Join artist Jill Mulleady for a conversation on the opening day of her solo exhibition The Passenger at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Mulleady’s paintings often depict scenes that are enigmatic and dangerous, showing figures at risk or under threat — from appetite, predation, or compulsion. Her imagery draws actively on painting lineages including allegory and the Baroque, Symbolist unease, and the grotesque, recasting genres and canonical images for the present.

The artist will be joined by David Joselit, Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor in the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University, and Giampaolo Bianconi, Dittmer Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago. Together they will reflect on the works in the exhibition and the ideas animating Mulleady’s practice.