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American, 21st century, male. Active in Philadelphia. Born 1980, in Camden, New Jersey. Installation artist. Alex Da Corte was born and raised primarily in Camden, New Jersey, although he also spent time in Caracas, Venezuela, from where his father had emigrated. Da Corte received his BFA from the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, in 2004 with a concentration in printmaking, and his MFA from Yale University in 2010. Da Corte’s postmodern pop surrealist installations are a lush cacophony of colour, light, texture, material, and oblique symbolism. His work grapples with many of the ubiquitous concerns of contemporary artists and culture; consumerism, mass production, repetition, consumption, waste, repurposement, and authorship all brought together into wacky juxtaposition with one another. Much of Da Corte’s work involves playing with the contemporary onslaught of images that have no discernible original source or author. The physical spaces in his installations can feel like areas of digital decoupage, a Tumblr page writ large and thrust into our three-dimensional reality. An obvious theme throughout his work is the tension of how an object comes to be an object, and the functional life of objects from conception, to production, to consumption, to discard and then to an eventual repurposing from utilitarian object into art object. Spanning the second floor galleries of Mass MoCA, Da Corte’s first museum survey, ...