The Box Show 2021

Meta Box

Every year for over a decade Molly and I have participated in the annual box show at Gallery Route One in Pt. Reyes Station, Marin county.

The idea is simple; everybody gets a plain pine box. You can do anything you want to the box—paint it, decorate it, deconstruct it, smash it burn it—just as long as the box is in the piece.

Some years our finished piece looks more like Molly’s work; some years it looks more like mine.

Molly paints in vibrant color. I stick to my two favorite colors—black and white.

Many pieces attain a happy medium—or bizarre collision-- of both of our varying aesthetics. 

This year (like all things this year) is different. When ‘box’ time came around, Molly was on overwhelm with a big ongoing art project. Which left me sorta on my own. 

She did, in fact, do a lot of work on it--cutting pasting collaging and applying medium gel—but the images are all mine. 

The images were taken from a hodge-podge of prints, photo copies and original art.    It did feel a little self-indulgent—a box about me making a box—a ‘Meta Box’.

                                                    Inked pencil art
 

We adhered the artwork to the front and collaged the scrap images to the sides with gel medium.

I also added India ink wash to the primary image.

Very simple compared to some of our more complex cooperative efforts but we like it.

The Box Show opened on July 24 and runs through September 11th.

                You can see the whole Box Show (and bid on art) by going to Gallery Route One:  2021 Box Show