Queer artist Alex Da Corte

JAMES RUSSEL | Contributing Writer James.Journo@gmail.com

Alex Da Corte wants to blow everything up.

The queer Venezuelan American artist likes to deconstruct, shed the source material of its meaning and then remake it. Take his paintings, a selection of which are on display in the exhibition Alex Da Corte: The Whale at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth through Sept. 7, a survey of the past 15 years of him lobbing bombs.

Actually, these works aren’t paintings at all. In fact, he told curator Alison Hearst of the medium, “I don’t like canvas. I don’t like the feeling of paint on canvas. It sickens me to death.”

Instead, these works are sculptures and prints made with unconventional materials, like neoprene and soap. They’re references to his life, pop cultu

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