Alex Da Corte is a Phladelphia-based artist who has studied film, fine art, and printmaking at the School of Visual Arts in New York and Philadelphia�s University of the Arts. Each of the disciplines he has studied manifests itself in his varied artworks. Much of Alex�s current work started with wheat-pasting pictures of people carrying enormous ketchup bottles around the Philadelphia. This work was tied to an investigation of the everyday diner as a heaven-like environment. After dying on April Fool�s Day from a rare medical condition and permanently losing his intestines, the artist�s work changed greatly, though it still held on to some earlier religious themes. His new work utilizes a mixed-media approach, dealing with imagery of colostomy bags, Clark Gable, birthdays, snakes, and dead horses.
SHOWS:
Alex Da Corte Prints featured in HEARTWORKS Exhibition and Auction in Philadelphia
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More Than Helvetica Write-Up
Video Profile by Coolhunting:
The Death of All Things Beautiful
Welcome Your Sorrows - December 2005, Black Floor Gallery
The Darkness Before The Dawn-in collaboration with Nick Lenker.
Pies, children and super-heroes combine to give us an over-the-top image of a child's view of heaven, painstakingly created by Alex Da Corte.
Tell your best friend you’ll always be best friends, or tell yourself you’ll always be you, with this tunic from Alex de la Corte. Even if your former best becomes your ex-best or if you have a falling out with yourself, you’ll forever have the memories
Pies, children and super-heroes combine to give us an over-the-top image of a child's view of heaven, painstakingly created by Alex Da Corte.