Gallery 1337 is our flagship gallery at the heart of Art Works Downtown. Facing Fourth Street and serving as the main entrance, Gallery 1337 showcases an ever-changing mix of traditional, contemporary, and cutting-edge art by a diversity of Bay Area artists. Visitors encounter dynamic group shows, high-concept exhibits, and thought-provoking themes that reflect the pulse of today’s art scene.

Upcoming Exhibits
Love

Abstraction

Gallery 1337


November 21, 2025–January 24, 2026: Exhibition Dates
December 12 and January 9, 5–8 pm: Reception & 2nd Friday Art Walk

The Art of Giving Small Works Exhibit 2025

Molly Blauvelt, Cake, 2024, low fire clay and glazes
Joanna Kidd, Pensive Crow, 2024 stone lithograph

Molly Blauvelt, Cake, 2024, low fire clay and glazes

Joanna Kidd, Pensive Crow, 2024 stone lithograph

Experience over 80 unique artworks by talented Bay Area artists, each piece offering the perfect opportunity for a meaningful holiday gift or an inspiring addition to your collection. This exhibit is free and open to the public.

Artists
Erika Adkins, Megan Kaple Afansey, Leah Anton, Heather Austin-Weir, Steve Barbaria, Bonnie Barrett, Annie Bates-Winship, Barry Beach, Dee Bell, Jo Ann Biagini, Adrienne Biggs, Molly Blauvelt, Lisa Brussell, Tamara Buck, Jan Buscho, Joe Ceballos, Heather Davis, Sarah DeParis, Amber DeSilva, Licita Fernández, Sandi Goldstein, Wenqing Gu, Corazon Guzman-Thornton, Fay Helfer, Flo Hodes, Susie Kelly, Joanna Kidd, Mara Lantz, Linda Lieberman, Hargun Mann, Oola Mar, Gary Marsh, Beverly Mayeri, Ann Mayse, Qing Miao, Gail Morrison, John Andrew Murphy, Emmanuelle Namont, Mary Nelson, Patti Oji, Cindy Ostroff, Karen Palamos, Cindy Pavlinac, Jaime Robles, Jane Russell, Michael Scherotter, Mary Sheft, Kevin Smith, Dobee Snowber, Betsy Spencer Judge, Alice Stewart, Maria Tuttle, Victoria Veedell, Rebecca Wallerstein, Katherine Warinner, Sue Weil, Kathryn Whitten, Christina Williams, Tom Wornson, Jun Yan, Enric Zappa

Jurors
Tara Esperanza and Andrea Guskin, Artist Curators, Mercury 20

Jurors’ Statement
“This exhibition celebrates the delicate intersection of magic, movement, nature, and light. It's where the ephemeral becomes tangible through artistic vision. Each small work invites the viewer to slow down and notice the quiet transformations that often pass unseen. The selected pieces shimmer with an inner vitality, capturing fleeting moments of wonder that reveal how beauty often resides in impermanence. Together, they create a luminous dialogue between the seen and the felt. A gentle spell cast through art.” — Tara Esperanza and Andrea Guskin


Call for Entries due: January 8, 2025

Love

Theme: Love welcomes artwork that centers on the positive, life-affirming qualities of loving and experiencing love. Artists might consider attributes such as affection, care, belonging, harmony, gratitude, or shared presence. Romantic, familial, communal, or self-directed love may all be explored — with an emphasis on positive resonance.


Call for Entries due: January 8, 2025

Call for Entries: Abstraction

Apply by: March 1, 2026
Apply through: 
Call for Entries.org

Theme:
This exhibition explores abstraction as a mode of visual thinking. From non-representational form to works that depart from observed reality, abstraction has long served as a site of experimentation, resistance, and reinvention. Artists are invited to submit work that engages abstraction formally, materially, or conceptually—through color, gesture, structure, pattern, process, or reduction. All media are welcome, and interpretations may range from subtle to overt, intuitive to systematic.

Juror: 
Kim Eagles-Smith; owner director, Kim Eagles-Smith Gallery 

Artwork Requirements (abbreviated):

  • You must live in the SF Bay Area.

  • Open to all visual arts media.

  • Original artwork only.

  • Submissions must not have previously exhibited in Gallery 1337.

  • Artwork must be for sale. 

Application fee: $40 for up to 3 entries. $20 for AWD members. 

Exhibit Schedule

  • April 3–May 22, 2026: Exhibit Dates

  • March 1: Entries due via CallForEntry.org before 11:59pm PST

  • March 5–6: Notification of results by email

  • March 25–28, 11–4pm: Deliver artwork

  • April 10, May 8: Receptions

  • May 27–30: Pick up artwork

Apply through: Call for Entries.org