We have some exciting news for our GRO supporters! We have been offered a $10,000 matching gift, meaning that your donation will effectively be doubled until the match is reached during our Spring Appeal. This is a fantastic opportunity to double your impact! At GRO, we are committed to bringing engaging, exciting, and relevant art exhibitions to rural West Marin through our member-run gallery programs. Our Exhibition Program brings the diverse work of its artist members to the public in year-round shows; our Fellowship Program provides 2 emerging, greater bay area artists under 40 a year of gallery exposure and experience; and our nationally known Visiting Artists Program presents deeply impactful works on themes of environmental and social justice, and immigration. These themes continue to be incredibly relevant in this challenging time we are living through, worldwide.
Our well known and loved community outreach programs Artists In Schools and Latino Photography Project extend GRO's impact in ways that keep on giving. Artists in Schools brings a diverse group of artists and creative processes to K-12 students in the Shoreline Unified School District, and we recently expanded our reach to Nicasio and Lagunitas schools, enabling us to provide vibrant, innovative arts education to over 500 students throughout West Marin and Sonoma. The Latino Photography Project continues to center and share a frequently side-lined perspective with the community via gorgeous, photo-centric shows (three beautiful exhibitions in the past few months alone). New Program Director, Mabel Jimenez (of the LPP's 20-year Retrospective fame), is working alongside David Rodriguez to bring focus and energy to the program so that its fine work continues well into the future.
It’s an exciting time to be a part of Gallery Route One. We cannot do what we do without YOU.
Your support of the arts matters!
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Starting May 9th, Gallery Route One will be open late every 2nd Saturday from 5-7pm.
On May 9th, meet GRO artist EA Zappa who is showing in the Center Gallery.
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.”
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 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.
We had a lovely reception at Gallery Route One for our three exhibiting artists. Gallery Artist E A Zappa is showing "In The Land's memory" in the Center Gallery. He spoke about his connection to the land and specifically, to Alaska. A must see is his giant handmade 'pop-up' book!
Next, Visiting Artist Arminée Chahbazian whose show is entitled "Biggest Little Worlds", spoke about holding an egg up to the sky and suddenly finding herself considering the possibility of seeing them as planets.
Finally, Gallery Artist Jenny-Lynn Hall talked about the work in her Annex Gallery exhibition called (i'm)permanence. She spoke of the fragility of the work and the inspiration of geometry.
Please visit Gallery Route One Thu-Mon, 11-5. These shows are up through May 24.
Three new exhibitions are opening this Saturday, April 18. Artist Talks start at 3pm. Come early to mingle before the talks begin!
GRO Gallery Artist, E A Zappa: "In The Land's Memory"
Realist paintings and sculptural pieces inspired by the artist's love of Alaska’s wildlife and people.
Visiting Artist, Arminée Chahbazian: "Biggest Little Worlds"
oil and encaustic paintings paintings that award the seldom-seen egg with larger-than-life planetary presence.
GRO Gallery Artist, Jenny-Lynn Hall: "(im)permanence"
Drawings that evoke the duration and location of life, interconnected and infinite.
Gratitude for the rain this weekend even if we had to move the Spinning Time into Form walk to the gallery. Thanks to Mark Lipman for setting up the microphones so we could listen to the rain and for the great discussion. Also a big thank you to everyone who joined us Saturday and throughout the show and to the folks @galleryrouteone and @pointreyes_prnsa for making it all possible and of course to the land.
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Gallery Route One is a premier nonprofit art organization based in Point Reyes Station serving West Marin with exhibitions and community outreach programs for 42 years. It provides exhibition opportunities to area artists who are members of the Exhibition Program, showcasing artists from the Northern CA region whose work represents themes of the environment, social justice, and immigration.
In April, Gallery Route One will offer a three-artist reception on Saturday, April 18, from 3 to 5 PM featuring work by E. A. Zappa, Arminee Chahbazian, and Jenny-Lynn Hall.
“We are reminded daily that in these unprecedented times we are collectively experiencing, art is one of the things that connects us all through our shared humanity and creative expression.” - Shelley Rugg, Executive Director
Check out Marin’s highlighted happenings at the link in our bio.
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Three exhibitions close on Sunday, April 12:
Airiel Mulvaney- "Listening to Light"
Rainey Straus- "Spinning Time into Form"
Group Printmaking Exhibition- "Forces of Nature"
including Quinn Keck, Margaret Murray, Mike O'Shea, Nora Pauwels, and Leah Koransky
Gallery Route One is open Thursday - Monday, 11am-5pm
Just a little intro to Spinning Time into Form @galleryrouteone . The show is up through 4/12. Thank you to @shelleyruggarts for the video, the gallery for hosting the show, and to Point Reyes National Seashore and the folks @pointreyes_prnsa !
Through paying attention to the more-than-human world, Rainey Straus is returning to her roots.
Straus—a Bay Area visual artist and long-time visitor to Point Reyes—felt increasingly unhappy amidst the constant buzz of screens and tech chatter of the software industry; these feelings of unrootedness culminated during the pandemic and the 2020 California fires. She realized that in order to generate a sense of groundedness, she needed to return to her roots as an artist, leading her to create work inspired by Point Reyes ecosystems. These works include a cyanotype documentation of Meadow Trail (The Meadow Trail: 8 Days Out, 2022), and more recently, a sculptural exploration of the bay and oak trees growing along Earthquake Trail (Spinning Time into Form, 2026).
By paying attention and taking the time to truly see, Straus has re-rooted her personal relationships with the more-than-human world that she so missed while immersed in the tech world, and sprouted the seed of vitality that she felt when she first visited Point Reyes in her early 20s.
“We really have a hard time standing up for and protecting the things that we’re not intimate with,” explains Straus. “Attention is a form of care. I try to model that attention…I would really like my viewer to experience their own version of that with their own places.”
Read the full article through the link in our bio, and visit "Spinning Time into Form," now on view at Gallery Route One at Point Reyes Station.
📸 Tree exploration photos by PRNSA staff; Rainey sitting on rock by Janna Waldinger; Rainey at work by Sina Dehghani; photos of sculptures courtesy of the artist.
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