JDJ is thrilled to participate in Dallas Art Fair 2023 with a two-artist booth featuring Sharon Madanes and Jamie Gray Williams.

Sharon Madanes transforms banalities of medical settings into bold, highly saturated scenes.

Her paintings are often meditations on experiences she draws from her everyday life, as Madanes is a full-time doctor in addition to being an artist. Some paintings depict scenes of contemplation. At the other end of the spectrum, others depict a tangle of bodies, limbs coming from all directions, intertwined to evoke a sense of physical restraint. Her formal approach to painting varies from picture to picture, sometimes creating a feeling of solidity, and others a loose brushstroke that dissolves figures into their surroundings.

Working primarily in painting and drawing, Jamie Gray Williams utilizes fantasy and humor to explore questions about inter-subjective limits and the complex relationships of mind and body, imagination and reality, self and others.

Her wild, expressive and often humorous oil and acrylic paintings possess a canny energy and fluidity, beginning life as intuitively conjured drawings. Her work opens our eyes to a kind of physical theater, where our existence with and within the human body is exposed as an absurd and curious psychological experience. ⁠

Sharon Madanes (b.1985, Chicago, IL, lives and works in New York, NY) received a BA from Yale University, New Haven, an MFA from Hunter College, New York, and attended medical school at Columbia University, New York. Madanes has received several awards and residencies, including the Rema Hort Mann Foundation, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the Shendaken Paint School and the Seymour Lustman prize. Her work is currently on view at Perrotin, Paris, and has recently been exhibited at Taymour Grahne, London, The Drawing Center, New York and Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY, among others.

Jamie Gray Williams (b. 1989, Indiana, lives and works in Philadelphia, PA) received her MFA from Rutgers University in 2017 and was in residence at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2015. Her work has recently been exhibited at Venus Over Manhattan, Marvin Gardens, and Selena's Mountain, all New York, NY, and PMAM, London. Williams will have her debut solo exhibition with JDJ in November 2023.