PLAYGROUND DETROIT participated in the 19th edition of the Hamptons Fine Art Fair (Jul 10 – Jul 13, 2025), in Southampton, New York — one of the most vibrant gatherings of the East End contemporary art scene, bringing together galleries from around the world and an engaged community of collectors and art enthusiasts.
Presenting works by Martyna Alexander, Dustin Cook, and Julian Jamaal Jones, the gallery highlighted the dialogue between color, form, and aesthetic within each artist’s practice, creating a cohesive and visually compelling presentation that resonated with the fair’s international and plural spirit.
Although each artist has a very unique approach and practice, shown alongside one another, their work speaks to each other in a cohesive and effortless conversation about color, form and aesthetic.” – Curator & Gallery Director, Paulina Petkoski
This participation reinforced PLAYGROUND DETROIT’s role as a bridge between the Detroit art scene and the global circuit, expanding the reach of its represented artists and reaffirming the gallery’s commitment to promoting new voices in contemporary art.
Curator Artwork Highlights
Featured Artists
Martyna Alexander
Martyna Alexander’s practice and paintings are where rigid forms and free gestures meet. Her process is a balancing act between control and spontaneity — much like living between cultures, ideas, and clashing expectations.
Her art questions how we remain imperfect in a world that insists on perfection. And how, perhaps, it’s in that friction that something true begins to emerge.
Dustin Cook
Dustin Cook lives and works in Detroit. His abstract paintings explore color, energy, and the dialogue between form and atmosphere.
Guided by intuition and precision, he builds rhythmic compositions of clean lines and geometry — images that seem to pulse with life, inviting both contemplation and wonder.
Julian Jamaal Jones
Julian Jamaal Jones stitches past and present into vibrant compositions. His process begins on paper, with pastel drawings — intuitive marks that later take shape on fabric.
Rooted in the African American quilting tradition, his work challenges visual expectations and opens space for new ways of storytelling, marked by freedom and strength.
