Super Bowl LIX has Kansas City in the headlines this week, but if you’ve come looking for news about Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs you’ve landed in the wrong place. This is a story about the native Kansans, designer Jeremy Scott and artist Katherine Bernhardt, who are the subjects of a new exhibition at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art in Overland Park. “A Match Made in Heaven,” which opens to the public on February 7, puts a spotlight the pair’s shared pop cultural references.
KC’s winning record notwithstanding, football might be the only bit of Americana that Scott and Bernhardt haven’t mutually explored. A spin through the Nerman’s galleries reveals many, many other parallels and overlapping passions. Both designer and artist have things for fast food, junk cereal, Bart Simpson, and soda, but as midwesterners, they call soda “pop.”