Gallery Route One Exihiitions: DOROTHY NISSEN, JUDITH SELBY LANG AND RICHARD LANG, WITH THE EARTH, and ERIC ENGSTROM

DOROTHY NISSEN, "Mars' Book: Confessions of My Inner Dog."

JUDITH SELBY LANG AND RICHARD LANG, The True Cost of Plastic, 
A Project Space WITH THE EARTH exhibition

ERIC ENGSTROM in the Annex
 
Exhibitions March 22 – April 28
Reception for the artists March 24, Sunday 3 to 5 pm.  
 
Salon (artists talk) April 28, Sunday, 4  to 5 pm  re:purpose

"Mars' Book: Confessions of My Inner Dog." Mars is at once a real poodle and an inner figure who was born full grown in the psyche of Dorothy Nissen, and whose second birth on a higher plane, cosmic dream, and eventual coming out as a seasonal entity were facilitated by the painting of some twenty-eight paintings which the artist mines once more in this show. A new edition of  "Mars' Book" will be available along with other new work by the artist.

The True Cost of Plastic, is a mixed media installation by Judith Selby Lang and Richard Lang. Through the years, as a collaborative team, they have visited Kehoe Beach in the Point Reyes National Seashore hundreds of times to gather plastic debris washing out of the Pacific Ocean. They have amassed quite a collection of toy soldiers. Wracked by a long life at sea, some of the faces are gnarled, chewed on, abraded by the sand. Each soldier is a poignant reminder of the ravages of war and the extremes to which nations will go to preserve dominion over the petrochemical world. In their large-scale photographs the  soldiers will be represented.

GRO voted best Marin Gallery by the North Bay Bohemian and 1 of the 101 hot spots by the editors of Marin Magazine.