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.