Newly installed in the viewing room, Myles Bennett and Minako Iwamura's recent paintings offer two complimentary approaches to abstraction.

Using the grain of the canvas as his guide, Myles Bennett (b. 1983) 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.

In Cut waves 9, 2024, Bennett deconstructs the dyed section of raw canvas, leaving the horizontal threads of its weft as a transparent plane that interacts with an underpainting below its surface. The process results in a painting that exists not on top of the canvas, but within its very structure.

JDJ will highlight Myles Bennett's work in a solo presentation at The armory show, New York this September.

The paintings of Minako Iwamura (b. 1967) 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.

One of Iwamura's most recent works, Urchin, 2025, brings together biomorphic forms rendered in a soft, shifting palette, with a layer of gossamer-thin lines of fine white charcoal on top of its surface.

Minako Iwamura will have a solo show at JDJ in Spring 2026.