Jayes Caitlin

Jayes Caitlin (born 1988, Portland, OR) is an abstract artist, designer, curator, educator, and master printer. She holds a BFA from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. Caitlin runs the design studio Heavy Gel, specializing in silk-screened concert posters, and serves on the advisory board of The Poster Institute. She is also a West Coast distributor for RISO.

Recently, Jayes relocated back to her hometown of Portland, OR, after 17 years in Chicago and Los Angeles. She is opening a PNW division of RISO Studio Arts, which will operate as a print gallery, studio, artist residency, and showroom, in tandem with its LA location.


Artist Statement

With a graphic arts practice somewhere between art and design, Jayes Caitlin’s bright work serves those with an affinity for non-objectivity, saturated colors and forms, improvisational compositions, and textures. Caitlin's minimalist works are ambiguous and systematic. She blends calculated and aleatoric processes, eschewing recognizable forms, and remains open to multifaceted interpretations. The works are meant to be experienced the way one might react to instrumental music—through feeling.

Caitlin is creating an abstract visual language across archival editions, paintings, and design projects, contributing to the role of the graphic artist and abstraction in the ever-evolving contemporary visual culture.


www.jayescaitlin.com