Sister Mary Corita Kent

Sister Corita Kent was a catholic nun born in 1918 who after leaving high school in 1936 went straight to a convent at just 18 years old. She spent her years teaching art at a college in Los Angeles and often took her students on trips to near by galleries and museums. It was said that viewing Andy Warhol's work changed the way Corita saw the world. It was his soup can paintings which influences her work (image above) and  on viewing them she went onto screen print a series of work known as 'the juiciest tomato of all'

her 1967 work handle with care Kent layered slogans—including words from a button and from a Chevrolet ad (“See the man who can save you the most”)—so that reading them “becomes an act of mental and physical calisthenics, that calls for slow rigorous scrutiny,” says curator Susan Dackerman. Kent also began experimenting with fluorescent inks, likely inspired by the color experimentation and theories of fellow artist Josef Albers ; his screenprint of layered squares, Wide Light; Tenuous; Full (1962) also appears in the gallery.