January 11 – February 15, 2025 — Juror: Frances McCormack. Featuring work by numerous artists in a diverse range of media including painting, collage, etching, photography, mixed media, and sculpture.
Category: Exhibitions Archive
Megan Broughton: Ice Watch – 2025 Fellow Inaugural Exhibition
January 11 – February 15, 2025 — Megan Broughton is a skilled printmaker committed to her craft. She is a graduate of the California Institute of the Arts (BFA, 2012).
Taryn Möller Nicoll: Dreamgirlz & Sofia V Gonzalez: Accumulations
December 7, 2024 – January 5, 2025 — Taryn Möller Nicoll: Dreamgirlz presents oil paintings and mixed-media works on paper and Sofia Gonzalez: Accumulations brings a new series of wall sculptures to the gallery, thoughtful abstractions created with natural dyes, silk, and oak galls.
Jeff Downing: The Grand Façade: A Reverence for Water
December 7, 2024 – January 5, 2025 — Jeff Downing: The Grand Façade: A Reverence for Water is an exhibit of boldly colored bas-relief sculptures in ceramics, found objects, and resin.
EA Zappa: For The Birds
December 7, 2024 – January 5, 2025 — For the Birds In an exhibit of colorful paintings. EA Zappa celebrates a newfound fascination with birds, telling a story of his joyous connection with nature and the passage of time
Make A Way: Four artists respond to the voting rights crisis
October 26 – December 1, 2024 — Make A Way is a collection of work created by GRO visiting artists Ileana Soto, Joanne Weis, Pat DaRif, and Valerie White, in response to the current voting rights crisis.
Will Thoms: Take a Moment
October 26 – December 1, 2024 — Thoms has assembled small multi-media works from freely painted paper scraps, creating rhythmic patterns, nearly musical movements for the eye.
Betsy Kellas: Imperfect Offerings
October 26 – December 1, 2024 — The show creates space for a quiet conversation between Kellas’ two-dimensional and three-dimensional works. On the walls are black and white monotypes with Chine-collé (pasted) collage.
Toni Littlejohn: Beholding Healer Archetypes
September 14 to October 20, 2024 — Gallery Route One presents Beholding Healer Archetypes, an exhibit offering archetypal healers in a cavernous installation as an essential and existential response to the challenges we are facing on planetary, political and spiritual level.
Amy Yoshitsu: Terrain in Vain
September 14 to October 20, 2024 — Gallery Route One’s Visiting Artist Program presents Terrain in Vain by Amy Yoshitsu, a photography-based installation of sculptures, collage and imagery that explore how physical contexts and systemic forces undergird our shared and intimate realities.
Kelley Berg: Before Salt and Memory
September 14 to October 20, 2024 — Gallery Route One presents Before Salt and Memory by GRO artist member Kelley Berg, a suite of paintings emerging out of a desire to focus not on our differences, but rather on the rich experiences we have in common; in this case, moving through the world in aging bodies.
The BOX SHOW™ 2024
August 3 – September 7, 2024 — A San Francisco Bay Area tradition, THE BOX SHOW is an annual showcase of the inventive and ingenious ways works of art can emerge from the starting point of a simple wooden box.
CROSS CURRENTS Annual Artist Members’ Exhibition
June 15 – July 27, 2024 — Circumstances are out of our control. Many of us are feeling whiplashed by politics, climate change and the economy. ‘CROSS CURRENTS’, is broad enough to encompass the divergent works of gallery member artists and speaks to the zeitgeist of the time we are living in.
Renée Owen and Mirka Knaster: RUST: A Topography of Time
May 4 – June 9, 2024 — RUST: A Topography of Time, a textural conversation entwining the artists’ interpretations of the diaspora, lines stretched across the globe, with the patterns and colors of rust creating a metaphor for the changes and loss woven through the refugees’ plight.
Beth Fein: The Poetry of Water
May 4 – June 9, 2024 — The Poetry of Water by Beth Fein, an exhibit of prints on paper and silk are an abstraction of natural habitats and water reclamation, integrating art and science as visual poetry.
Jenny-Lynn Hall: (im)material
May 4 – June 9, 2024 — (im)material is an installation addressing the arbitrary nature of reality by GRO Artist Member Jenny-Lynn Hall.
Ellen Vogel: Swallowing Sky
March 23 – April 28, 2024 — Swallowing Sky—mixed media works exploring physicality and impermanence by GRO artist member Ellen Vogel.
Patti Trimble: The History of Nature
March 23 – April 28, 2024 — The History of Nature, by visiting artist and poet Patti Trimble, is an exhibit of paintings and
text, telling three stories from science, philosophy, intuition, and walks in the wild.
Vickisa: Vickisa’s Love Supreme
March 23 – April 28, 2024 — Vickisa’s Love Supreme —Vickisa has chronicled countless music festivals, starting her works in front of a live audience including the New Orleans French Quarter Festival and her favorite,
Studio Artists of Art Works Downtown
February 17 – March 17, 2024 — Gallery Route One and Art Works Downtown, in San Rafael California present a variety of studio artists’ work in a group exhibition.
Valerie L. Winslow: Layers of Secrets
February 17 – March 17, 2024 — Low-relief sculptures and recycled objects probing psychological aspects of mental health including personal loss, depression and anxiety, domestic and child abuse, and isolation.
Taryn Möller Nicoll: Counter / Shading
February 17 – March 17, 2024 — Experiments in conceptual camouflage: In this body of work, recognizable elements from botanical illustration, human anatomy and the figure are detached from their traditional content and reconfigured according to their formal qualities.
CONNECTED — 2024 Annual Juried Exhibition
January 13 – February 11, 2024 — Juror: TaVee Lee. Gallery Route One presents the 2024 Annual Juried Exhibition, CONNECTED, featuring work by numerous artists in a diverse range of media including painting, collage, etching, photography, mixed media, and sculpture.
Sofia V. Gonzalez: Petaluma Topophilia
January 13 – February 11, 2024 — Petaluma Topophilia explores how collected natural colors and physical movement can map a place and one’s attachment to it.
GRO Celebrates 40 Years! — 2023 Anniversary Group Exhibition
December 9, 2023 – January 7, 2024 — Gallery Route One celebrates its 40th anniversary with an exhibition of over seventy past and present Artist Members.
