available upon request.
Photos on page: Top right: HUB, by Aaron Badham; Above left: Pillars V, VI, VII, by Rita Robillard; Above right: From Granny's Garage, Aaron Badham. Photos by Ross Mulhausen

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