PROVIDING AFFORDABLE STUDIO SPACE AND engaging with the local art community
Our mission is to foster creativity and collaboration
Our mission is to foster creativity and collaboration
In 2003, four Seattle artists came together and purchased a former manufacturing building.
They remodeled the space with the sole purpose of supplying affordable workspace for artists.
The building is currently home to the studios of 25 artist-tenants and opens its doors for Ballard Art Walk every second Saturday (6 to 9).
BallardWorks is an early model for artists who want to secure a stable and enduring workspace.
Landscape as Memory, Emotion and Potential.
Melissa Dold, Kyle Cook and Angela Navarro are bringing their large format work, exploring the subject of landscape as a journey of emotions, connections and discovery. You will encounter three intersecting visual styles that explore this subject through diverse chromatic ranges (from the subtle to the unnerving), expressive brush work, detailed finishings, textures and patterns.
You're invited to celebrate the opening of this show with us. Meet the artists, who will be here during Art Walk from 6 to 9pm.
Melissa’s paintings depict imagined landscapes where small, isolated figures inhabit quiet, textured terrains. These still, cold environments evoke a sense of emptiness and emotional distance. While the figures appear alone, their gestures suggest observation, curiosity, and a search for connection. Using a limited palette and layered surfaces, her work heightens mood and detachment, reflecting on solitude and the human impulse to find meaning in unfamiliar surroundings.
To find more about Melissa's work visit: www.melissadold.com
Kyle’s recent work also centers on abstracted landscapes, incorporating fragmented figures sourced from Cézanne’s Large Bathers. These forms shift and deconstruct in relation to their environment, suggesting ambiguous narratives of adaptation, physical labor, arrival, and longing. Through unnatural, often lurid color palettes and gestural marks that reference vegetation or architecture, the work explores disquieting light, weather, and the tension between the organic and the constructed. The result is a layered, unsettled world in which figures seem to question how they exist and endure within it.
Find more of Kyle's work: www.kylecookart.com
Angela’s work presents us with playful creations of imaginary forms, that exist in the frontier with the absurd, as imaginary legged landscapes and balloon creatures, build like a quilt, with an array of deep harmonious colors that captures the spectator gaze inside a musical composition. A synesthetic experience.
Find more of Angela's work: www.angelanavarroart.com
Open every 2nd Saturday 6pm to 9pm
Ballard Art Walk
2856 Northwest Market Street, Seattle, WA, USA
A big red building across from the Ballard Locks.
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