PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery of the University of the Arts announces a major exhibition of works by Matt Mullican, one of the foremost artists of the so-called “Pictures Generation.”

Mullican was born in Santa Monica, California in 1951 to two artists, Lee Mullican and Luchita Hurtado. At California Institute of the Arts, he studied in John Baldessari’s famous “Post-Studio Art” class and received his BFA in 1974. (Among his classmates were Barbara Bloom, Jack Goldstein, David Salle, and James Welling). While at CalArts, he first developed his charts, which archive sign systems involving both public and private symbols. Although his works manifest diverse media, his entire enterprise is tied together through an engagement in a graphic postmodern project illuminating a theory of mind and mapping an encyclopedic cosmology of consciousness. Mullican creates analogies of how the mind symbolically perceives and delineates representations of the world. Within Mullican’s universe, colors signify order: the material world (green), the as-yet-uncultured (blue), culture (yellow), the arena of signs and language (black and white), and subjective experience (red).

Exhibiting since the 1970s, Mullican has had hundreds of solo and group exhibitions worldwide at venues including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum, Queens, Brooklyn Museum and Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in LA, the Dallas Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum, the Fabric Workshop in Philadelphia, Dokumenta in Kassel, the Haus der Kunst in Munich and National Galerie in Berlin, Portikus, Frankfurt, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Kroller – Muller, Otterlo among others. Mullican currently resides in Berlin and New York. His work has been reviewed in Artforum, The New York Times, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frieze, ArtReview, Flash Art, Kunstforum, Parachute and Modern Painters. He is represented by Peter Freeman, Inc., in New York and Paris; Mai 36 Galerie in Zurich Switzerland; and Projecte SD in Barcelona, Spain.

This exhibition is free and open to the public.