Astrid Preston's new paintings continue her decades-long exploration of the fundamental issues of perception, particularly with regard to landscape. As beauty and landscape are both mental constructs that do not actually exist in Nature, Preston’s work is about that middle ground, the metaphysical landscape where components of a scene are distilled into abstractions, signifiers, and symbols. In her previous exhibition, Preston explored breaking down her landscapes using both textured and flat marks resembling pixels, highlighting and questioning the components that define our perception of space and light. While recently preparing her archives, Preston reviewed her 45-year-old pencil drawings that constructed landscapes with thin horizontal lines. In her new paintings, she applies similar lines, and white grids, to suggest bands of light that obscure and emphasize the beauty of a scene. The artist refers to these elements as "disruptions", which simultaneously reinforce the abstract flatness of the picture plane, and suggest a screen through which we are viewing the image: an illusory distance.