NEW YORK, NY.- Jenkins Johnson Gallery presents Trade Winds, a new group exhibition. Featuring a multigenerational selection of artists with wildly divergent practices, Trade Winds explores how contemporary art discourse is moving away from singular overwhelming trends and is instead fragmenting into a large number of concurrent and codominant threads which have their own space to succeed on their own terms.
Artdaily Recommended · Paid Link
Andre D. Wagner
A photography volume from the Gordon Parks Foundation
Explore Andre D. Wagner’s powerful street photography, capturing everyday life, community, movement, and contemporary American experience.
See it on Amazon → As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
For much of the 2020s, people have waited to determine what new central theme would dominate the contemporary art field: What comes next? Is abstraction back after the popular wave of figuration? Will photography shine where painting once dominated? The emerging reality in which we live suggests that there may not be a central theme at all, but instead, we may be in an epoch that is defined by its themelessness. The concurrent potential of seemingly oppositional standpoints—abstraction and representation, formalism and conceptualism, the emotive and the cognitive, the analytic and the intuitive, image-making and object-making—has created compelling new ground for critical engagement. These contrasting positions are not antagonistic to each other; they can coexist and succeed on their own terms.
Practices are no longer characterized as “following a trend” or “going against a trend,” but instead they simply are what they are. There’s no monolithic center around which everything else has relative distance. What might first appear to be contradiction is in reality the predominant atmosphere of our moment in contemporary art: multipolar, heterogenous, and self-determined freedom.
Each artist in the exhibition brings to the table a unique and unmistakable perspective, and the emerging relationships proposed through the exhibition further elucidate and celebrate those qualities.
Trade Winds opened Friday, June 26, 2026 and will be on view through August 19, 2026. During the run of the exhibition, the gallery will also have special extended hours on Wednesday, July 15, as part of the ADAA’s annual Summer Tribeca Gallery Walk.
The exhibition is on view at 385 Broadway, 3rd Floor, New York, NY in the new Tribeca space. This arrangement has been made possible through an innovative arrangement made with fellow ADAA member Marian Goodman Gallery.
