Friday Film Screening & Art Exhibit at Alexandria’s Galactic Panther
An Explosive Evening of Art and Punk Culture in Alexandria — Exhibition Opening and Film Screening with Special Guests
ALEXANDRIA, VA – It’s two-for-one cultural event at the Galactic Panther on Friday, November 7, with both a film screening and an exhibit opening:
3 p.m. – 6 p.m. – Exhibition Opening of Brave New World – Uropia Infectium, a new exhibition by Brussels-based artist Silio Durt, known for his electrifying silkscreen prints born from his UROCHROME studio in Brussels. Durt’s work fuses punk energy, chaos, and metamorphosis in a “visual combustion” of color and urgency. Each piece begins as an original drawing—then undergoes a metamorphosis through layers of reworking, cutting, and chemical alchemy until it becomes something entirely new: a print pulsing with cryptogenic themes and saturated color. Through his process—equal parts destruction and rebirth—Durt channels the industrial energy of screen printing into a form of visual combustion.
6:30 p.m. – Film Screening of Punk the Capital: Building a Sound Movement Director James June Schneider explores the birth of DC’s late-’70s punk scene featuring Henry Rollins and Ian MacKaye. A Q&A with Schneider and photographer Antonia Tricarico, whose work appears in Frame of Mind: Photographs from DC & Beyond, follows.
Tickets are $15.18 and are available here.
Visitors may also view these exhibits at the Galactic Panther:
- Frame of Mind: Photographs from DC & Beyond
- Sing Into My Mouth – Ravi Zupa
- Portrait of Nigeria – Kelani Fatai & Samuel Ukpahi (Foreversammy)
- The Last Scream – Silkscreen Prints from France
Admission to these events and exhibits are free and open to the public. Donations are appreciated and artwork is for sale.
Contact:
Curator – Eli Pollard | [email protected]
General Manager – Darren Smith | [email protected]
