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.
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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.
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.
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.
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....
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...
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...
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.