Austin Buckingham: It is Born, Ocean in Winter
October 28 – December 3, 2023 — Gallery Route One artist member, Austin Buckingham, presents It is Born, Ocean in Winter, an exhibit of monotype prints which explore the vastness of the ocean.
Dale Eastman: Intimate Entanglements
October 28 – December 3, 2023 — Gallery Route One’s Visiting Artist Program presents Intimate Entanglements, an exhibition of artworks by Dale Eastman using natural and technological materials designed to cast the Environment in a larger, more complex, and more alive way, something with which humans can all feel they are necessarily and intimately entangled.
Steven Hurwitz: Following Orders
October 28 – December 3, 2023 — Gallery Route One presents Following Orders by artist member, Steven Hurwitz. This exhibit of painted wood constructions is an investigation of the vertical line, as well as how these works connect though disparate.
Charles Anselmo: Palabras Perdidas
September 16 – October 22, 2023 — Gallery Route One presents Palabras Perdidas by artist member, Charles Anselmo. Engaging ongoing themes related to urban context and the role of memory, Anselmo explores the dissonances of the forgotten cityscape through large scale social-documentary photographs.
Zea Morvitz: The Book and the Hourglass
September 16 – October 22, 2023 — Zea Morvitz presents The Book and the Hourglass, an exhibit of altered books which considers how we attempt to record ourselves against the passage of time.
Laurie Sawyer: The Nature of Place
September 16 – October 22, 2023 — Gallery Route One’s Visiting Artist Program presents The Nature of Place, an exhibit of illustrations observing and exploring the flora, fauna, and culture of here by artist Laurie Sawyer.
Xander Weaver-Scull: College to Fatherhood—a retrospective
September 16 – October 22, 2023 — Spanning ten years of artwork, Gallery Route One presents a retrospective of artist member Xander Weaver-Scull—College to Fatherhood.
The Box Show™ 2023
August 5 – September 9, 2023 — A San Francisco Bay Area tradition, THE BOX SHOW is an annual showcase of the inventive and ingenious ways works of art can emerge from the starting point of a simple wooden box.
FORTISSIMO! Gallery Route One 2023 Annual Members’ Exhibition
June 17 – July 23, 2023 — On this 40th Anniversary, Gallery Route One celebrates its strength and endurance with Fortissimo!, the 2023 installment of the annual members’ show.
Pat Augsburger: Time of Wonder
May 6 – June 11, 2023 — Integrating both abstraction and realism, Pat Augsburger presents a new series of oil paintings which depict figures in the midst of wonder, imagination, and/or curiosity.
Jean LaMarr: Still Here
May 6 – June 11, 2023 — Jean LaMarr’s artworks include paintings, prints, and installations that pay tribute to her cultural heritage, they also confront racist stereotypes of indigenous people in the United States.
Jenny-Lynn Hall: Changing Horizons
May 6 – June 11, 2023 — Gallery Route One artist member, Jenny-Lynn Hall, presents Changing Horizons, an exploration of both metaphoric and formal perspectives of horizon lines.
Charles Anselmo: Ephemera; A Photographic Installation
March 25 – April 30, 2023 — Charles Anselmo photographs the narratives that exist at the intersection of place, memory and social context.
Nimisha Doongarwal: Identity
March 25 – April 30, 2023 — Gallery Route One’s Visiting Artist Program presents Identity, a series of mixed media images by Nimisha Doongarwal.
Bruce Mitchell: One Times Three
March 25 – April 30, 2023 — Bruce Mitchell presents an exhibition of his work on the three mediums—wood carvings, paintings, and works on paper.
SEEN AND IMAGINED — 2023 Annual Juried Exhibition
February 18 – March 18, 2023 — Gallery Route One presents the 2023 Annual Juried Exhibition, “Seen and Imagined,” featuring work by seventy-nine artists in a diverse range of media including painting, collage, etching, photography, mixed media, and sculpture.
Vickisa: Unleashed
January 12 – February 12, 2023 — Vickisa presents a collection of artist books and paintings focused on daily life and music festivals.
Bernie Schimbke: Progressions
January 12 – February 12, 2023 — Watercolorist Bernie Schimbke presents Progressions, a series of pictorial and abstract works focusing on the artist’s shift in approach and process through exploring the inner self.
Truth: Artist Books and Broadsides
January 12 – February 12, 2023 — Truth: Artist Books and Broadsides is a juried exhibition exploring the shifting definition of “truth” through artist-created books and broadsides.
Betty Woolfolk: The Museum of Curious Memories
November 19 – December 31, 2022 — The Museum of Curious Memories is a fundraising exhibit of sculptural works by one of the most iconic of the Gallery Route One’s 39-year community of artists, Betty Woolfolk. Plus: Off the Wall is an exhibit of small works by Gallery Route One artist members.
Ellen Vogel: Pandemic Companions
November 19 – December 31, 2022 — Ellen Vogel offers a series of drawings in black, white and red, engaging a dialog between trust and awareness, to create visual representations of pandemic states of mind.
Will Thoms: Variations
November 19 – December 31, 2022 — Will Thoms presents Variations, an exhibition of eighteen mixed media works which combine collage and painting in uniquely innovative ways.
Zea Morvitz – Premonition
October 8 – November 13, 2022 – Premonition is an exhibition of ink and mixed media drawings on Mitsumata paper by Zea Morvitz.
Jane Ingram Allen & Jami Taback: In Deep Water – Rising
October 8 – November 13, 2022 – In Deep Water – Rising is a site-specific collaborative installation by papermaking artist Jane Ingram Allen and printmaking artist Jami Taback, who focus attention on rising waters and the increasing threat of climate change.
Zea Morvitz with Tim Graveson & Joyce Majiski – Collaborations
October 8 – November 13, 2022
Stephen Pring – New Colors
August 27 – October 2, 2022 – Stephen Pring presents an exhibition of paintings on wood panel, exploring the themes and forms of a primitivist “outsider art” through a meditative painting process.
Terra Art Collective – Ecolibrium
August 27 – October 2, 2022 – Featuring the work of Terra Art Collective’s four members, Ecolibrium presents watercolors, encaustics and interactive installations that are thematically focused on the need for a new ecological balance, one which satisfies human needs while fostering a vital, productive natural environment.
