Having worked with Astrid Preston in the 1980s at Jan Turner Gallery, and then at Craig Krull Gallery since 1999, we have been on a meandering path together ...
During these last long months of trying to understand and express the feeling of my ungrounded quarantine existence, I have felt a compulsion to paint objects floating ...
Astrid Preston's new paintings continue her decades-long exploration of the fundamental issues of perception, particularly with regard to landscape.
What do painters manage to do when they paint water? Simply put, they take something in perennial flux and freeze that flux for our contemplation and delight.
What do painters manage to do when they paint water? Simply put, they take something in perennial flux and freeze that flux for our contemplation and delight...
Astrid Preston's work is always about the philosophy of perception, particularly with regard to beauty and nature. Is not beauty an abstract human concept that exists ...
"Los Angeles painter Astrid Preston has long explored and invented new frontiers of an aesthetic naturalism, elegantly remaking urban and rural wildness into...
Astrid Preston’s work is testament to the fact that landscapes do not exist in Nature but rather, only in the mind’s eye. While her images employ elements ...
Since her last exhibition at Craig Krull Gallery in 2010, Astrid Preston's work has traveled further than during any other period in her career. Entitled, New ...
Astrid Preston's paintings and drawings are grounded in the premise that a landscape is an abstract human construct based on our ability to mentally remove ourselves from ...
On May 17th, Craig Krull Gallery will open its sixth exhibition of paintings by Astrid Preston. Over the years, her work has addressed our dual relationship ...
