Super Bowl Sunday

Artist: Katharine Kuharic, American, born 1962
Date: 2003
Material: Oil on linen
made in: Saint Louis, Missouri, United States, North and Central America
Classification: Paintings
Collection: Modern and Contemporary Art
Current Location: Not on view
Dimensions: 34 3/8 × 22 3/8 in. (87.3 × 56.8 cm)
framed: 37 7/8 × 25 15/16 × 2 1/4 in. (96.2 × 65.9 × 5.7 cm)
Credit Line: The Nancy and Kenneth Kranzberg Fund for Artists Based in the St. Louis Area
Rights: © Katharine Kuharic, Courtesy of Katharine Kuharic and P·P·O·W, New York
Object Number: 11:2004

NOTES

Seven circular forms based on advertising images hover in a vibrant blue sky over this devastated landscape. They appear alternately as tornados, mandalas, and flowers. For Super Bowl Sunday, Katharine Kuharic drew on memories of the chaos she experienced leaving her downtown New York studio following the tragic events of September 11, 2001, and her subsequent relocation to St. Louis. The contrast between the colorful symbols of prosperity floating above and the rubble-strewn scene below conveys deliberate ambiguity—suspending this work between a surreal, dreamlike vision and a societal critique.

Provenance

2003 - 2004
P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York, NY, representing the artist

2004 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased from P.P.O.W. Gallery [1]

Notes:
[1] See invoice dated February 4, 2004 [SLAM document files]. Minutes of the Collections Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, March 2, 2004.

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