DATES + TIMES
July 25 ⎻ August 22, 2026
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 25, 7 – 9 pm
Online Artist Talk: Thursday, Aug 13, 7- 8 pm PDT
Curatorial Tour: Sunday, Aug 16, 1:30- 3:30 pm

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

DESCRIPTION
GREEN is an exhibition that explores the myriad expressions conjured by this single word—its colors, concepts, contradictions, and cultural weight.

Green is the color of nature: grass, leaves, renewal, and growth. It is also the color of money, graft, avarice, and desire. Green can signify healing and vitality, but also disease, envy, and unease. It is the hue of photosynthesis, innocence, and emotional rebirth. It is energy, lifestyle, and possibility.

In this exhibition, artists interpret GREEN in ways that are literal, symbolic, or metaphorical. Works explore environmental themes such as landscapes, ecological cycles, sustainability, climate change, or green energy; cultural and social associations referencing money, capitalism, greed, or movements tied to “green” ideals; emotional and psychological states portraying envy, or renewal, innocence, nostalgia, and healing; material explorations through the use of green pigments, recycled or “green” materials, or layered textures that evoke growth and decay; or conceptual approaches with abstract meditations on color, immersive works that dissolve boundaries between viewer and environment, or playful takes on the word itself.

GREEN is being jointly presented jointly by NCWCA and Arc Gallery, juried by JD Beltran, the co-founder of Art + Water gallery in San Francisco.