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The Famous Box Show
The much anticipated opening party for the 11th annual Box Show at Gallery Route One was great fun as usual but there was nothing usual about the selection of boxes in the show. It is amazing to me that when you give 150 artists exactly the same box to begin with, the end results are so completely different. Since the artists work in such a wide range of media in their regular artwork, creating a box is a step outside of the normal milieu for most of us and the challenge pushes our boundaries a bit. This is what makes the process so much fun for me personally. From the time we pick up the boxes to the deadline date, about 8 weeks elapse. Generally, I spend first 4 weeks thinking about the shape & dimension of the box as well as deciding on a theme. The second 4 weeks is spent on executing the actual work. 
This year, rather than doing a serious narrative piece or something in the line of Joseph Cornell, I decided to take a more playful, design-oriented path. During the planning stage, I had gone to see the Nick Cave exhibition at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in SF and immediately knew that I wanted to do something inspired by the colorful, playful craft of Nick Cave. All the components are recycled or repurposed materials, such as an old sweater, teeshirt and bottle caps. The piece is titled “The Center of the Earth, an homage to Nick Cave”.
Gallery Route One is an exciting community based arts organization based on the belief that art is an intellectual and spiritual necessity that belongs in every community. The mission is provide a professional exhibition space for artwork and a program that addresses the cultural, political, and environmental concerns of the rural community of West Marin and the greater Bay Area. The annual Box Show raises about $20,000 yearly to fund the various programs of the organization.
Some pieces had substantial bids by the close of the opening party and bidding will continue daily right up to the auction at the closing party on September 13.
Gallery Route One, 11101 Hwy 1, Point Reyes Station. Open 11am to 5 pm daily except Tuesday. 415-663-1347.
