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RYAN LEE Gallery is pleased to present Ayahuasca Notebook Paintings: Journeys and Returns, the gallery’s second exhibition of works by George Nelson Preston. This new body of paintings were all created in the past two years. Ayahuasca is a part of Preston’s practice, entwined with his deep exploration of his own family and ancestral heritage connecting to native peoples of the United States, Africa and Brazil. Preston has deep ties to Brazil, and it has been an important place in his life and imagination since he first traveled there in the 1980s.

The subtitle “Journeys and Returns” mirrors …