The Box Show is the major fundraiser for Gallery Route One in Pt. Reyes Station in west Marin county.
The way it works is: Each artist is given an unadorned pine box (dimensions vary each year). 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).
The art boxes go on exhibit as a silent auction.
For years Molly and I have collaborated on a single box. Some years the final product looks more like her work, other years more like mine. And sometimes we achieve total mash-up.
Here’s what we came up with this year.
We started with some rough sketches and a pile of debris--I mean, raw material.
Which we messed around with...
Then Molly went to town on the basic box...
Molly made many changes to the landscape ...
Time for epoxy and nails....
This year’s Box Show is well under way (since Aug 2) and continues until Sept. 8th
For other posts of past Box Shows type in ‘Box Show’ in the search field in the upper left hand corner of the blog.
