JDJ is thrilled to participate in NADA New York 2022.

Exhibited artists include Heather Guertin, Sharon Madanes, and Bea Scaccia.

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

Her latest paintings begin with a series of collages she creates from the pages of scientific journals and magazines. Guertin uses them as a guide, translating the colors, textures, and forms from these images found in the natural world into a pictorial language that she develops to ecstatic and exuberant effect.

Sharon Madanes transforms banalities of hospital and medical settings into bold, highly saturated scenes. Her paintings are often meditations on experiences she draws from her everyday life, since Madanes is a full-time doctor in addition to being an artist.

Madanes’ paintings formally reflect many of her experiences in the care-giving industry: within her paintings and within her medical practice, Madanes encounters the body with a sense of fragmentation, treating a specific part or ailment without being able to focus on the whole. Her fascination with what's been omitted or left out leads her often to focus on states of transition or indeterminate space within her paintings.

Bea Scaccia creates characters and visual archetypes as a means to understand herself and others.

In these paintings, her characters disappears entirely, as it is engulfed by its finery: hair, jewels, lace, tassels, fur, ribbons and crystals are piled on top of each other to points of absurdity until they appear as creature-like monstrosities. These objects evoke a sense of laborious costume and style that is linked to traditional and stereotypical notions of feminine beauty, and take inspiration from her upbringing in a small town in southern Italy, where traditional gender roles are paramount, as well as from the genre of magical realism in all of its forms, from visual art, to cinema, literature, and commedia dell’arte.