April 5 – May 11, 2025 — Guest Curator Meyo Maruffo highlights contemporary California Indian culture with a vibrant group exhibition of paintings, drawings, block printing, basketry, regalia, clamshell beads, and one giant paper mâché pine nut.

April 5 – May 11, 2025 — Gallery Artist Vickisa presents a lively collection of paintings and artist books that explore its title both metaphorically and close-up-live.

April 5 – May 11, 2025 — With concern for climate change and love for the Earth, Gallery Artist Jizell Albright presents a series of drawings on paper, representations that are neither realistic nor abstract.

February 22 – March 30, 2025 — Gallery Artist Bruce Mitchell assembles a selection of his wood sculpture and prints, an evolution of work from two decades of work, 2006 to 2025.

February 22 – March 30, 2025 — Karen Rose exhibits paintings and prints of the natural landscape in places now marked as political borders. Some of the artworks show barbed wire or fencing, but inmost, the artist has removed human structures and machines that refuse access across.

February 22 – March 30, 2025 — Gallery Route One Fellow Zulu Heru shows scrap metal Afrocentric masks and sculptures—ritualistic objects that tell stories of urban environments with an ancestral aspect.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

May 4 – June 9, 2024 — (im)material is an installation addressing the arbitrary nature of reality by GRO Artist Member Jenny-Lynn Hall.

March 23 – April 28, 2024 — Swallowing Sky—mixed media works exploring physicality and impermanence by GRO artist member Ellen Vogel.

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.

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,

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

January 12 – February 12, 2023 — Vickisa presents a collection of artist books and paintings focused on daily life and music festivals.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

October 8 – November 13, 2022 – Premonition is an exhibition of ink and mixed media drawings on Mitsumata paper by Zea Morvitz.

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.

October 8 – November 13, 2022

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

March 5-April 10, 2022 – A new exhibition of sculpture, printmaking, photography, textiles and drawing, Skin; Everybody Has One features work by Robin Dintiman.

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.

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...

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....

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,...

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...

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...