We Care: Works by Corita Kent // J. M. Giordano: NIGHT WORK | Opening Receptions
Thursday, September 22 • 6-8pm
@ Goucher College Siber + Rosenberg Galleries
Goucher College is pleased to present We Care: Works by Corita Kent, on view in Silber Gallery from September 10 through December 16, 2022.
Corita Kent was an artist, an educator, and an activist who used her artwork to address issues of social injustice and the anti-war movement. As a Catholic nun, Corita drew on her faith, her distinct design sensibility, and diverse aesthetic influences to create her vibrant, text-based serigraphs. Corita came into her artistic identity in the 1960s amidst the protests over the Vietnam War and the fight for civil rights.Responding to the changes prompted by Vatican II,her religious community, the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, had adoptedincreasingly progressive positions, and found colleagues within the church, such asRev. Daniel Berrigan, S.J.,who were taking up vocal stances against the draft, hunger, and pervasive problems of racial and economic division.
This selection of boldly colored serigraphs is on loan from the U.S. Province of the Society of St. Sulpice. It is the first time this collection has been shown in Baltimore, MD. We Care is presented along with the Goucher Library Special Collections & Archives’ exhibition of the same title, which documents the Goucher community’s participation in activism and protests in the region throughout the college’s history. More information on Father Berrigan (known locally as a member of the Catonsville Nine) can be found in the 4thfloor exhibition, along with many other instances of social action and demonstration.
J M Giordano: NIGHT WORK is a selection of photographs from the decades-long photography and photojournalism career of the artist. The black and white images depict night life in Baltimore, featuring moments from music venues, nightclubs, bars, casinos, street scenes, and portraiture, documenting these spaces between the mid 90s to the mid 2010s. Baltimore night life fed and defined various subcultures across the city prior to the shutdown that the pandemic precipitated. In the uncharacteristically quiet shift, Giordano took the opportunity to review his work, assembling a uniquely intimate view of Baltimore culture. Theseimages are among those featured in J.M. Giordano’s resulting, first book, We Used To Live At Night, published by Culture Crush in 2021.
Joseph M. Giordano, an award-winning photojournalist based in Baltimore city and co-host of the podcasts 10 Frames Per Second and Photo Flip. His book, We Used to Live At Night chronicles 25 years of the city at night. His work has been featured on NPR, ProPublica, Al-Jazeera, GQ, Architectural Digest, Taste, The Observer New Review Sunday Magazine, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Daily Mail, Washington Post, The Baltimore City Paper, i-D Magazine, Discovery Channel Inc., Rolling-Stone, XLR8R. His work, from the Struggle series is in the permanent collections at the Reginald Lewis Museum. In 2015 he was short-listed for the National Gallery’s Outwin Boochever Portrait Prize and his international photographs covering the collapse of the steel industry are the subject of a solo show at the Museum of Industry in Baltimore.
Giordano’s book will be available for purchase through the Ivy Bookshop during the opening reception in Rosenberg Gallery.
