The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation, Arthur Ross Gallery and Penn Live Arts are pleased to present a unique opportunity to experience an installation of acclaimed contemporary artist Nina Chanel Abney’s epic painting cycle entitled I Dread to Think (2012). Comprising a sixty-foot-long series of large canvases portraying wildly colorful and sometimes apocalyptic scenes from the Internet Age, I Dread to Think will be on view in the lobby of the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts through August 2025.
The Annenberg Center installation of Nina Chanel Abney's I Dread to Think is presented as part of the recently opened Arthur Ross Gallery exhibition After Modernism: Selections from the Neumann Family Collection, on view at the University of Pennsylvania at the Arthur Ross Gallery and the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, through March 2, 2025.
The installation of Nina Chanel Abney's I Dread to Think at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts through August 2025 is presented through a collaboration between Arthur Ross Gallery, Penn Live Arts and The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation.
Nina Chanel Abney, I Dread to Think (detail), 2012. Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy of the Neumann Family Collection.
