Alex Da Corte in Everyday Icons - Season 11 - Art in the Twenty-First Century | Art21

Art21 proudly presents an artist segment, featuring Alex Da Corte, from the “Everyday Icons“ episode in the eleventh season of the “Art in the Twenty-First Century“ series. “Everyday Icons“ premiered in April 2023 on PBS. In a darkened gallery, artist Alex Da Corte appears projected on the wall in Slow Graffiti (2017) as Boris Karloff, performing as both the actor himself and his 1931 role as Frankenstein's monster, blurring the lines between actor and character. In his work, the artist never appears as himself, but rather, embodies the larger-than-life characters who influence or intrigue him: Mr. Rogers, the Wicked Witch of the West, Marcel Duchamp, and the Pink Panther are but a handful. Studying these characters who exist in worlds of fantasy and cartoon and integrating them into his own expansive artistic vision, Da Corte hopes to gain a deeper understanding of them and learn new ways of thinking. Alex Da Corte was born in Camden, New Jersey, in 198