Jun 8th 2022

Saturnine Gallery Talk

@ The Richard H. Driehaus Museum

40 E Erie St, Chicago, IL 60611

Opening Wednesday, June 8th, from 5:30PM - 6:30PM

On view through Friday, July 10th

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$30 General Audience || $25 Member

Join us for a gallery talk for Theodora Allen: Saturnine. The evening will include an intimate exhibition conversation with curator Stephanie Cristello, and a cocktail demonstration and tasting with The Cocktail Guy. Tonight’s program will feature the Blue Moon cocktail.

Image Credit: Dear Old Dixie Moon song sheet

About the Exhibition

A Tale of Today: Theodora Allen Saturnine

The exhibition marks the latest iteration of the Museum’s newest initiative: A Tale of Today, which features work by leading contemporary artists to expand the immersive experience and to shape our understanding of the world through the art, architecture, design, and cultural history of the Nickerson Mansion, the Museum’s home. Curated by Stephanie Cristello, Theodora Allen: Saturnine derives its title from figure of Saturn and its historical association with melancholy, often referred to as the curse of artists. Visitors to the Museum will see Allen’s luminous and meditative compositions, filled with a lexicon of snakes, planets, moons, and plant life – motifs that draw from ancient Greek mythology, literature, fin-de-siècle Europe, and the zeitgeist of 1960s California.

Allen’s paintings are exhibited in the second-floor galleries of the Driehaus Museum, convening a dialogue between the rich ornamentation of the Gilded Age Nickerson Mansion and the artist’s interpretation of iconic mythical, natural, and celestial symbols. Alongside its collection of Tiffany glass, pre-Raphaelite paintings, and Art Nouveau flourishes, the unique environment of the Driehaus Museum becomes an essential part of Theodora Allen: Saturnine.

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