ARC GALLERY
SURFACE TENSION

DATES + TIMES
February 28⎻ April 4, 2026
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 28th, 7 – 9 pm

LOCATION
​Arc Gallery & Studios
1246 Folsom Street
San Francisco, CA 94103

DESCRIPTION
Nine contemporary artists, with curator Karen M. Gutfreund—explore how meaning emerges through layers of material, memory, and language. Working across sculpture, photography, painting, and mixed media, they share a fluency in text and subtext, reflection and shape, mystery and emotional nuance. Through immersive storytelling, the work dissolves boundaries between viewer, subject, and landscape—inviting us to read between the lines and feel the tension beneath the gloss. Meaning flickers between what is said, what is shown, and what is felt—surfacing in bold declarations, whispered narratives, and the quiet shimmer of lived experience. Featured Artists: Liz Bloomfield, Natalya Burd, Karen M. Gutfreund, Sherry Karver, Lisa Marie Kwesell, Lucky Rapp and Jeannine Henebry (collaboration), Jenny Reinhardt, Sawyer Rose, and ZaHaVa Sherez.

Resin artwork collaboration between Lucky Rapp and Jeannine Henebry titled "surface tension"