AACC’s 2026 National Juried Art Exhibition | Opening Reception

DATES: April 28 — July 14, 2026 

OPENING RECEPTION: April 29, 5 — 7 pm with juror remarks at 6 pm.

“Nature’s first green is gold.” — Robert Frost

“It’s not easy being green.” — Kermit the Frog

Join us for Cade Art Gallery’s 2026 National Juried Art Exhibition, Green,juried by New York based art historian and curator, Roberto C. Ferrari. Featuring a range of artworks in painting, sculpture, ceramics, textiles, printmaking, photography, and video, the exhibition asks us to consider how this hue and its saturation and values appeal to the senses, and how Green can address issues as far-ranging as nature and health, to politics and religion. Green can also be represented in its most abstract form, and the absence of Green can be as important as its presence.

Oak leaves waving from the limbs of a tree, grass underfoot, pine needles glistening with dew. Green is nature, the flora that grows from the earth, nourished by sunlight and fed by rain. Parsley, sage, thyme. Green is an herbaceous taste that tingles the tongue with savor. A combination of blue and yellow, a complement of red. Green is a secondary hue that has permeated the history of painting: Mrs. Arnolfini’s enveloping gown; the forests of Poussin and the waterlilies of Monet; Matisse’s stripe of a shadow and Kelly’s purist field of color; Van Gogh’s anxious landscapes and Salman Toor’s queer acidic spaces. Camouflage: protection or aggression? Verdigris: decay or patination? Phlegm, mold, corrosion. Green is organic and sickly, a sign of the need for a cure. Patriotism, eco-nationalism, spirituality. Green is a symbol in the hearts and minds of the People. Celadon, emerald, moss. Green is style and sophistication.

ARTISTS ON VIEW IN GREEN:

Joshua Able-Carter, Abol Bahadori, Lisa Battle, Graig Bracey, Patricia Buck, Keith Buswell, Eva Carson, Gerard Dalbon, Ben Dimock, Janessa Douds, Ruth Douzinas, Carol Foerster, Robert Forte, Thomas Gisriel,  Kristine Goldenberg, Ryan Graham, Yen Ha, Carlos Hidalgo, Alexis Irby, Sumin Joo, Moritz Kellerman, Clover Kemp, Stacy Leeman, Joan Lesikin, Jaden La Rocque, Xi Liu, Daniele Lorio, Susan MacDonald, Beau McCall, Chayel Moses, Nolan Noble, Ali Osborn, Vince Quevedo, Kylie Robinson, Eleazar Sanchez, Dandora Sillah, Gloria Solomon, Ann Stoddard, Susanne Tierney, Kathleen Thompson, Barbara Wallace, Scrap Wrenn.

ABOUT THE JUROR:

Roberto C. Ferrari is the Curator of Art Properties at Columbia University. He holds a Ph.D. in art history from the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and has worked at such prominent institutions as the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He is the guest curator, with Sophie Lynford, of the first US exhibition on the queer Jewish artist Simeon Solomon (1840–1905), scheduled to open at the Delaware Art Museum in 2027.

Join us for an opening reception and juror remarks on Wednesday, April 29, 5 – 7 pm. 

IMAGE IDENTIFICATIONS:

Vincent Quevedo
Nimble
2025
Quilt

Eleazar Sanchez
Converging Realities II
2025
Acrylic, gold leaf, 8ply board

Dandora Sillah
Rooted Relays
2024
Oil and acrylic

Scrap Wrenn
Old Kings Wonder
2022
Acrylic medium and paper original photographs on panel