ARTFEED — Contemporary Art Intelligence

Trade Winds group exhibition at Jenkins Johnson Gallery explores themelessness in contemporary art

exhibition · 2026-06-27

Trade Winds, a group exhibition at Jenkins Johnson Gallery, showcases a diverse array of artists spanning multiple generations, each with unique approaches. This exhibition examines the shift in contemporary art discussions, which are increasingly diverging from singular trends to embrace multiple, coexisting narratives. It proposes that the defining characteristic of the 2020s might be the absence of a unifying theme, allowing abstraction, representation, formalism, and conceptualism to exist alongside one another.

Key facts

  • Jenkins Johnson Gallery presents Trade Winds
  • Group exhibition featuring multigenerational artists
  • Explores fragmentation of contemporary art discourse
  • Suggests themelessness as defining characteristic of 2020s
  • Includes abstraction, representation, formalism, conceptualism
  • Artists have wildly divergent practices
  • Exhibition challenges idea of singular trends
  • Concurrent threads succeed on their own terms

Entities

Institutions

  • Jenkins Johnson Gallery

Sources