GRO Exhibitions Press Release: April – May, 2026

Press Release: For Immediate Release April 18, 2026
Contact: Patti Trimble pmtrim@gmail.com (707) 360-8189
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Upcoming Exhibits at Gallery Route One
April 18 through May 24, 2026

In the Land’s Memory – “some places remember us” by EA ZAPPA
Biggest Little Worlds by ARMINÉE CHABAZIAN
i’m(permanence) by JENNY-LYNN HALL

Gallery Hours 11-5, Thursday through Monday
Opening Reception Saturday, April 18, 3-5pm.
Artist Talks at 3pm

Upcoming Exhibitions at Gallery Route One!

On Sat. April 18 Gallery Route One opens three new exhibitions about life on the planet. The public is invited to festive Opening on April 28 from 3 to 5pm, with artists talks at 3pm. Exhibitions run through May 24. GRO is open Thursday through Monday, 11-5.

E.A. Zappa exhibits In The Land’s Memory – Some Places Remember Us, realist paintings and sculptural pieces inspired by the artist’s love of Alaska’s wildlife and people. Jenny-Lynn Hall presents (i’m)permanence, drawings that evoke the duration and location of life, interconnected and infinite. Arminée Chahbazian’s Biggest Little Worlds is an exhibition of oil and encaustic paintings paintings that “award the seldom-seen egg with larger-than-life planetary presence.

The public is cordially invited to meet the artists and enjoy a glass of wine at the Opening on Saturday,

GRO Artist E.A. Zappa exhibits In The Land’s Memory – Some Places Remember Us, paintings and sculptural pieces inspired by the artist’s love of Alaska’s wildlife and people. —its landscapes, people, wildlife, and also the quiet relationships that shape Alaskan life.

Zappa says about the work, “Alaska, for me, became less of a destination and more of a relationship – a place that required a different kind of attention.”

Zappa is a Northern California painter and visual storyteller, and his work is representational, a visual record of places and people. He has worked for decades on themes of land, memory, and attention through painting, sculpture, and paper-based construction. This exhibition resonates with color and light, and it serves as a collective expression of the artist’s memories of wilderness and wildlife, and his thoughts about the enduring dialogue between humans and the natural world.

GRO Artist Jenny-Lynn Hall exhibits (i’m)permanence, an exhibition of subtle and evocative drawings. The title refers to how we—and all things—exist in time, and have a set duration. The work is created with impermanent mediums that will erode and change over time: soluble pencil, chalk, and charcoal. Visible in each piece is an underlying grid, a foundation of Sacred Geometry, like a map of duration and location, interconnected and infinite.

Hall writes, “Interconnection is ever present, and these pieces focus on duration. Everything from a shadow produced by a ray of light, a human life, even the stars themselves exist in time. All finite things are born and then die. Phenomena have lives only in connection to the duration and location of their existence. Yet we are connected to the infinite. To focus on individual frames of our lives—Maya or illusion in Buddhist philosophy—is suffering. As I age, I am faced with the reality that people and places I love also are aging and changing. Sadness, and thus suffering, often results. Yet this is a basic condition of life. To try to perceive unimaginable oneness is truth. It makes us kinder.”

Visiting Artist Arminée Chahbazian presents Biggest Little Worlds, paintings that “award the seldom-seen egg with larger-than-life planetary presence.” The exhibition is a series of oil and encaustic paintings on canvas and wood panels of varying scales. Chahbazian brings to her work a keen understanding of bird habitat and behavior. She expertly paints wild bird eggs native to coastal Northern California and often makes paintings of wood from trees in avian habitats. Her imagination also plays a role, re-envisioning eggs writ large, placed in vast continuums related to each bird’s home. Here, surrealism, symbolism, realism, and eco-art collide. The fragile egg is now an ovoid planet floating in a cosmological field, shifting macro and micro visions, dream worlds and real.

Chahbazian writes “I’m acknowledging the beauty and power of threatened life forms on planet Earth. For me, as our environment shifts due to climate change, these habitats take on a surreal quality. The rapid evolution and dream-like sensation of this moment in time has become my launching point for art. I aim to celebrate potential life forms contained within these shapes, the potential and fragile life that remains.”

Gallery Route One is a nonprofit art organization. Our mission is to originate and present contemporary art exhibitions, educational programs, and community outreach, to inspire people to experience the world in new ways. The gallery was founded by 25 artists in 1983 and currently maintains a membership of 17 artists and 2 Fellows. Our Board of Directors is drawn from interested community members, including artists. The organization offers two exhibition programs: Artist Member exhibitions, and Guest Artist Program exhibitions that feature guest artists.