Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery at University of the Arts is pleased to present Alex Da Corte’s The Street. 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.

The Street references Venturi, Scott Brown’s Main Street and  the vernacular vocabulary of popular culture culled from the internet, Philadelphia, animation cels, Pop Art in general and the American artist Marjorie Strider in particular, the paintings of Andrew Gbur BFA ’07 (Painting and Drawing), 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. L. 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. In total, the project deals with the appropriation and mirroring of popular culture, anamorphic distortion, cultural memory and personal reflection. On the street, disorder is an order we cannot see. On the street, everyone is a voyeur.

Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery thanks the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program for its assistance in this exhibition. Da Corte is represented by Matthew Marks Gallery, New York and Los Angeles, and Sadie Coles HQ, London.