Imagine a room where 150 windows open into alternate worlds, be they simple, garish, theatrical, or dreamy. This is the feeling one gets walking into Gallery Route One’s 17th Box Show, an annual fundraiser that has grown into a Bay Area institution. Each work of art is created in, on, or out of identical wooden boxes—but the possibilities are endless.
“It has really put the gallery on the map with a lot of people,” said…