Putting an artist in her place - Harvard Gazette
Susan Dackerman (photo 1), consultative curator of prints, examines the design for the Boston Gas Co. tank created by Corita Kent in 1971. At the Harvard Art Museums, “Corita Kent and the Language of Pop” examines the artist’s work within the... Inspired by a Del Monte food slogan and the reforms in the Catholic Church introduced during Vatican II, Kent’s work “the juiciest tomato of all” (photo 2) evokes the everyday and the divine. Kent’s painted gas tank (photo 3) became a “pop art landmark for Boston,” said Dackerman. n 1962, a commercial illustrator from New York rocked the art world with his first one-man show. From the moment she visited the Ferus Gallery, where Warhol’s 32 paintings were on display, Sister Mary Corita (later Corita Kent) found it hard not to see the world through the lens of those captivating cans. “She was exposed to this avant-garde art practice right at the very beginning,” said Susan Dackerman, the former Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Curator of Prints at the Harvard Art Museums and current consultative curator of prints. “And she is totally open to it. ”. Dackerman is the curator of “Corita Kent and the Language of Pop Art,” an exhibit opening this week at the Harvard Art Museums that positions Kent and her work as central to an art movement famous for celebrating... Source: news.harvard.edu
