Call for Artists/Art
SPRING 2025 JURIED ART SHOW: LOCALS ONLY
Theme: Perspectives
This year’s juried exhibition invites San Ramon artists to explore the theme of Perspective—whether through literal viewpoints, personal interpretations, or conceptual explorations of perception itself. How does perspective influence our understanding of a subject, an idea, or an experience? From bold visual angles and depth to cultural viewpoints and personal reflections, this theme encourages artists to bring their unique lens to their work. We welcome a wide range of artistic styles and mediums that interpret perspective in unexpected, thought-provoking, and engaging ways. Show us how you see the world—because every perspective matters.
Steps to Apply
2. Submit an application via google doc, HERE
3. Submit entry fees via sanramonrecguide.com, HERE
Application deadline: March 23, 2025
2025 Juror: Aqsa Shakil
Aqsa Shakil attended the prestigious National College of Arts in Lahore, Pakistan, receiving a full scholarship. In 2002 she moved to the U.S. and continued undergraduate studies in Arts and Performance at the University of Texas at Dallas, receiving the Jonelle and Bryce Jordan Scholarship for the Arts, graduating Summa Cum Laude in 2005. She attended Meadows School of Art at SMU on full scholarship. She was the first graduate student at the Juvenal Reis Residency in New York City where she helped initiate a now fully funded SMU month-long residency. She has received numerous awards, including the Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Award at the Dallas Museum of Art in 2006. Following her ‘break out’ solo show at Oliver Kamm Gallery NYC, and write-up by art critic Jerry Saltz, she has been actively showing in Dallas, Los Angeles, San Diego, Vermont, New Mexico, London, and has had two recent solo shows in Pakistan. Her new work is from her residency in France last year at Chateau Orquevaux. Her work is heavily influenced by travel. Having been rooted, un-rooted and re-rooted from Tanzania, to Lahore, to Dallas, and now San Francisco, she has acquired an obsession for tracing every slipping moment. These moments, along with old photos of people and places meticulously painted in, are submerged in memory pockets invested into vast atmospheric spaces with random splatters of precipitation. In her new work the characters have become more abstract, and taken the shape of circles gilded with gold-leaf. Their placement tells a story of interaction and relationships.
ANNUAL CALL FOR ART GALLERY EXHIBIT APPLICATIONS - Applications for 2025 are closed