Gallery Route One’s Annual Box Show 2025

The Box Show is an annual fundraising exhibit for Gallery Route One in Pt. Reyes Station in west Marin County. 

Here’s the way it works: Each artist (there’s now 150 !) is given an unadorned pine box. The deal is you can pretty much do anything to it as long as elements of the original the box remains in the piece (That definition can be stretched pretty far-- boxes on occasion have been ground to dust, burned to ash and otherwise rendered unrecognizable in the process of making an art piece).

Molly and I have been teaming up on the box project for many, many years (I’ve lost count).

Artistically, Molly and I have approaches that are very far removed from each other. She’s a painter (primarily portraits) and I’m a black ‘n’ white graphics guy, tending usually toward comic art.  So our team-ups are always unusual. Sometimes leaning more towards Molly’s aesthetics, sometimes more towards mine.

Here’s what we did this year.

Molly recently completed a large painting (more from Molly on that in a different post) 

and we elected to use that image of dancing figures playing music for our box—with a decided twist. 

We incorporated my particular version of reality... 

...with molly’s more classical approach.

We used Gel Medium to imbed my figures into the picture

Gallery Route One’s Annual Box Show runs from August 16 – September 13, 2025.

The opening reception is Saturday, August 16, 3-5 pm.  The closing Reception is Friday, September 12, 5-7 pm with final bidding Saturday, September 13, 10 am.

GRO Box Show

To see one of our favorite Box Show efforts check out this link:

Our 2024 Box Show piece