In Matthews’ film, Ourika has been dead for over 200 years, her soul wandering through a dark, endless void where she encounters ghosts from her previous life. The film-a surreal, 18-minute glamorous sci-fi deconstruction of the tale of a Senegalese girl named Ourika who was enslaved by a French aristocrat-was warmly received and went on to be featured in the Indie Memphis Film Festival in October.

OURIKA! originally debuted alongside three other short films funded through the inaugural run of the BlackStar Filmmaker Lab at the festival in early August 2022. Learn more about the artist, exhibition and upcoming eventsĪ still from Xenia Matthews' film OURIKA! He was last seen at UArts on March 5, 2020, when he re-envisioned Allan Kaprow’s Chicken in Gershman Hall. A 2004 UArts alum, Da Corte received his MFA from Yale University in 2010. On the street, everyone is a voyeur.Īll Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery exhibitions are free and open to the public.īorn in 1980 in Camden, New Jersey, Da Corte is well known to the University of the Arts and Philadelphia communities.

On the street, disorder is an order we cannot see. In total, the project deals with the appropriation and mirroring of popular culture, anamorphic distortion, cultural memory and personal reflection. Stine’s Fear Street series of YA horror novels, an obscure wall-mural advertisement in south Jersey, Langston Hughes and Donald Barthelme, Milton Glaser, manuals for making windows, and an early work by UArts professor Edna Andrade. The Street references Venturi, Scott Brown’s Main Street and the Information Highway, Philadelphia, the vernacular vocabulary of popular culture culled from the internet, animation cels, Pop Art in general and the American artist Marjorie Strider in particular, the paintings of Andrew Gbur BFA ’07 (Painting), book cover and record design, Disney’s Snow White, James Rosenquist’s 'F-111,' Sesame Street, avant-garde swimwear designer Rudi Gernreich, Marilyn Monroe, Sister Corita Kent, the Mexican version of Ernie Bushmiller’s comic-strip scamp Nancy known as Periquita, Ed Ruscha, R.

An opening reception will be held at the gallery Friday, Jan. This complex installation comprises a suite of Da Corte’s recent large-scale reverse-glass paintings, shown for the first time, hung against a background mural of his own design in an environment including masonry columns, neon and placards. 13 to Friday, March 10, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery at University of the Arts will present Alex Da Corte’s The Street.

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