no art to see here: Exhibition Opening

Thursday, April 20th, 2023 – Sunday May 21st, 2023
Exhibition Opening: April 20th at 7:00 PM

Gallery Hours: 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Thursday – Sunday, or by appointment

“Art fills the cracks of meaning that tangible things leave behind.”
As a child, Amanda Preston’s sketchbook went everywhere with her. Where words weren’t appropriate, art was. Conversations between the adults around her became colours, and her means of connection were often her drawings: her way of quietly saying “I see you.”
Where colour palate bonds her work together, the pieces explore disconnect to others and to self, as well as the expectations of being: Being alive, being oneself, being surrounded by one another, being alone in a world that is both kind and unkind.

Though words convey a lot of meaning, language is limited and meaning is steadily diminished through ambitionless buzz-words that can’t always articulate one’s feelings. As one might reach for metaphors and similes to be the grout that secures honest feeling, Preston reaches for art to fill to secure those same misplaced pieces, providing a connection to those leftover bits of emotion that too often go unspoken.

The title of the show, “no art to see here” can be read as a nod to Lady Macbeth’s “there’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.” In other words, no one can determine what another is thinking by looking at their appearance or the expression on such a person’s face.
In a very similar way, you can be told to receive or not to receive art in a specific, curated process but true connection or understanding will filter through our own individual perception. No one person can predetermine another’s connection or lack thereof.