Chozick Family Art Gallery & JDJ
NADA New York 2026 | Booth B3
May 13 - 17, 2026
For NADA New York 2026, Chozick Family Art Gallery and JDJ are thrilled to announce a joint presentation that reflects the collaborative model at the heart of our partnership in Tribeca. Although we run our respective galleries independently, we share a physical gallery space, rotating shows on a monthly basis. This arrangement is grounded in mutual support, resource
sharing, and a belief that galleries can do more for artists when we work collectively. Throughout the week, our presentation will focus on a rotating selection of significant works by artists from both of our galleries, interspersed into a single, multigenerational installation, emphasizing crosscurrents seen throughout our programs.
Highlights include new textile paintings by Puerto Rican artist Sofía del Mar Collins (Chozick) created during her recent residency at El Espacio 23 in Miami. Collins’ practice grows from an interest in fragmented memory, Caribbean histories, and the instability of narrative; this new work draws the viewer into her shifting, psychologically charged spaces. A deconstructed painting by Myles Bennett (JDJ) offers a compelling counterpoint. Working directly with raw canvas, Bennett stains both sides with ink to build soft gradients of color, then carefully cuts and pulls threads from its surface. The result moves between painting and object, with color, light, and space shifting across and through the work.Susan Weil (JDJ) draws on decades of experimentation—which hasn’t stopped, despite being 96 years old. This presentation will highlight her Paper Crumples series from the 1980s, which transform the surface itself—folded, bent, and shaped so that painting becomes both image and object. Color and form merge in low relief, as the material registers gesture and movement, echoing her enduring interest in time, space, and the body’s presence. These ideas are also examined by Avery Z. Nelson (Chozick) whose large-scale painting recalls somatic memories and the experience of inhabiting a body.
Artists KB Jones (Chozick) and Heather Guertin (JDJ) will each present new paintings grounded in observation. Jones’ work places viewers on a subway platform where plein-air intimacy meets stylized graphic mark-making; her interest lies in systems of hierarchy and how perspective shapes belonging in public space. Paintings by Heather Guertin begin with collaged fragments from images found in discarded library books, which she translates into graphite drawings and, ultimately, dense, allover abstractions. Forms press edge to edge, as color, pattern, and texture interlock in a continuous field. Bold contrasts and layered markmaking create a sense of movement and tension, transforming disparate sources into vivid, tightly woven compositions.
Our booth also features a special suite of colored pencil drawings by Christopher Paz-Rivera (Chozick) installed. Here the artist renders image stills from news media reports depicting three instances when the Puerto Rican flag was placed on the Statue of Liberty. The first is from 1977 in an action led by activist Chino, calling for the release of Puerto Rican political prisoners. The second, from the early 2000s, when Tito Kayak climbed the statue during a protest against the U.S. Navy’s exercises in Vieques. The third is from the music video for NUEVAYoL by Bad Bunny. Paz-Rivera also presents a drawing of his father in the Bronx, in the artist’s classic diaristic style which draws from his daily life in San Juan, family photographs, and visual memory.
This installation is balanced by a grid of six watercolor paintings by Julia Felsenthal (JDJ). Felsenthal draws upon close observation of the ocean near her Cape Cod studio, offering quiet meditations on the meeting of sky and sea. Within simple, restrained compositions, her dense watercolor marks capture shifting light and atmosphere, holding fleeting moments in tension between careful record and emotional reflection.This investigation of landscape reverberates in new ceramic sculptures by Erica Mao (Chozick) whose concurrent solo exhibition Wading Through Time is on view at the gallery through May 30, 2026.
A new painting by Bea Scaccia (JDJ) depicts a figure enmeshed in elaborate ornament and costume; its hair, accessories, and decorative excess become almost consuming forces. Scaccia's images hover between beauty and unease, using exaggeration and theatrical detail to unsettle fixed ideas of identity and femininity.
We will also present new works from Andrea McGinty’s (Chozick) seed catalogue collage series. McGinty will also premier a new piece titled Investment as a part of the fair’s sculpture sector. Investment is a found-object sculpture made from a stack of over 120 egg cartons collected through regular use over several years. Arched like a bridge, and hovering low to the ground, it’s adorned with small trinkets of daily life. The seemingly mundane objects find balance as universally recognizable symbols while holding private personal significance. Precariously perched together, they create a humble marker of time, tracing a path through the artist’s past.
On view for the first time at an art fair are paintings from the 1970s and 1980s by Adrianne Wortzel (JDJ). The 85-year old New York-based artist will have her debut exhibition with JDJ this summer. Wortzel’s paintings reflect her long engagement with technology and perception. Built from countless small marks, their geometric forms shift between clarity and fragmentation—
resolving into space at a distance and dissolving up close.
Finally, we are thrilled to present sculptural works by multidisciplinary artist Ann Messner from the 1990s and early 2000s. Messner has explored the relationship between the individual body and the body politic over the course of her five decade career. Through sculpture, installation, performance, film/video and guerilla-style public intervention, Messner has continually tested thepliability of the social contract and examined the faultlines between collective and self-consciousness. This inclusion o!ers a preview to an upcoming solo presentation of Messner’s workat the gallery in Tribeca, June 2027. Messner’s first solo presentation since the 1990s, the exhibition will be a collaboration between Chozick Family Art Gallery, JDJ, and Davila-Villa & Stothart.
For more information contact rebekah@chozickfamilyartgallery.com & jayne@jdj.world
