Baert Gallery is pleased to announce Melinda Braathen's first solo exhibition with the gallery. In both her paintings and drawings, Braathen seamlessly transitions between elements of skillful figuration and vividly ambient abstraction. This blending of genres, traditions, and techniques imbues her work with a unique sensibility that melds close observation with theatricality and acute emotional attunement. Braathen’s work stills and materializes the flux of life’s constant becoming into a bodied abstraction of meditative paint swirled in masterful grooves of balanced coloration.