Steven Hurwitz – A Studio Road Trip
August 27 – October 2, 2022 – Featuring a series of two-dimensional polychrome wood constructions by Steven Hurwitz, A Studio Road Trip endeavors to fuse linear forms with vibrant color solution.
The Box Show™ 2022
A San Francisco Bay Area tradition, THE BOX SHOW is an annual showcase of the inventive and ingenious ways works of art can emerge from the starting point of a simple wooden b
2022 Annual Artist Members’ Exhibition: Opening Up / Looking Forward
May 28 – July 3, 2022 – Honoring a vibrant tradition which began thirty-nine years ago, Gallery Route One is pleased to announce its 2022 Annual Artist Members’ Exhibition of two and three-dimensional art, Opening Up / Looking Forward.
Austin Buckingham: A Life Without Design is Erratic
April 16 – May 22, 2022 – Inspired by the California Modern movement of 1930-1965, Austin Buckingham explores art and design through large scale works which interrogate color, line and form to present a mid-century modern aesthetic.
Dotti Cichon & Anitta Toivio: Seas and Trees
April 16 – May 22, 2022 – A collaborative interactive exhibition of a large-scale video installation with sound, photographs, works on paper, and sculpture about the climate change effecting our oceans and forests. The exhibited work is by collaborating artists Anitta Toivio of Finland and Dotti Cichon of California.
Nicole Irene Anderson: Unspoken Thing
April 16 – May 22, 2022 – Unspoken Thing includes a selection of oil paintings that explore themes of personal, sentimental, and tender memories of home, the comfort and beauty of the common landscape, painful histories, and the anxieties of living in a world forever altered by climate change.
Jenny-Lynn Hall: Winter Solstice
March 5-April 10, 2022 – Jenny-Lynn Hall specializes in texture-driven, abstract painting realized in both plaster and oils, challenging the notion that there is a necessary division between the decorative and fine arts.
Robin Dintiman: Skin; Everybody Has One
March 5-April 10, 2022 – A new exhibition of sculpture, printmaking, photography, textiles and drawing, Skin; Everybody Has One features work by Robin Dintiman.
Patricia Thomas: To Have or to Have Not
March 5-April 10, 2022 – To Have or to Have Not contrasts chandeliers with homeless tents to illuminate the widening gap between wealth and poverty.
2022 Juried Show: Blessed Unrest
January 22—February 26, 2022 The juried exhibition theme is based upon the words of Martha Graham, preeminent dancer of the 20th century. She describes the sense of unrest that stems from the insistent need to delve ever deeper into creative work, while also...
Bernie Schimbke – Metamorphosis
January 22–February 26, 2022 Metamorphosis, an exhibit by Gallery Route One Member Artist and watercolorist Bernie Schimbke, is a retrospective of the last five years. The visual explorations range from the pictorial to engaging abstractions of the physical world....
Mimi Abers: There Is Danger Everywhere: In the Time of the Pandemic
December 11, 2021—January 16, 2022 Addressing the myriad perils of our recent times, Gallery Route One artist Mimi Abers presents an exhibit of clay and cast glass sculptures entitled There is Danger Everywhere: In the Time of the Pandemic.
Bruce Mitchell: Mixing It Up
December 11, 2021—January 16, 2022 Mitchell’s upcoming exhibit at Gallery Route One, Mixing It Up, fuses the artist’s personal legacy and long history as a wood sculptor with the innovation of new themes.
Ashley Garr: Vitality
December 11, 2021—January 16, 2022 Vitality, a video/sound piece by Ashley Garr, focuses on burned but surviving trees, revealing the resilience and vitality of California’s most emblematic tree, the redwood.
Shannon O’Neill-Creighton: Queer Belonging
October 30 – December 5, 2021 A photography and interview project by Shannon O’Neill-Creighton, Queer Belonging shares the stories of twenty-four LGBTQ+ individuals between California and the Southeast as they explore the intersection of sexuality, place and...
Kristin Lindseth and Tali Margolin: Searching for Home
October 30 – December 5, 2021 Searching for Home presents the work of Kristin Lindseth and Tali Margolin, two artists who work with an awareness of the hardships currently being endured by individuals and large populations fleeing war, economic collapse, political...
Austin Buckingham: Amor Fati – Silks
October 30 – December 5, 2021 A series of black and white photographic images on silk, Amor Fati – Silks depicts a collection of visual memories which reference Austin Buckingham’s exploration of the principle of amor fati, or the love of one’s fate.ReceptionArtist...
Will Thoms: Curios
September 18 – October 24, 2021 Curios, explores the innate beauty to be found in the world of ordinary things. Each piece draws inspiration from the everyday materials at hand such as cardboard packing, wood scraps, wire mesh, an oak gall, pre-stained printed paper,...
ART ON THE EDGE: From Extraction to Restoration and Regeneration, Part 1
A WEAD Membership Exhibition (Women Eco Artists Dialog) Sixteen WEAD Artists' work on climate change and the impact of resource extraction on the earth’s global ecosystem and on human ecology, and efforts to mitigate these practices. Exhibiting artists: Jane Ingram...
Sun Night Editions
September 18 – October 24, 2021 A selection of fine art prints created by Sun Night Editions in collaboration with individual artists. Unique aesthetic and technical explorations, often challenging social and cultural boundaries as well as traditional ideas about fine...
The Box Show™ 2021
Thank you bidders and buyers in our Box Show 2021 Auction! We exceeded our goal and look forward to bringing you incredible art through 2022. This public exhibition is the biggest fundraiser of the year. The auction supports our community outreach, education,...
2021 Annual Artist Members Exhibition: Being Human Now: Twenty Perspectives
May 23 - July 12 The exhibit includes artwork by Mimi Abers, Charles Anselmo, Austin Buckingham, Robin Dintiman, Annie Duncan, Mary Mountcastle Eubank, Joe Fox, Tim Graveson, Jenny-Lynn Hall, Steven Hurwitz, Betsy Kellas, Bruce Mitchell, Zea Morvitz, Shannon...
