Published alongside the exhibition is Saturnine, the first monograph on Theodora Allen. Written by exhibition curator Stephanie Cristello, this catalogue shines a light on Allen's work and exhibitions of the last eight years. Replete with full-color plates and details of her meticulous, luminous paintings, the book brings a magnifying glass to the artist's symbolic lexicon as windows into timeless inner worlds. Cristello alternates between fictional texts and critical essays to look at the way these emblems and allegories remain generative.
Saturnine offers meditations on the kaleidoscope of references that find their footing in Allen's paintings, and their powerful resonance in our contemporary moment. You can hear more about it from the curator and artist from their /Dialogues session at 2022's EXPO CHICAGO.
Signed copies of the monograph are available in our Museum Store in person or online here.