Theodora Allen: Saturnine (Signed)

Replete with full-color plates and details of her meticulous, luminous paintings, the first monograph of Los Angeles-based contemporary artist Theodora Allen shines a light on her work and exhibitions of the last eight years.  Accompanying Allen's exhibition at Kunsthal Aarhus in Denmark, the catalog brings a magnifying glass to the artist’s symbolic lexicon—serpents, moths, hourglasses, wildfires, hallucinogenic plants, and the cosmos—as windows into timeless inner worlds. Curator and author Stephanie Cristello alternates between fictional texts and critical essays, to look at the way these emblems and allegories remain generative. Connecting specific moments from ancient Greek mythology, medieval psychology, Fin de Siècle Europe, and the zeitgeist of 1960s California, Saturnine offers meditations on the kaleidoscope of references that find their footing in Allen’s paintings, and their powerful resonance in our contemporary moment. A wealth of reference images alongside rigorous crit