ATM Gallery NYC is pleased to present “Heavy Enough to Sink”, a solo exhibition of twenty-one drawings and two paintings by Jess Valice. Born 1996 in San Fernando Valley, California, Valice initially studied and pursued a career in Biopsychology. Eventually her long-running interest and meditation on humans and our ways of self-expression found form in portraits. Inspired by the emotionally exhausting journey of contemporary culture—filled with inspirations in online forums or California cowboys; mass-produced cultural objects or Old Master paintings—Valice creates unique and enigmatic figures who are simultaneously impenetrable and relatable in the same moment. ​