Tomales High School Artist Showcase 2021
On exhibit May13–23.Virtual Reception on Friday, May 14, 5pm (Zoom link available at www.galleryrouteone.org on day of event) Ranging from painting to mixed media, drawing and photography, the exhibit features the work of 2021 THS art students taking classes under the...
Virtual Reception for Eubank, Duncan and the California Society of Printmakers
Mary Mountcastle Eubank: Layered in Time
Eubank writes, “The work speaks to some of the life layers lived, in the studio, in relationships, in dreams, rooting me in a lived reality. Because the scale of many of my paintings is large, the viewer is invited to relate to them as a whole body and to make contact, eliciting more of an energetic response and the opening of both mind and body.”
Annie Duncan: Bodies of Water
Exploring the balance between reality and imagined worlds while evaluating the role of human, subjective experience
Searching For Meaning, California Society of Printmakers
Juried by Dana Harris Seeger. An exhibition in the global art intervention : EXTRACTION: Art on the Edge of the Abyss
The Introverts Collective, Perspectives: Past, Present, Future: Conversations on Racism
Now part of a new installation in Gallery Route One's Project Space, "Perspectives: Past, Present, Future," was an outdoor installation created in 2020 by Naima S. Dean, Zoe Fry, Winona Nadine Lewis and Sharon Virtue, artists in the Introverts Collective. The four...
Joe Fox, New Work
Untitled, plaster, 6 x 6 x 10 ins Untitled, Plaster, 6 x 6 x 10 ins. Untitled, Plaster, 6 x 6 x 10 ins Untitled, Plaster, 6 x 6 x 10 ins
Charles Anselmo, Teatro / Moto: Photographs on Paper and Silk
Balcony, Ultrachrome Archival Print, 44 x 57 ins South Box Seating, Ultrachrome Archival Print, 44 x 57 insTeatro Campoamor #32, Archival Ultrachrome Print, 44 x 57 insAn exhibition of new work on paper and silk, Teatro / Moto interprets the textured patinas and...
Crossing the Divide; 2021 Annual Juried Exhibition
January 23 – February 14, 2021 Juror: Donna Seager of Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley Artists: Michael Acker, Charles Anselmo, Alan Babbitt, Wendy Baker, Janet Bogardus, Sue Bradford, Heidi Brueckner, Austin Buckingham, Marna Clarke, Valerie Corvin, Daniel Crowe, Ian...
Resilience / 2020 Annual Members’ Exhibition
Including artwork by Mimi Abers, Charles Anselmo, Austin Buckingham, Annie Duncan, Mary Mountcastle Eubank, Joe Fox, Tim Graveson, Jenny-Lynn Hall, Steven Hurwitz, Betsy Kellas, Marie-Luise Klotz, Diana Marto, Bruce Mitchell, Zea Morvitz, Shannon O’Neill-Creighton, Steve Pring, Igor Sazevich, Bernie Schimbke, Will Thoms, Vickisa, and Xander Weaver-Scull
She Inspires Me / Ella Me Inspira: now a book
BOOK SOLD OUT Participating photographers: Ana Maria Ramirez, Augustina Martinez, Betty Gomez, Gisela Alvarado, Isela Orozco, Jessica Oliva, Maricela Mora, Rosa Rodriguez, and Tere Gutierrez The culmination of a special documentary project supported by a grant from...
Ella Me Inspira / She Inspires Me
Nueve Fotografas Latinas y las mujeres que las inspiran / Nine Latina Photographers and the women who inspire themPhotographic portraits of North Bay women in positions of leadership For the past two years, GRO's Latino Photography Project students have captured...
Marie-Luise Klotz: Connected Earth
Marie-Luise Klotz is a photographer and visual artist who specializes in combining environmental photography with her fine art process. Her work is rooted in a deep care for the environment and the natural world. This concern prompts her to utilize imagery found in...
Jenny-Lynn Hall: Diary
Jenny-Lynn Hall has specialized in texture-driven, abstract painting, realized in both plaster and oils. She makes both large-scale pieces that create an environmentand work of small scale. While living in Italy, she developed a technique that combines painting,...
Falling Open: On & Off the Page, Book Art and Book-Related Objects
Exhibiting Artists: Jane Ingram Allen, Rhiannon Alpers, Pamela Blotner, Lyn Dillin, Kathleen Edwards, Paula Gray & Susan Gross, Timothy Graveson, Mirka Knaster, Rachel Laufer, Sherrie Lovler, Linda MacDonald, Teddy Milder, Renee Owen, Cheryl Pfeil, Louise Pryor, Inez Storer, Jami Taback, Susan Zimmerman
Andrew Romanoff / Life Work
An exhibition to honor Andrew Romanoff’s life-time of artmaking
Bernie Schimbke / Tsunami on Paper
Bernie Schimbke explores the visual dynamics of water and pigment when they flow together as a medium.
Self-Reflective Portraits by 8th Grade Grads
Congratulations to the 8th grade graduating class of West Marin School In 2020, as in previous years, Eighth Grade students at West Marin School made portraits of themselves in Frida Kahlo style, through Gallery Route One’s Artists in the Schools Program (AIS). The...
Xander Weaver-Scull
I am passionate about creating non-didactic, inspiring artwork of threatened and endangered species that cannot to speak on their own behalf. Through the use of freehand-drawn and cut stencils, watercolor, and homemade inks and paints from natural...
Charles Anselmo
Within the fabric of our cities are abandoned places which prompt complex questions concerning design, motivation and waste. I photograph the strange dissonances of this forgotten urban landscape, attempting to understand how memory changes perception as...
Marie-Luise Klotz
Connected Earth considers how trees are connected as one single organism that is whole in and of itself, yet are seen as separate entities to the human eye. A forest functions as an invisible network in which trees communicate, warn and nourish each other through...
Jenny-Lynn Hall
I make texture driven, abstract painting, realized in both plaster and oils.While living in Italy, I started experimenting with a technique that combines painting, drawing, and plaster. This allows me to take advantage of the structural integrity of ancient building...
Steven Hurwitz
It’s the simple pleasures that contribute mightily to fulfillment. Ones like a warm July day, hanging around with good friends and family in one of the original Beach Houses at Stinson. Pretty much unchanged from the ’40s which is when I’m guessing it was built. Most...
