{"data":{"id":"10836","type":"artist","attributes":{"id":10836,"topgoose_id":1785,"tms_id":10836,"display_name":"Sister Corita Kent","sort_name":"Kent Corita Sister","display_date":"1918–1986","begin_date":"1918","end_date":"1986","biography":"\u003cp\u003eA Sister of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Corita Kent graduated from Los Angeles’s Immaculate Heart College in 1941 and received a MFA in art history from the University of Southern California in 1951. From 1964 to 1968 she headed the art department at Immaculate Heart College, garnering a progressive reputation for the program. In vibrant serigraphs and screenprints produced during the 1960s and 1970s, Kent demonstrated a deep political and social engagement: a strong antiwar sentiment and equally strong support of the civil rights movement, but also a belief in effective communication and creative pedagogy. Many works from this period incorporate quotations and slogans collected from a range of literary, biblical, and pop culture sources.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWorks such as \u003ca href=\"/collection/works/29776\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eHA\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/a\u003e demonstrate an interest not only in the meaning of words but in their sound and their shape on the page. \u003cem\u003eHA\u003c/em\u003e includes the word \u003cem\u003eLIFE\u003c/em\u003e, appropriated from the masthead of\nthe magazine but rendered upside\ndown and in reverse, while the rest of\nthe letters appear distorted. The letters\nhover between their appearance as\nabstract shapes and their resolution\ninto recognizable signifiers. Kent cited the\nmodernist architect and designer\nCharles Eames and the nonfigurative\npossibilities of Abstract Expressionist\npainters such as \u003ca href=\"/artists/1132\"\u003eMark Rothko\u003c/a\u003e as influences.\nThe legibility of her prints attracted an\naudience looking for accessible meaning,\nKent explained, but her graphic and\ncolorful style would also introduce them\nto ideas about form and encourage\nthem to understand the visual message.\u003c/p\u003e","on_view":false,"artport":false,"biennial":false,"collection":true,"ulan_id":"500014156","wikidata_id":"Q5170723","created_at":"2017-08-30T16:38:45.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-04-26T01:31:12.865-04:00","links":{"artworks":"/api/artists/10836/artworks","exhibitions":"/api/artists/10836/exhibitions"}}}}