NEW YORK, NY.- Zach Feuer Gallery presents an exhibition of work by the Pop artist, teacher and nun, Sister Mary Corita (1918-1986). Drawn to the power of the word, Sister Corita incorporated fragments of text, slogans and signs taken from billboards, street signs, advertising jingles, pop songs, poems, newspapers and magazines into her work. She sampled quotes by Martin Luther King Jr., Rainer Maria Rilke, Phillip Roth and the Psalms. Sister Corita also appropriated images from magazine and newspaper covers of the Viet Cong, the Pope and the Berrigan Brothers burning draft cards as well as the Wonder Bread logo. Corita's innovative use of loaded text, used alone or
