“les choses mortes: Mija Jung and Gabrielle H. Weiss” Now On View at The Yard, Williamsburg Bridge

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Curator Audra Lambert presents artworks by painters Mija Jung and Gabrielle H. Weiss in les choses mortes, the newest exhibition produced by ANTE on view at The Yard, Williamsburg Bridge in Brooklyn. Opening on Wednesday, February 16 from 6-8:30 pm, the exhibition presents a contemporary take on the links between abstraction and still life painting in the post-digital age. Painterly abstraction blends with muted color palettes throughout the exhibition, with viewers invited to form their own associations between the abstracted elements and inanimate objects, or ‘dead things,’ depicted in these scenes. Questions arise as to the significance of our environments and the colors and forms that distinguish them. In “Where You Sit,” Gabrielle H. Weiss produces a delicate composition featuring an interior: a tableau built gradually by thin layers of paint. Surfaces blend into one another, with objects seemingly hovering above or around the surfaces depicted in the composition. Shadows and rays of light are ambiguous, resulting in a scene both emotionally charged yet alienating.