Our 11th Annual GearBox Gallery Juried Group Exhibition
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Call Type: Juried Group Show, Open Call
Eligibility: all Northern CA artists (Fresno and above)
Dimensions: Must fit through a standard double door 70“ x 84”
State: Oakland, California
Entry Deadline: 6/15/2025 11:59pm
Notification: 7/7/2025
Delivery Deadlines: In-person only Sunday 8/10/2025 noon-4pm
Event Dates: 8/14/2025 – 9/13/2025
Artists’ Reception: Saturday, 8/16/2025 1-4pm
Juror’s Curatorial Talk: TBA
Awards: In addition to acceptance in the group show, two artists will be awarded featured exhibition opportunities at GearBox Gallery
GearBox Gallery proudly presents: ABSTRACTION NOW! Our 11th Annual Juried In Person Show. This year’s exhibition focuses on the depiction of Abstraction in 2025. What is contemporary abstraction and how is it defined? What is its relationship to representation?
Juried by: Auriel Garza, SFMOMA Curatorial Assistant of painting and sculpture
An Open Call to Northern CA artists working in any media to submit work that exemplifies what abstraction is in 2025. What is abstraction today? In the current art world can we say that all art is abstraction? Artists are encouraged to submit work from all genres of abstraction; from non-representation to abstract realism. We encourage artists to challenge the definitions of abstraction.
GearBox Gallery is an established artist-run gallery dedicated to showcasing the work of its members and a broad range of regional contemporary guest artists, fostering community and education through intellectual and cultural exchange focused on the visual arts.
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GearBox Gallery is proud to present an open call to Northern California artists for our 11th Annual Juried Group Show. Each year GearBox Gallery invites a guest juror to select work from the greater Bay Area and beyond to show in this highly anticipated annual exhibition. Two artists will be awarded featured exhibition opportunities. This year’s open call will be juried by Auriel Garza, Curatorial Assistant at SFMOMA
This year’s theme, ABSTRACTION NOW! asks artists to submit work interpreting what abstraction is today in our postmodern culture. From nonrepresentational art to figurative abstraction, we are asking artists to show us what is your definition of abstraction?
About the Juror: Auriel Garza is an art historian, writer, educator, and artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She currently works for SFMOMA, where she supports the research, development, documentation, and interpretation of the permanent collection, temporary exhibitions, and accessions of the Painting and Sculpture Department.
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 Narrative Photography, and Raul Gonzalez: Doing Work. Her writings have been published in PATRON magazine, Fort Worth Weekly, and the Dallas Morning News.
Auriel has supported curatorial projects in several museums, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach, and the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio.
All entries will be conducted through the artist platform CaFE found here. Open to all media. Each artist can submit up to three images. There will be an entry fee of $35.00 for 1 to 3 total images and/or media files. The Call will be open until June 15th. Selected artists will be notified by July 7th. In-person drop off will be Sunday, August 10 from noon to 4pm. All work must be for sale. Work must be labeled with name and title written clearly on the back of each piece. All work must be ready to hang with appropriate hardware installed. (D-rings, wire or cleat)
Unsold artwork to be picked up on Sunday, September 14th from noon to 4pm.
CALENDAR
Open Call Entry Deadline: 6/15/2025
Juror’s Selection: 6/15/2025 – 7/1/2025
Notifications: 7/7/2025
In Person Delivery: Sunday, 8/11/2025 noon – 4pm
Event Dates: 8/14/2025-9/13/2025
Artists’ Reception: Saturday, 8/16/2025 1-4pm
Juror’s Curatorial Talk: TBAIn-Person Pickup of unsold artwork: Sunday, 9/14/2025 noon to 4pm