GRO Exhibitions Press Release: March – April, 2026

Press Release: For Immediate Release March 7, 2026
Contact: Patti Trimble pmtrim@gmail.com (707) 360-8189

Upcoming Exhibits at Gallery Route One
March 7 through April 12, 2026

Listening to Light by AIRIEL MULVANEY
Spinning Time into Form by RAINEY STRAUS
Forces of Nature by QUINN KECK, MARGARET MURRAY, MIKE O’SHEA, NORA PAUWELS, & LEAH KORANSKY

Gallery Hours 11-5, Thursday through Monday
Opening Reception Saturday, March 7, 3-5pm.
Artist Talks at 3pm

Upcoming Exhibitions at Gallery Route One!

Gallery Route One in Point Reyes Station presents three new exhibitions, March 7 through April 12, 2026: AIRIEL MULVANEY: “Listening to Light” brings together two painting series: one exploring the inner light of being, and the other seeking to touch the living light of the Welsh landscape. RAINEY STRAUS: “Spinning Time into Form” invites viewers into a living field where sculptural forms and natural rhythms reveal the entangled life of human and more-than-human worlds. QUINN KECK, MARGARET MURRAY, MIKE O’SHEA, NORA PAUWELS, & LEAH KORANSKY: “Forces of nature” as curated by Megan Broughton & Kelley Berg and featuring five Bay Area printmakers share a variety of print media work that depicts literal and/or metaphorical portrayals of natural forces.

The public is cordially invited to meet the artists and enjoy a glass of wine at the Opening on Saturday, March 7, from 3 to 5, with artists talks at 3pm. More at https://galleryrouteone.org

AIRIEL MULVANEY: Listening to Light

“Listening to Light” brings together two painting series: one exploring the inner light of being, and the other seeking to touch the living light of the Welsh landscape.

Each work was created while listening to the Gayatri Mantra—considered the mother of all mantras and drawn from the Ṛg Veda, among the oldest written words on earth.

Airiel is a painter who creates spaces. She finds her home in the power of multiples creating installations. The number of paintings is determined by the content of the intention, such as the 108 paintings in the Gayatri Mantra series.

She says, “I love the idea of being a part of something greater than myself— to create environments that hint at the mystical and can possibly take one beyond our physical senses and selves. I would love for people to come into the installation and experience it with their eyes closed.” Airiel was born in Houston, TX.

airielmulvaneyart.com | airiel.mulvaney

RAINEY STRAUS: Spinning Time into Form

“Spinning Time into Form” invites viewers into a living field where sculptural forms and natural rhythms reveal the entangled life of human and more-than-human worlds.

Rainey Straus’s work emerges from a practice of relational attunement with place, materials, and the more-than-human world. Using biodegradable materials such as cast paper, papier-mâché, and bioplastic, Straus shapes forms that dissolve, lean, and respond to one another, inviting viewers to reconsider their place within a living, interconnected field. The work asks us to sense the world not as a static backdrop but as a co-creative presence.

Spinning Time into Form brings together unfurling seed-like forms that investigate edges, borders, and the ongoing flow of natural phenomena, alongside suspended assemblies that map the energetic signatures of Bay Laurel and Live Oak Trees at the nearby Point Reyes National Seashore. Accompanied by a dawn chorus recorded in the park by nature sound recordist Mark Lipman, the installation invites a space of deep ecological attention. Informed by quantum physics, indigenous knowledge, and contemporary eco-philosophy, Straus’s work illuminates multiple ways of knowing and being that shape our entangled experience in the world.

Rainey Straus is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice centers on cultivating kinship with the more-than-human world through painting, photography, sculpture, and installation. The painting series, The Old Growth Project, was exhibited at the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art and featured in Forest Unseen at the Petaluma Arts Center, The New Geologic Epoch with Ecoartspace, and Art & Ecology at the O’Hanlon Center for the Arts.

www.raineystraus.net | rainey.straus

QUINN KECK, MARGARET MURRAY, MIKE O’SHEA, NORA PAUWELS, & LEAH KORANSKY: Forces of Nature

Curated by Megan Broughton & Kelley Berg
Five Bay Area printmakers share a variety of print media work that depicts literal and/or metaphorical portrayals of natural forces.

QUINN KECK
quinnkeck.com | @quinn.r.keck
Quinn Keck (they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist who investigates concepts in math, technology, sociology, ritual, and philosophy. They work across artists’ books, printmaking, creative coding, and installation to discuss memory, perception and grief through questioning the manifestation of systems. They look beyond the arithmetic to dissect the axioms that define what is rational, logical, and default.

LEAH KORANSKY
leahkoransky.com | @leahkoransky
Leah Koransky is an artist and graphic designer who lives and works in Berkeley, California. Her artwork has been shown in group and solo shows across the country. She is also co-founder of Deep Time Press, an independent publisher of artist books and prints dealing with time, place, and the environment.

MARGARET MURRAY
@memprintmaker
Margaret E. Murray is a printmaker and photographer.  Born and raised in the District of Columbia, she has lived in San Francisco for most of her life.  She is an ongoing artist in residence at KALA Art Institute in Berkeley and a member of the California Society of Printmakers.  Murray exhibits her work locally and nationally and has been awarded The Arctic Circle, Artica, and In Cahoots artists’ residencies.

Murray holds a BA in semiotics from Brown University and a JD from the University of California Hastings College of the Law.  She studied printmaking at the City College of San Francisco, KALA, Crown Point Press, and the San Francisco Center for the Book.  Making has been her way of life since she was a child, and pressing ink into paper is a thrill hard-wired into her by her great-grandfather, a Scottish letterpress man.

MICHAEL O’SHEA
mike-oshea.com | @mike.o.shea
Michael O’Shea obtained his MFA in printmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute and practices painting, printmaking, and photography. He recently mounted solo shows at The Sequoias in San Francisco, The Dance Palace in Pt. Reyes Station, and Tom Biagini Gallery in Inverness.

NORA PAUWELS
norapauwels.com | @norapauwels
Nora Pauwels is a Belgian-born, Bay Area–based visual artist and printmaker known for inventive works on paper and textiles that explore botanical themes, typologies, neighborhood portraits, climate change, and the archiving of the everyday. She is internationally recognized for her printmaking and artist books, particularly for her use of unconventional intaglio techniques, including plexigravure and Dremel-tool methods. Her work often takes the form of documentation-like series that combine organic subject matter with structural systems and grids.

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.