For NADA Miami, Madeleine Ray Hines scales a single hyper-detailed image across the booth’s central wall: the magnified tread of a pair of high heels sourced from a luxury resale platform. Merging acute observational rigor with an indexical and quasi-expressionist gesturalism, the icy precision of Hines’ painting coalesces a meditation on shifting economies of touch; resale markets and the aesthetics of wear; aura and fetish; the glassy surfaces of the screen, the vitrine, and the human intimacies they displace—a chilling imprint and corollary to the pursuit of desire in Kavan’s advisory narrativity.

Madeleine Ray Hines (b. 1988, Chicago) lives and works in New York. She received her MFA from New York Academy of Art, New York, in 2014 and her BA from Boston College in 2010. Solo presentations: “As Is,” Tara Downs, New York (2025); “Residuals,” Cheremoya, Los Angeles (2025); “The Loved Object,” Situations, Catskills (2023). Selected group exhibitions: “NADA Miami” with Cheremoya, Miami (2025); “NADA Miami,” with Tara Downs, Miami (2025); “As beautiful as a chance encounter with a sewing machine,” curated by Cecilia Salama, Hesse Flatow, New York (2025); “Greed,” GDL525, Amsterdam (2025); “Manic Pixie Nightmare Drawings,” curated by Sedrick Chisom, Adler Beatty, New York (2024); “The Same Room,” curated by Brunette Coleman, Shoot the Lobster, New York (2023); “Summer Exhibition,” Alyssa Davis Gallery, New York (2023); “Family Style,” Situations, New York (2023); “Friends with Benefits,” Estrella Gallery, New York (2022); “The Last Day of Disco,” Restaurant Projects, New York (2022); “Onder,” Diez Gallery, Amsterdam (2022).