An exhibition pairing the late artist and activist Corita Kent with three contemporary Bay Area artists is on view at the Palo Alto Art Center through Dec. 13.

“Live the Moment Light” opened Sept. 19 and features work by Kent, Terri Friedman, Soleé Darrell and Angelica Trimble-Yanu. Guest curator Christine Koppes organized the exhibition around Kent’s continuing influence, according to the city’s exhibition page.

The show includes screen prints, woven textiles, dyed silk velvet, video and installations. Details about the artworks and Koppes’ observations were reported by Palo Alto Online.

Born in 1918, Kent entered the Order of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Los Angeles at 18 and eventually headed the art department at Immaculate Heart College. Her screen prints drew on advertising, song lyrics, religious texts and literature, while her work increasingly addressed social injustice during the 1960s.

In 1968, she took a sabbatical, subsequently sought release from her vows and moved to Boston, according to the Corita Art Center’s biography. Her later work became more restrained and reflective. Before her death in 1986, she created nearly 800 serigraph editions and designed a U.S. Love postage stamp.

The Palo Alto exhibition includes 11 prints from Kent’s 1977 “Moments” series, along with three earlier prints from the 1960s and a 20-minute documentary, Palo Alto Online reported. The later prints combine bright colors with branching lines that appear to continue between works.

Koppes told the publication that Kent’s later art reflects “how in life you need to hold both the dark and the light, you need to still have this optimism, but it comes along with the realities of the world.”

Friedman contributes five large weavings and “Leave Some for Tomorrow Chapel,” a video installation created with her son, technology artist Isaac Monheit. In the Art Center’s glass gallery, projected images play across neutral-colored weavings. Grocery-store imagery connects the installation with Kent’s interest in everyday consumer products, according to Palo Alto Online.

The publication reported that Friedman has taught at California College of the Arts for 25 years.

Darrell, a Bermuda-born multidisciplinary artist, contributes five dyed silk velvet works and “Peace Portal,” an installation made for the exhibition. Orange and green fabric hangs against a light blue background. Koppes told Palo Alto Online that velvet remains an unusual medium among contemporary artists.

Trimble-Yanu contributes five monotype prints and five photographs, according to the publication. Her series “The Sun Bathed Everything I-III” combines forms resembling tree rings with yellow markings. Koppes connected that yellow to Kent’s title print.

Trimble-Yanu identifies as an enrolled member of the Oglála Lakȟóta Sioux Nation from Pine Ridge, South Dakota, with Bay Area roots, according to her biography.

The Palo Alto Art Center is at 1313 Newell Road. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday, according to the city’s visitor information.