🎨 Artist Theodora Allen merges the physical world with the metaphysical one in her new exhibition 'Solitaire.' | ✍️ Annette LePique
Guanyu Xu
Artist Theodora Allen’s work has long reminded me of the Major Arcana tarot or a deck of playing cards; her paintings, both intimate and grand, are worlds ripe with hidden meanings. This merge of the physical with the metaphysical produces an uncanny sensation in the viewer. One might reasonably expect The Lovers, The Queen of Hearts, or Fortune itself to emerge from Allen’s picture planes.
The exhibition traces the idea of “solitaire” through social history, linguistics, and popular culture. Using the word’s Latin origins as a springboard, the show’s written materials consider how the word has transformed throughout history; it once named a military tactical maneuver, a jewelry setting for a single stone, and the well-known card game.
In four of the six pieces on view, Allen details the heart, the club, the spade, and the diamond of playing card suits in a heraldic crest.In four of the six pieces that compose the show, Allen’s highly mannered compositions detail the heart, the club, the spade, and the diamond of playing card suits in a heraldic crest. The two remaining works are framed scenes of an arctic landscape; one bears a hand holding an orb, the other a drill bit bearing down on a lone heart.
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