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For Fran

Past exhibition
February 6 - March 27, 2025 San Antonio
Katie Pell, Gordon Lightfoot, 2017-2018
Katie Pell, Gordon Lightfoot, 2017-2018
Katie Pell, Gordon Lightfoot, 2017-2018
Katie Pell, Gordon Lightfoot, 2017-2018

Katie Pell American, 1965-2019

Gordon Lightfoot, 2017-2018
Mixed media on record album cover
12 x 12 in
30.5 x 30.5 cm
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Further images

  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) Kate Terrell, Pollux at Dusk, 2017-8
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) Kate Terrell, Pollux at Dusk, 2017-8
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 3 ) Kate Terrell, Pollux at Dusk, 2017-8
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 4 ) Kate Terrell, Pollux at Dusk, 2017-8
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Pell, known for her love of pop culture, created a series of collaged album covers as an homage to musical artists of the 1970s. In placing musical artists such as...
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Pell, known for her love of pop culture, created a series of collaged album covers as an homage to musical artists of the 1970s. In placing musical artists such as Pat Boone and Rex Smith, and in this piece, Gordon Lightfoot, center stage, the works echo the nostalgia of bedroom posters and the idolization of pop stars. By utilizing newspaper and magazine clippings, Pell champions the homemade and handmade. “I want to be part of the transformation of popular culture—embrace the weak, expose a maudlin dream, or comfort the lonely. I want to be a strong citizen of love,” said the artist.
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Exhibitions

For Fran, Ruiz-Healy Art, San Antonio; curator: Hills Snyder, 2025
Something’s Happening: The Big Art of Katie Pell, The Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, S.C.; curator: Catherine Walworth

Literature

Fauerso, Neil. “'For Fran' at San Antonio's Ruiz-Healy Art offers another exhibition remembering Fran Colpitt,” San Antonio Current, February 18, 2025, (illustrated).
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