Playing
A group exhibition curated by Marcus Jahmal with Zoë Argires, Katherine Bradford, Bianca Fields, Gerasimos Floratos, Lloyd Foster, Tamara Gonzales, Bendix Harms, David Humphrey, Marcus Jahmal, Char Jeré, Kiki Joyce, Little Walt Dog, Chris Martin, Abbott Stillman, Antonio Vidal, and Zach Wollard
Eighteen | August 21 – September 26, 2026
Playing
A group exhibition curated by Marcus Jahmal with Zoë Argires, Katherine Bradford, Bianca Fields, Gerasimos Floratos, Lloyd Foster, Tamara Gonzales, Bendix Harms, David Humphrey, Marcus Jahmal, Char Jeré, Kiki Joyce, Little Walt Dog, Chris Martin, Abbott Stillman, Antonio Vidal, and Zach Wollard
Eighteen | August 21 – September 26, 2026
Inspired by Philip Guston's assertion that "this serious play, which we call art, can't be static." Playing brings together sixteen artists committed to continual invention — building worlds only to dismantle and rebuild them again. The exhibition takes its cues from the spirit of the CoBrA movement, embracing spontaneity, intuition, primal gesture, folk traditions, art brut, and a resistance to allowing style to calcify into a fixed identity. The painters in Playing share CoBrA's sense of the studio as a site of experimentation, where instinct and imagination carry as much weight as intellect and where painting itself becomes a form of play. Collective energy, too, is central to the group's spirit here, bringing together artists whose individual visual languages exist in conversation with one another while remaining entirely their own. Across the exhibition, color, gesture, and mark-making become tools of discovery, revealing painters who remain deeply engaged in a dialogue with their inner child and unafraid to explore the unknown. Playing presents an eclectic group whose work is animated by movement, curiosity, invention, and the enduring possibility of magic.
—Text by Marcus Jahmal, New York City, summer 2026