For this year's iteration of NADA Miami, JDJ is thrilled to feature a group presentation with Myles Bennett, Julia Felsenthal, Heather Guertin, Minako Iwamura, Shawn Kuruneru, Barrow Parke, and Susan Weil.

Using the grain of the canvas as his guide, Myles Bennett explores its material capabilities in unique and innovative ways.

The resulting works, which incorporate ink, acrylic, graphite and colored pencil, blur the divisions between painting, drawing, textile, and sculpture, and embody a sense of space both within and beyond the two dimensional plane.

Julia Felsenthal is a painter and writer working in Brooklyn and Cape Cod.

At once rigidly simple in their compositional constraints and obsessively dense in their mark-making, Julia Felsenthal’s paintings toe a central fault-line: they celebrate and chronicle the protean nature of water and air while indulging and interrogating the all-too-human desire to halt time, to screenshot a view, or to crystallize the fleeting emotions we experience while viewing it.

Heather Guertin's paintings grounded in observation, and the sensibility that a deeply imaginative expression lies latent within it.

She uses found images, collaged together from discarded books, as the source material for her paintings. Her ability to find something special from what is overlooked is as much an integral part of her creative process as is her unique and energetic brushwork and her radiant use of color.

Minako Iwamura’s paintings combine curvilinear forms and subtle shifts in color to produce compositions that radiate a kind of energetic pulse.

Her interest lies in the exploration of dualities—geometry and nature, the singular and the collective, premeditated delineation and intuitive movement—and the slippage between them.

The free-flowing, organic shapes in Shawn Kuruneru’s paintings on raw canvas have a rhythmic, almost musical presence.

Kuruneru creates aqueous solutions of acrylic paint that function almost like watercolor, staining the material in precise forms that are visually offset by the negative space of the raw canvas. Despite their crisp edges, the forms are unplanned and free form, with each shape personal to his body.

The collaborative practice of New York-based artists Barrow Parke centers on the craft of weaving: its history, logic, and systems as well as its visual and tactile qualities.

They are well known for their intricate paintings on hand-woven and embroidered fabric, where painted threads interact with the color, texture and pattern of the woven surfaces.

Susan Weil’s quest for enchantment and delight within her artistic practice has been a clear source of inspiration since her days as a student under Josef Albers at Black Mountain College in the late 1940s.

Radical experimentation has been a cornerstone of her practice since the beginning, and it continues on as she continues to make new work at the age of 95. Shhh!, 2023, a sixteen-panel painting on linen, is exemplary of her non-objective painting practice: in this work, she uses opalescent and metallic paint to reflect light and the viewer's movement within space.