Bruce Mitchell
Making art is something I absolutely have to do because it fills my life with a delight like nothing else. What makes that experience so fulfilling for me is exploring the connection between my feelings for the material and the sense of discovery that happens in the...
Zea Morvitz
Drawing can be both an inward and a purposeful practice. But I want to get away from specific purpose, so I start off with random marks. A graphite frottage captures the rough surface of a rock onto paper. I then approach the paper, pen in hand. And each time it's an...
Vickisa
I love color, and use it with abandon. I have always been an artist. I see faces in the clouds. My art is personal, things happening in my life, surroundings, or my mind. Some take the form of admonitions like this Waiting series that started as drawings of live...
Tim Graveson
I consider my work conceptual photography with a performance aspect. For several years I have been placing books in certain environments and then photographing them. Often the environment is “natural.” The session begins when I place a book in a specific...
Mimi Abers
Art you madeArt you shall become.That's the lesson I've learnt..We're not made of stardustOr particlesOr a billion atoms runningUp and down our system.No.Art is what we're made of..Art is what we aspire to do..Art is what we inhaleand exhale..Art is everywhere..Art...
Mary Mountcastle Eubank
A sensuous relationship to the natural world is the subject. I want to imagine a replica of a landscape that is not an imitation, but a reflection of my inner response to landscape and place.
Diana Marto
I am an installation and performance artist. I love to sing, dance, paint the moment alive while being in nature.
Joe Fox
The process of casting a form combines many different skills that all come together in a single moment as the liquid material is poured into the mold. The commonplace object, once remade, is transformed beyond its original familiar existence which was likely taken for...
Bernie Schimbke
I’ve always sought out crayons, pencils and paper to scribble, sketch and draw as a child and that creative spark has carried me throughout my life. My focus in watercolor has been to continue that passion through washes and shapes with brilliant color for a larger...
Austin Buckingham
Austin N. Buckingham, PrintmakerMonte Rio, CAAustin Buckingham studied printmaking at the Art Students League in Denver, Colorado with master printmakers Mark Lunning and Joe Higgins. As a former environmental scientist, themes and elements such as earth, rock, wind...
Marna Clarke
I began photographing in 1972 after having dreamt I was a photographer. I was 32 at the time, living in NYC, married with two small boys. I took pictures of everything, eventually finding that people interested me the most. Taking portraits is challenging for me,...
Will Thoms
I want each painting to have a clear physical presence and to come forward from its place on the wall to meet you, the viewer. There is no illusion and no reference to anything beyond the thing itself. The driving impulse for me is always one of hopeful, open-ended...
The Box Show™ 2020
A San Francisco Bay Area tradition, THE BOX SHOW is an annual showcase of the inventive and ingenious ways works of art can emerge from the starting point of a simple wooden box.
Eric Kunsman: Thou Art … Will Give …
Project Space / February 14 – March 22
Dane Singh: Monsters and Nightmares
Annex: February 14 – March 22
Becca Barolli, Out of Hand
Center Gallery, February 14 – March 22, 2020
This Is Just To Say
Annual Juried Show Juror: Amy Spencer, exhibition director, Richmond Arts Center January 17 – February 9, 2020
Aiyah Sibay: An Alternative to Martyrdom in Palestine
Project SpaceDecember 6 – January 12, 2020
Xander Weaver-Scull: Ebb and Flow
Center Gallery December 6 – January 12, 2020
Isis Hockenos: To Dance Another Animal
Center Gallery December 6 – January 12, 2020
Vickisa: I’m With the Band
Annex Dec. 6 – January 12, 2020
Michael Krondl: Melt
Project Space October 25 – December 1, 2019 Michael Krondl: Melt Turning to the thematics of our troubled relationship with the natural world, Krondl explores an ongoing discussion from the standpoint of both society and the individual....
Madeline Hope and Joe Fox, Cast Off
October 25 – December 1, 2019
Zea Morvitz, Drawings and Books
October 25 – December 1, 2019
Eco Echo: Unnatural Selection
Project Space Friday, September 13 – Sunday, October 20, 2019 Eco Echo artists: Anne Beck, Barbara Boissevain, Ginger Burrell, Judith Selby Lang, Richard Lang, Kent Manske, Michelle Wilson, Nanette Wylde ;
Mimi Abers: Being and Nothingness
Annex Gallery Friday, September 13 – Sunday, October 20, 2019 ;
Steven Hurwitz: All of the Above
Center Gallery Friday, September 13 – Sunday, October 20, 2019 ;
The Box Show™ 2019
Aug. 2 – Sept. 8, 2019 Opening Party: Sat., Aug 3 from 3 to 5 PM Closing Party: Sun., Sept. 8, 2 PM; Live Auction at 3 PM Artists A – I Artists J – Q Artists R – Z
UNTAMED / Jewelry Outside the Box
June 21 – July 28, 2019 / Reception: Saturday, June 22, from 3 to 5 PMPresentation by Mike Holmes, owner of Velvet da Vinci, June 29 at 3PM Over one hundred works by established jewelry artists, including Eliana Arenas, Talya Baharal, Amanda Barlett, Liz Clark, Petra...
All In / GRO Artist Members’ Annual Exhibition
June 21 – June 29, 2019. Mimi Abers, Charles Anselmo, Marna Clarke, Mary Mountcastle Eubank, Joe Fox, Tim Graveson, Betsy Kellas, Isis Hockenos, Madeline Hope, Steven Hurwitz, Marie-Luise Klotz, Linda MacDonald, Diana Marto, Bruce Mitchell, Zea Morvitz, Dorothy...
Lucid Art Residency Annual Exhibition
Project Space May 10 – June 16, 2019 Miguel Arzabe, Eva Bovenzi, Neil Enggist, Tanja Geis, Morgan MacLean, Klea McKenna, Chad Moore, Joan Pearlman, Yulia Pinkusevich, Joel Sokolov Miguel Arzabe, SevenEva Bovenzi Chalcedony 12, Photographer: John JancaNeil Enggist,...
