PAST EXHIBITIONS 2024
Abstraction NOW!
10th Annual Northern CA Juried Exhibition
Juror, Auriel Garza
August 14 - September 13, 2025
Selected Artists
Erika Adkins, Javier Arizmendi, Linda Belden, Jo Ann Biagini, Gina Borg, Kristen Brown, Vibrata Chromodoris, Gary Comoglio, Chelsea Delaney, Erica Dincalci, Anthony Fashana, John Ferrell, Jonathan Gaber, ZedekiahGonsalves Schild, Kitty Gordon, Tali Grinshpan, LuluCat Hailouros, Mair Host, Scott Idleman, Jeff Key, BrandonLarson, Abby Lawrence, Jeanne Lorenz, Nichol Markowitz, Dinah Mcfarlane, Mary Mocas, Denise Owen, JohannaPoethig, Anthony Ramsey, Robert Ross, Roxanne Schwartz, Larraine Seiden, Deborah Sibony, Sally Smith, CharlesStewart, Monica Valdez, and Audrey Tulimiero Welch
GearBox Gallery proudly presents ABSTRACTION NOW!, our 11th Annual Juried Exhibition. Each year we invitea guest juror to select work from the greater Bay Area and beyond to show in this highly anticipated annual exhibition. This year’s exhibition focuses on the depiction of Abstraction in 2025, juried by SFMOMA Curatorial Assistant of painting and sculpture, Auriel Garza. Artists were invited to submit work interpreting what abstraction is today in our postmodern culture. From nonrepresentational art to figurative abstraction, we asked artists to show us their definition of abstraction.
The exhibition was open to Northern California Artists working in all mediums with work by thirty-seven artists selected for the in-person exhibition at GearBox Gallery. Awards include future exhibition opportunities at Gearbox Gallery with this year’s winners:
Juror’s Award, Javier Arizmendi-Kalb
The winner of the Juror’s Award is offered the opportunity to participate in a two-person featured exhibition at GearboxGallery. Javier’s work is scheduled to show April 16 – May 23, 2026.
GearBox Gallery Award, Monica Valdez Harb
The GearBox Gallery Award winner is offered an exhibition in the Inner Room, a special project space within the Gallery. Monica’s Inner Room show is scheduled September 24–October 31, 2026.
About the Juror, Auriel Garza
Auriel Garza is an art historian, writer, educator, and artist based in the SanFrancisco Bay Area.She currently works forSFMOMA, where she supports the research, development, documentation, and interpretation of the permanent collection, temporary exhibitions, and accessions of thePainting and SculptureDepartment.
Auriel has helped organize and curate over thirty modern and contemporary art exhibitions. She is a co-author of the publications: Dallas Museum of Art: A Guide to the Collection, Telling Tales: Contemporary NarrativePhotography, and RaulGonzalez: Doing Work. Her writings have been published in PATRON magazine, Fort Worth Weekly, and the DallasMorning News.
Auriel has supportedcuratorial projects inseveral museums,including the ArtInstitute of Chicago, theMuseum of Fine Arts,Houston, the DallasMuseum of Art, the BassMuseum of Art in MiamiBeach, and the McNayArt Museum in SanAntonio.
