Rebecca Padilla &
Amy Simons

By Pallet

June 5th–June 27th, 2026
Opening Reception: June 5th, 5–8pm

By Pallet is a two person exhibition generated from a single source: a discarded nestable pallet. Through collaboration and response, the artists generate paper sculptures, prints, collage, and installation work where each form and texture traces the one before it and serves as a catalyst for the next.

—Rebecca Padilla & Amy Simons

Amy Simons is an artist based in Bellingham, WA. She earned a BFA from the University of Washington and an MFA  from Arizona State University. Her foundational training in ceramics and textiles inform her approach to constructing work through form and surface, but she is drawn to printmaking for qualities of surprise, reversal, and the medium's ability to open new pathways or habits of thought. From handheld objects to architectural-scale collage simple shapes repeat, reflect, or otherwise reveal their two-sidedness. Tumbled together in relational composition, the shapes mimic how we organize ourselves: forming patterns intentionally, subconsciously, by luck, or mistake. 

Rebecca Padilla is an interdisciplinary visual artist and educator living and working in Tacoma, WA. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Art from the University of Oklahoma and a Master of Fine Art at Arizona State University. After moving to the United States at age 10, she has lived a transient life and is influenced by the many places she has loved. Her work explores themes of ecological grief, belonging, and transience through a wide variety of materials and processes. She grounds her practice in the words of anthropologist Tim Ingold, who say “The forms of objects are not imposed from above, but grow from the mutual involvement of people and materials in an environment..-we work from within the world, not upon it”.  Ultimately, she strives to make work that deepens our understanding and care for landscapes and one another.