CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 1/29/2026

In our current emergency, 'Someday is Now'

At this moment in American history, Corita Kent’s 1966 serigraph for emergency use soft shoulder is more welcome than ever. We are in that emergency. Reproduced from new release Someday is Now: The Art of Corita Kent—actually a reprint of the long out-of-print monograph on the artist, activist and Catholic nun that remains the most comprehensive book on her work to date—it embodies both Kent’s “formal innovation and an acute engagement with social issues,” in the words of essayist (and original exhibition organizer) Michael Duncan. “The works of the great communicator and formal activist Corita Kent transcend the simple captioning of most politically based photo-text work, offering a life-enhancing alternative to self-congratulatory and solipsistic works found within the cacophony of today’s art-world. They set a precedent for more sophisticated styles of communication, ones that offer aesthetic, flexible, and poetic ways of looking at the printed word. … She reflects and refracts the essence of our consumer-based desires, so to lift the spirits of her media-broadsided, spiritually numbed audience.”