Season Fair Announces Detroit Presents Featuring Ten Leading Artists

A new curatorial platform at Season Fair spotlighting ten Detroit-based artists whose practices reflect the depth, complexity, and cultural force of the city’s contemporary art landscape.

Detroit, MI — August 7, 2025 – Season Fair, Detroit’s premier contemporary art fair, is pleased to announce the inaugural edition of Detroit Presents, a curated exhibition platform highlighting the city’s most compelling and influential artistic voices. On view from September 25–28, 2025, at Michigan Central, Detroit Presents affirms the fair’s commitment to supporting local talent within an international contemporary art framework.

This year’s cohort comprises ten exceptional artists whose practices span photography, painting, installation, and experimental design. Each brings a distinct approach to the urgent questions shaping contemporary art and culture.

“Detroit Presents is not a sidebar—it is central to the mission of Season Fair,” said Amani Olu, Founder and Artistic Director. “These artists are defining what’s next in contemporary art. Their practices are conceptually rigorous, materially ambitious, and deeply rooted in place. This is Detroit at its most compelling—uncompromising, visionary, and globally relevant.”

All artwork is available for sale.

Featured Artists

• James Adams presents Best Accompanied with Jazz, a powerful series of black-and-white medium format portraits that channel the quiet gravity of 1950s and ’60s jazz legends. Centering Black men in grief, the work captures memory and absence with arresting emotional clarity.

• Martyna Alexander presents works from her solo exhibition The Distant Now, alongside new paintings that expand on the series. Informed by inherited memory and ecological intimacy, her presentation examines fractured relationships to habitat and the potential for renewed connection. Interwoven with natural ephemera sourced from Detroit’s landscape, the installation gestures toward the fragility and persistence of communal ecology.

• Amna Asghar proposes a bold installation of paintings and vinyl-wrapped walls, merging personal archives with vibrant cultural references. Her layered visual language draws from Pakistani digest magazines, pop ephemera, and atmospheric skyscapes, inviting viewers into the studio’s inner workings.

• black helmut, a multidisciplinary collective, will present an immersive installation combining experimental products, personal practices, and site-specific works. Their presentation critiques algorithmic aesthetics and imagines new intersections of art, design, and digital culture.

• Cydney Camp explores Black femininity, mythology, and the Black Venus archetype through intimate new paintings. Her work challenges traditional beauty standards and engages the history of European easel painting with a contemporary, defiant gaze.

• Louise Jones offers recent paintings based on her own moments of discovery living in the Midwest. With a deadpan sensibility and technical precision, she manifests potent cultural experiences and artifacts that resist both sentimentality and critique.

• Jaime Pattison presents Securities, a conceptual series that dissects the architecture of power through painting and 3D digital construction. Referencing historical financial institutions in Detroit and Chicago, the work interrogates systems of mediation, authorship, and control.

• Chris Pinter introduces Sillage, a body of abstract paintings that register the lingering physicality of fear. Operating like slow, tactile scans, these works leverage gesture, restraint, and scale to build a field of perception suspended between seeing and feeling.

• Daniel Ribar revisits the overlooked material culture of suburban youth—bike skid marks, firework burns, dented drywall—as painterly marks loaded with memory and meaning. His work collapses the divide between accident and intention, offering quiet revelations through the familiar.

• Jamea Richmond-Edwards will present Naga, a large-scale self-portrait and series of miniatures inspired by the divine serpent deities known as Nagas in Hindu and Buddhist mythology. These half-human, half-serpent beings symbolize transformation, mysticism, and hidden power. Through this work, Richmond-Edwards asserts her presence within a spiritual lineage, merging personal identity with ancestral cosmology.

Location:

Michigan Central
2001 15th Street
Detroit, MI 48216

Fair Hours:

• Thursday, September 25: VIP Preview, 4 – 8 p.m.

• Friday, September 26: 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.

• Saturday, September 27: 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.

• Sunday, September 28: 12 – 6 p.m.

About Season Fair

Season is part exhibition, part commercial art fair, featuring leading galleries alongside Detroit's most promising artists.

Our mission is three-fold:

• Cultivate a dynamic marketplace for contemporary art, connecting world-class artists and exhibitors with collectors at every level—whether new, established, or emerging.

• Provide a powerful platform for Detroit-based artists to connect with influential collectors, curators, galleries, and art critics representing the broader art world.

• Support exceptional local galleries priced out of traditional art fair participation.

Season Fair traces its roots to Detroit Art Week, a citywide initiative launched in 2018 to celebrate Detroit-based contemporary artists, galleries, and cultural institutions. Organized by Detroit Art Week, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and produced by Olu & Company, the program presented two acclaimed editions in 2018 and 2019. While public programming has since concluded, its mission—to advance equity and access in the arts—lives on through a fundraising partnership with Season Fair.