Meet Our Jurors
Eugenie Hsu
Since she began drawing and painting in 2022, Eugenie has developed an intense enjoyment for making art and wanted to leverage the visual arts similarly to how she used music to build community in her other local projects, Albany COVIDchella and Albany Move’n’Groove. Combining her work as a clinical psychologist and her passion for art and community-building, Eugenie wanted to provide an artistic platform where individuals could be seen and heard through artistic expression so she created and curated Seen&Heard in 2024. As a new artist, Eugenie has had her paintings exhibited in group shows at the deYoung Open 2023, Richmond Art Center, Belvedere-Tiburon Library Gallery, and Sebastopol Center for the Arts. Eugenie has a semi-solo show of her oil paintings entitled “On and Off the Avenue” on view at the Albany Community Center Foyer Gallery from January 25-April 17, 2025.
Robert Abrams
Robert, owner and curator of Abrams Claghorn Gallery, is a lifelong resident of the East Bay, minus a few formidable years spent working in his family’s business, Sam Ash Music, located in New York City. In 1993, while still in New York, Abrams began his art practice. He currently shows his artwork at Room Art Gallery in Mill Valley, CA, Turtle & Hare in Downtown Oakland, CA, and exhibits regularly in solo and group shows in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. Robert is a part owner of the Potters’ Studio in Berkeley, sits on the Solano Avenue Association board, and teaches at Laney College and at the Mill Valley Potters Studio. His latest venture is a small teaching studio in El Cerrito, CA called MudWorks Pottery.
