POST SURREALISM.

Author: Duncan, Michael
Country: California
Language: English
Year Published: 2002
No. of pages: 48
Illustrations: 26 Color Illustrations. 15 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 11”x 8 1/2”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN:
Biblio/Bio: Cat. of exh.
Code: 7135

Price: $29.50

Although small, in number, the pre-World War II West Coast Modernist community as far from provincial. Then, like today, artists who lived outside art world power bases were capable of making work that addressed the most challenging ideas of their time. Post Surrealism- a homegrown movement originated in the early 1930’s by Los angeles artists Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lunderberg- was a sophisticed, intellectual reaction to Surrealism, made at a time when the European-based movement was barely known in this country. The Post Surrealists crea†ed symbolic tableaux based not on random dream imagery but on conscious, rational associations. This exhibition= the first in depth re-examination of the fledgling movement-builds on the 1995 survey, Pacific Dreams: Currents of Surrealism and Fantasy in California Art, 1934-1959. Besides key paintings by Feitelson and Lunderberg, included here are works by San Francisco artist Lucien Labaudt and Los angeles painters Knud Merrild, Grace Clements, Harold Lehman, Reuben Kadish, and Philip Guston( Goldstein). Selected alos are two painting by the enigmatic Ben Berlin.

PRESTON, ASTRID. Near Paradise

Author:
Country: California
Language: English
Year Published: 1987
No. of pages: 20
Illustrations: 7 Color Illustrations. 5 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 8 1/2”x 10”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN:
Biblio/Bio: Bibl. Bio. Cat. of exh.
Code: 6288

Price: $14.50

Preston, Astrid: READ FOREST.

Author: Domokos, Johanna
Country: Romania
Language: English/German/Hungarian
Year Published: 2004
No. of pages: 47
Illustrations: 6 Color Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound
Size: 9 1/2”x 6 1/2”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 9529796444
Biblio/Bio: Bio. Index.
Code: 5491

Price: $15.00

Astrid Preston (b. 1945 in S eden) is a painter who lives and works in Santa Monica, California. Her work is mostly landscapes, very exact and realistic work and very intriguing and ingeresting like a forest of trees maybe with leaves, maybe without or one tree, where you see every leaf or hummingbirds flying in the air. The poetic text by Johanna Domokos relates to nature and the illustrations.

PRESTON, ASTRID; ON REFLECTIONS. Recent Paintings, March 7 - April 11, 2015

Author: Preston, Astrid, Robert L. Pincus
Country: California
Language: English
Year Published: 2015
No. of pages: 50
Illustrations: 51 Color Illustrations. 0 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 10”x 8”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 9780692369180
Biblio/Bio: Bios. Cat. of exh.
Code: 6594

Price: $20.00

Astrid Preston’s work is testament to the idea that landscapes do not exist in nature, but only in the mind’s eye. While her images employ elements of place, they are also reconstructions that manifest personal perspectives or conceptual themes. On Reflections, the title of Preston’s new group of paintings, refers to her subject matter, but also suggests her cerebral processing and interpretation of nature.The ponds at Descanso Gardens in Southern California and Monet’s garden at Giverny, France, serve as inspiration to her meditations. In fact, these gardens and the idea of gardens in general are aesthetic re-creations, idyllic ideals, the Plato’s Cave of nature. Within the artifice of a garden, Preston has chosen to focus on reflections, not the trees and plants themselves, but shimmering mirror images of them - the other side of the mirror; the reality that we construct in our minds.

RAGNA ROBERTSDOTTIR.

Author: Photos by Johanna Olafsdottir
Country: Iceland
Language: English
Year Published:
No. of pages: 20
Illustrations: 0 Color Illustrations. 9 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 8”x 11 1/2”
Weight: 0.00
ISBN: none
Biblio/Bio: Cat. of exh. Bio.
Code: 6276

Price: $19.50