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RYAN LEE Gallery is pleased to present Afro-Atlantica: The Aqueous Continent, a presentation of works by George Nelson Preston. The five paintings and one work on paper on view are reflections on the Middle Passage. These recent works, made between 2016 and 2022, continue to explore Preston’s longstanding interest in the power of memory, the emotional context of historical trauma, and the complicated inheritance of the African diaspora and “our double consciousness” throughout the Americas as well as Preston’s own family legacy.

In his manipulation of horizon lines and space, Preston imagines …