Linda MacDonald: Redwood Memories, Intimate Paintings
Annex May 10 – June 16, 2019 Linda MacDonald, Girl with Red ShoesLinda MacDonald, Ohio and Haverford TreesLinda MacDonald, The Auto Tree
Marna Clarke: Autumn
Center GalleryMay 10 – June 16, 2019Center GalleryMay 10 – June 16, 2019 Marna Clarke, Leslie Marna Clarke, Laure Marna Clarke, Bernie Marna Clarke, Marina Marna Clarke, Barry Marna Clarke, Andrew
Create!
YOU ARE INVITED To take free art workshops, watch demos and make your own artwork at Gallery Route One. Friday, April 19 through Sunday, May 5 (Closed Tuesdays) Learn to make cyanotypes, collage, draw, paint, create pamphlets and books, use pen and ink; sketch in...
Hannah Perrine Mode: Current
March 8 – April 14, 2019
Hannah Hersko: Tracing Voids
Project Space / Far From Home Series, March 8 – April 14, 2019
If I Only Had Time to Tell You, Annual Juried Exhibition
If I Only Had Time to Tell You: Personal, Political, True or Fictional Tales / Juror: M. Louise Stanley / February 8 – March 3, 2019
Earth / Unearth, Art Practice and Ecological Inquiry
Earth / Unearth: Art Practice and Ecological Inquiry, Dec. 28, 2018 – February 3, 2019
Diana Marto: A Stone is Singing, Canto XXXVIII
Diana Marto: A Stone is Singing, Canto XXXVIII, Annex Gallery, Dec. 28, 2018 – Feb. 3, 2019
Bruce Mitchell: From a Language of Forms
Bruce Mitchell, From a Language of Forms, Center Gallery, Dec. 28, 2018 – Feb. 3, 2019
Peg Hunter: Confronting Borders
Peg Hunter, Confronting Borders, November 16 – December 23, 2018
Johanna Baruch: Here / Everywhere
Johanna Baruch, Here / Everywhere, November 16 – December 23, 2018
Igor Sazevich: Time in my Art
Igor Sazevich, Time in my Art, November 16 – December 23, 2018
Peg Hunter: Confronting Borders
Contact: Vickisa: 415/868-0931 / vickisa@aceweb. Peg Hunter: Confronting Borders Friday, November 17 - Sunday, December 23 Opening Reception: Saturday November 18th, 3 – 5 PM Artist Talk with Peg Hunter: Sunday, Dec. 2, at 3 PM “In a line in the desert, in one’s mind,...
Xander Weaver-Scull: Larger Than Life
October 5 – November 7, 2018
Point Guild: Transmittance
October 5 – November 7, 2018
Dorothy Nissen: Sign Me Up for Treason
October 5 – November 7, 2018
The Box Show™ 2018
August 17 – September 30, 2018 Artists A – G [gallery...
TELL TALE: Gallery Route One Artists’ Annual Exhibition
Tell Tale, GRO Member Artists’ Annual Exhibition, July 6 – August 12, 2018
Tim Graveson: Books at the Beach, no knowledge was lost
Annex, May 25 – July 1, 2018
Yari Ostovany: Through the Mystical
Project Space, May 25 – July 1, 2018
VICKISA: Seeing Music
Center Gallery, May 25 – July 1, 2018
Lucid Art Residency, Annual Exhibition
April 13 – May 20, 2018 Teresa Kalnoskas, Mikey Kelly, Lawrence LaBianca, Jo Margolis, Grace Munakata, Rachelle Reichert, Mary Robinson, Kathy Sirico, Petra Soesemann and poet David Bailey.
Marie-Luise Klotz: Equilibrium
Gallery Route One Emerging Fellow, 2017–2018 April 13 – May 20, 2018 Annex
Tania Houtzager: Melting Point
Gallery Route One Senior Fellow, 2017–2018 April 13 – May 20, 2018 Center Gallery
Speaking Out: 9 Myanmar Artists
March 2 – April 8, 2018Project Space Speaking Out: 9 Myanmar Artists Htein Lin, Ko Z, Kyi Wynn, Nge Lay, Phyu MonSoe Yu Nwe, Cynthia Theint Soe, Zoncy, ZZDD Curated by Pamela Blotner and Mie PrecklerArtists Beyond Boundaries
Will Thoms: Paintings on Cardboard
March 2 – April 8, 2018
Road Maps Annual Juried Show
February 2—February 25, 2018
Marna Clarke: Recent Works: Keeping the Channel Open
December 21, 2017 – January 28, 2018, Annex Gallery
Contemplating OTHER: I know you are, You Know I am
December 21, 2017 – January 28, 2018 / Center and Project Space galleries
Mimi Abers: Of Gargoyles and Grief
November 10 – December 17, 2017 Center Gallery
The Latino Photography Project: Hogar en Cualquier Lugar
November 10 – December 17, 2017 — The Latino Photography Project: Hogar en Cualquier Lugar / Home in Any Place We Are
Marj Burgstahler Stone: Climate Change Continues
Annex November 10 – December 17, 2017
Steven Hurwitz: Conversations with the Night
September 29 – November 5, 2017 Annex Steven Hurwitz: Conversations With The Night
LINDA MACDONALD: Worlds Within
September 29 – November 5, 2017 Center Gallery Linda MacDonald: Worlds Within, Painting the Redwood Giants
Hungry Ghost: Stories of Longing and Fulfillment
Project Space, September 29 – November 5, 2017
The Box Show™ 2017
The Box Show ends on Sunday, Sept. 24
In The Mix: GRO Artist Members
June 30 – August 6, 2017 Reception: Saturday, July 1, 3 – 5 pm Meet Holen Kahn at 2:30 before the reception Salon: August 6, 4 – 5 pm GRO Artists: Mimi Abers, Johanna Baruch, Marna Clarke, Mary Mountcastle Eubank, Tim Graveson, Isis Hockenos, Madeline Hope,...
Geraldine LiaBraaten: Real/Abstract
Center Gallery May 19 – June 25, 2017
Betty Woolfolk: A Memorial Retrospective
Project Space May 19 – June 25, 2017
Andrew Romanoff and his friends: Shrinky Dink and beyond!
