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Surface Tension

Ten contemporary women artists 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
 
Exhibition hosted at Arc Gallery & Studios, San Francisco,  February 28 – April 4, 2026