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Solo Exhibitions

SOLO EXHIBITION

June 21 - July 12, 2025

SUMMER IN BLOOM
A FLORAL INTERPRETATION

Galerie DeArts | Santa Monica, CA

Galerie DeArts is having an exhibition of flower and bird paintings, a summer solstice celebration.

For The Trees Solo Exhibition

SOLO EXHIBITION

September 2 - October 14, 2023

FOR THE TREES

Craig Krull Gallery | Santa Monica, CA

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 ...

SOLO EXHIBITION

August 7 - September 11, 2021

BETWEEN WORLDS

Craig Krull Gallery | Santa Monica, CA

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 ...

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Between Worlds Solo Exhibition

Astrid Preston: New Paintings Solo Exhibition

SOLO EXHIBITION

December 7, 2019 - January 18, 2020

NEW PAINTINGS

Craig Krull Gallery | Santa Monica, CA

Astrid Preston's new paintings continue her decades-long exploration of the fundamental issues of perception, particularly with regard to landscape.

SOLO EXHIBITION

June 16 - July 14, 2018

ECHOING LIGHT

R.B. Stevenson Gallery | La Jolla, CA

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.

Echoing Light Solo Exhibition

Poetics of Nature Solo Exhibition

SOLO EXHIBITION

September 7, 2017 - April 14, 2018

POETICS OF NATURE

Bakersfield Museum of Art | Bakersfield CA

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...

SOLO EXHIBITION

October 21 - November 25, 2017

UPSIDE DOWN WORLD

Craig Krull Gallery | Santa Monica, CA

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 ...

Upside Down World Solo Exhibition

Into Nature Solo Exhibition

SOLO EXHIBITION

July 9 - August 13, 2016

INTO NATURE

R.B Stevenson Gallery | La Jolla, CA

"Los Angeles painter Astrid Preston has long explored and invented new frontiers of an aesthetic naturalism, elegantly remaking urban and rural wildness into...

SOLO EXHIBITION

March 7 - April 11, 2015

ON REFLECTIONS

Craig Krull Gallery | Santa Monica, CA

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 ...

On Refrections Solo Exhibition

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Coming to the Edge Solo Exhibition

SOLO EXHIBITION

January 10 - February 28, 2015

COMING TO THE EDGE

R.B. Stevenson Gallery | La Jolla, CA

SOLO EXHIBITION

January 26, March 2, 2013

NEW TERRITORY

Craig Krull Gallery | Santa Monica, CA

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 ...

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New Territory Solo Exhibition

East West Spring Fall Solo Exhibition

SOLO EXHIBITION

October 16 - November 27, 2010

EAST WEST SPRING FALL

Craig Krull Gallery | Santa Monica, CA

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 ...

SOLO EXHIBITION

May 17 - July 21, 2008

NEW PAINTINGS & DRAWINGS

Craig Krull Gallery | Santa Monica, CA

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 ...

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New Paintings and Drawings Solo Exhibition

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