Annex gallery May 19 – June 25, 2017
Mary Mountcastle Eubank: Bookshelves
Annex gallery April 7– May 14, 2017
Lucid Art Residency Annual Exhibition
Project Space April 7–May 14, 2017 Marya Krogstad, Michele Foyer, Tina Hejtmanek, Carolin Rechberg, Elizabeth Kellas, Victoria May, Einat Imber, Glenn Carter, Zhiyuan Wang
Zea Morvitz: Rising to the Surface, works on paper
Center Gallery April 7-– May 14, 2017 Visit artist's website
Dorothy Nissen: Dora P. and other stories
Annex gallery February 24 – April 2, 2017
Brian Dean: A Land Between
Visions of Time on the Bay Trail February 24 – April 2, 2017
Afton Love: Through Stone
February 24 – April 2, 2017
Beginnings, Annual Juried Exhibition
Chester Arnold, Juror January 27 – February 19, 2017
Madeline Hope: Telltale
December 16 – January 22, 2017
The Inverness Almanac: Collective Retrospective
December 16 – January 22, 2017
Isis Hockenos: She Said She Said
Annex Gallery: Isis Hockenos: She Said She Said / Dec. 16 – Jan. 22, 2017
Johanna Baruch: An Inner Cosmos, new paintings in the Cosmos Series
Center Gallery, November 4 – December 11, 2016
Common Dilemmas: Work by Joanne Easton & Lorna Stevens
Project Space, November 4 – December 11, 2016
Will Thoms: Messing Around, sixteen small paintings
Annex: November 4 – December 11, 2016
Cynthia Toms: Stories to Tell, Discards & Variances
Project Space: September 23 – October 30, 2016
t.c. moore: reflections
Annex Gallery: September 23 – October 30, 2016
Diana Marto: Golden Room, Canto XXV
Center Gallery, September 23 – October 30, 2016
The Box Show™ 2016
This year’s Box Show™ is dedicated to Betty Woolfolk who dedicated herself to making the Box Show™ a great success year after year.
Points of Departure: GRO Artist Members Exhibition
Points of Departure
Mary Mountcastle Eubank: Place Markers
Center Gallery, May 13 – June 19, 2016
Sukey Bryan: Glacier Visions
Project Space: May 13 – June 19 2016
Kellie Flint: From My Failure to Ours
Annex Gallery
Lucid Art Residency Annual Exhibition
Project Space: Lucid Art Residency Annual Exhibition, April 1 – May 8, 2016
Mimi Abers: Exploring Pâte de Verre
Annex: Mimi Abers: Exploring Pâte de Verre, April 1 – May 8, 2016
Dorothy Nissen: Joy of Man’s Desiring
Center Gallery April 1 – May 8, 2016
Plastic Ocean: Omisade Amy Gerhauser; Lee Lee
Project Space, Feb. 19 – Mar. 27. Plastic Ocean: Omisade Amy Gerhauser: The Pacific Gyre Series;
Lee Lee: The Debris Project
Dennis Peterson: In Formation
Center Gallery: Dennis Peterson, In Formation, Feb. 19 – May 27, 2016
AQUA: Juried Show
January 22 – February 14, 2016
The Wild Book Show with Featured Artist Dylan Yvonne Welch
Project Space, December 11, 2015 – January 17, 2016
Vi©kisa: Drawing from Life
Annex
Marna G. Clarke: Time As We Know It
Center Gallery
Johanna Baruch: Suspensions
Annex, October 30 – December 6, 2015
Betty Woolfolk: The Museum of Curious Thought
October 30 – December 6, 2015
Minoosh Zomorodinia: Between Heaven and Earth
October 30 – December 6, 2015
Zea Morvitz: Drawings in a different light
Center Gallery
Tim Graveson: Collections; Zea Morvitz: An Alchemical Emblem Book
September 18–October 25, 2015
Diana Marto: Lighthouse
September 18–October 25, 2015
Claudia Chapline: Eating Plastic
Project Space, With the Earth Series
The Box Show™ 2015
July 24 – Sept. 13, 2015
Art Works! GRO Artists’ Annual Exhibition
June 12 – July 19, 2015
Geraldine LiaBraaten: Memories
May 1 – June 7, 2015
Jon Kerpel: Majestic Nature
May 1 – June 7, 2015
Jessica Eastburn: Channel Surfing
May 1 – June 7, 2015
Amy Ho, Lucid Art Residency Annual
March 20 – April 26, 2015
Lucid Art Residency Annual Exhibition
March 20 – April 26, 2015
t.c. moore: LOST ANIMALS
March 20 – April 26, 2015
Unearthing: 2 WEAD Artists: George-Ann Bowers and Reenie Charriere
February 6 – March 15, 2015
Andrew Romanoff: Looking Back, Going Forward
February 6 – March 15, 2015
Reaction: Annual Juried Show
January 9 – February 1, 2015
The Takeaway Show
Art you can buy right off the wall
Mimi Abers: Still Dancing
Center Gallery
Germán Herrera: Home, an installation
Project Space – Far From Home Series
Ann Knickerbocker: Tags
Annex Gallery
Will Thoms: This is Just to Say
Annex Gallery
Annalisa Vobis: pH8.1 Denatured Conditions
Project Space
Candace Loheed: Orangeland
Center Gallery
The Box Show™ 2014
GRO is open 11 AM–5 PM everyday during the BOX SHOW
Johanna Baruch
Johanna Baruch: Paintings inspired by the intensity, beauty, color, movement and ultimate mystery of the universe
Open Secrets: GRO Member Artists’ Annual Exhibition
Reception: Sunday, June 22, 3–5 PM
Disappearing Act: our role in species extinction
Project Space
Suzanne Parker: Painted Photographs
Annex Gallery
Geraldine LiaBraaten: Visual Poetry
Center Gallery
Vickisa: The Vickisa Experience
Center Gallery
Lauri Sturdivant: Applied Junk Art
Project Space / With the Earth series
Jessica Eastburn: Mutatis Mutandis
Annex Gallery
Tim Graveson & Zea Morvitz: Found
Annex
Wild Book Show plus Nature Journals by John Muir Laws
Project Space exhibition to benefit Artists in the Schools
Igor Sazevich: Glancing Back — Stepping Forward
Center Gallery
Catalyst: Annual Juried Show
Monica Guillory, Gloves On The Line, oil on panel, 17 x 21.5
Marna G. Clarke: Exposed
In the Annex
Lucid Art Residency Annual Exhibition 2013
In the Project Space
Will Thoms
In the Center Gallery
Mary Mountcastle Eubank: Edges and Flows
Center Gallery / Mixed Media Paintings
Jane Ingram Allen: For the Birds
Project Space / With the Earth series
Candace Loheed: Phases
In the Annex
Latino Photography Project: Residencia en la Tierra
Photographs by Gisela Alvarado, Ariana Aparicio, Mario García, Imelda Macias, Agustina Martínez, María Mercado, Maricela Mora, Rubén Robledo, Martina Roque, Juanita Romo
Andrew Romanoff: Shrink Art
Shrink Art!
