Harper’s is pleased to present 36 paintings, a group exhibition bringing together works by more than forty contemporary artists at its East Hampton location. On view from July 3 through August 5, 2026, the exhibition offers a concentrated survey of current approaches to painting, highlighting the medium’s continued vitality, diversity, and capacity for reinvention.

Rather than proposing a single thematic framework, 36 paintings embraces plurality. The exhibition assembles artists working across a wide range of visual languages, from figuration and landscape to abstraction and conceptual image-making. Together, the works reveal how painting remains a site of experimentation where personal narratives, cultural references, material investigations, and formal concerns intersect.

Installed throughout the gallery, the exhibition encourages unexpected dialogues between generations, sensibilities, and artistic methodologies. Individual works maintain their autonomy while contributing to a broader conversation about the possibilities of the painted image today. Shifts in scale, color, texture, and subject matter create a dynamic rhythm that invites viewers to move between intimate observation and collective comparison.

At a moment when images circulate with unprecedented speed, 36 paintings reaffirms the distinctive experience of encountering painting in person. The exhibition foregrounds the material presence of the medium and the singular decisions embedded within each work, offering a snapshot of contemporary painting as an expansive and continually evolving field.