Madeline Nieto Hope: Make Believe
Artwork from re-salvaged, re-purposed and reclaimed materials
The Box Show™ 2013
150 Amazing Artists
GRO Artist Members’ Annual Exhibition-3
Marna Clarke, 12 x 12 panel
GRO Artist Members’ Annual Exhibition-2
Dorothy Nissen, 12 x 12 panel
GRO Artist Members’ Annual Exhibition
Andrew Romanoff: 12 x 12 panel
Mimi Abers: A Splash of Color
Annex
Leah Jachimowicz: Reliquaries for the Materials Inside
Project Space – Far From Home Exhibition
Suzanne Parker: Uninvited Guests
Center Gallery
Eric Engstrom: Transitions, 2012–2013
Annex Gallery
Dorothy Nissen: Confessions of My Inner Dog
Center Gallery, March 22–April 28, 2013
Judith Selby Lang and Richard Lang: The True Cost of Plastic
Project Space: a With The Earth Exhibition
Igor Sazevich: A Glance Back to the 70s
artwork from the artist’s past
Diana Marto: Ineffable—Canto XXIV
Performance Sunday, Feb 10 at 3 pm
An Inventory of Al-Mutanabbi Street
Artist Books and Broadsides
Out of the Blue: gallery 3
Emily Shepard, Possible, mixed media, 24 x 24
Out of the Blue: gallery 2
Linda MacDonald, Vulcans Deed, oil on canvas, 30 x 40
Out of the Blue: Annual Juried Show 2013
Steve Emery, Unraveling, acrylic on paper, 20.75 x 20.5
Wild Book Show: Field Notes and artist books by Andie Thrams
Project Space
t.c. Moore: Horsing Around
Annex Gallery
Marj Burgstahler Stone: Journey
New Work and Retrospective
Will Thoms: Twelve Small Paintings
Annex Gallery – October 5 – November 11, 2012
Artists of the West Marin Review #4
PROJECT SPACE
Tim Graveson & Zea Morvitz: Duality
CENTER GALLERY
The Box Show™ 2012
150 Boxes by 150 Talented Artists
Sojourns: Annual GRO Artist Member Exhibition
Open Final Friday Art Walk, July 27, 5 to 7
Dorothy Nissen: The Magnetic Field
(A Work in Progress)
Andrew Romanoff: Then and Now
Reception: Sunday, May 20
Patti Trimble: Vanishing California
Paintings and Poems
La Vida: Trabajo y Familia (Work and Family)
December 12 – January 11, 2008 / Images of family life and hard work reflecting the way of life for many West Marin Latinos.
Geraldine LiaBraaten: Parking : Structure
Annex Gallery, 2012
A Través de Nuestros Ojos / Through Our Eyes
Project Space April 6 – May 13, 2012: A Través de Nuestros Ojos (Through our Eyes). The photographers: Gisela Alvarado, Ariana Aparicio, Mario Garcia, Imelda Macias, Agustina Martinez, Maricela Mora, Francisco Olea, Rubén Robledo, Martina Roque, Juanita Romo
Mimi Abers: Emergences
April 6 – May 13, 2012
Vickisa: Hardly Strictly Bluegrass
Reception, Sunday, Feb. 26
Myong-Ah Rawitscher: Far From Home
Reception, Sunday, Feb. 26
Eric Engstrom: Retrospective/Evolution
Reception, Sunday, Feb. 26
Geraldine LiaBraaten
Geraldine LiaBraaten: Photographs!
Duration: 27th Annual Juried Show, Jan. 27- Feb. 19, 2012
Reception Sunday, Jan. 29, 3 to 5 pm
Sightlines: An Installation, Dec. 16 – Jan. 22, 2012
Joe Fox, Sarah Myers, Eric Oldmixon, Jamie Shulander, Celine Underwood, Ido Yoshimoto
Diana Marto: In/Out, Sacred Texts
An installation of Sacred Texts based on a year long investigation into the dark and the light
Candace Loheed: Romancing the Chairs, Dec 16 – Jan 22, 2012
I wanted to create a space for the shadows of memories to reside in peace and to enjoy the patina of time and nature.
Raices y Sabores / Roots & Flavors
October 29 – December 5, 2010 / Photographs and stories that celebrate some of the many cuisines that have come to West Marin.
Betty Woolfolk: Vaporization
The Museum of Curious Thought / Vintage Science Wing
The Wild Book Show : 2011
Handmade books celebrating the wilds of the Point Reyes National Seashore and adjacent areas
Madeline Nieto Hope: Sewing on Running Fence
Using needle and thread, patching up a section of Christo’s Running Fence, with help from the public
Geraldine LiaBraaten : Shadow / Reflection
New semi-abstract photographs
Sept. 23 – Oct. 30, 2011 / CENTER GALLERY
Debra Stuckgold : Bounty
An installation of shadows
September 23 – October 30, 2011 / PROJECT SPACE
Eric Engstrom : Recent Small Works
September 23 – October 30, 2011 / ANNEX GALLERY
Outside The Lines : GRO Members
July 1 – August 7, 2011, ANNUAL MEMBERS SHOW
Will Thoms : Finding My Way
Finding My Way: Maps, Grids, Signs. May 20 – June 26, 2011 / CENTER GALLERY
Tim Graveson : Books Awash
May 20 – June 26, 2011 / ANNEX
Alex Fradkin : The Left Coast
May 20 – June 26, 2011 / PROJECT SPACE
26th Annual January Juried Show
January 21 – February 20, 2011
Juror: Rene de Guzman, Senior Curator, Oakland Museum