Trenton Doyle Hancock
TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK In the Blestian Room, Installation View, 2006
TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK In the Blestian Room, Installation View, 2006
TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK In the Blestian Room, Installation View, 2006
TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK In the Blestian Room, Installation View, 2006
TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK In the Blestian Room, Installation View, 2006
TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK In The Blesstian Room, 2005. Mixed media on canvas, 90 X 108 X 6 inches.
TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK Beacon, 2006. Mixed media on canvas, 108 x 90 inches.
TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK Morsel, 2006. Mixed media on canvas, 24 x 24 inches.
TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK Give 'Em an Inch and They'll Take a Foot, 2006. Mixed media on canvas, 60 x 60 inches.
TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK Birsk Bones Befallen, 2005. Mixed media on canvas, 24 x 24 inches.
TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK Bound, 2006. Mixed media on canvas, 24 x24 inches.
TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK Las Luces, Looses, and Losses, 2005. Mixed media on canvas, 60 3/4 X 60 3/4 X 4 inches
TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK Las Luces, Looses, and Losses (detail), 2005. Mixed media on canvas, 60 3/4 X 60 3/4 X 4 inches.
TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK Me A Mound (book cover), 2005. A full color hardcover picture story book, 168 pages, 9 x12 inches. Published by PictureBox and James Cohan Gallery
TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK Las Luces, Looses, and Losses (detail), 2005. Mixed media on canvas, 60 3/4 X 60 3/4 X 4 inches.
TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK The Ossified Theosophied, (Title Page), 2005. Color etching, 19 1/2 X 25 inches, Edition of 35
TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK The Ossified Theosophied, (Within Each of Us , Oftimes, There Dwells a Mighty and Raging Fury), 2005. Color etching, 19 1/2 X 25 inches, Edition of 35
TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK The Ossified Theosophied, (Cult of Color), 2005. Color etching, 19 1/2 X 25 inches, Edition of 35
TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK The Ossified Theosophied, (St. Sesom), 2005. Color etching, 19 1/2 X 25 inches, Edition of 35
TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK The Ossified Theosophied, (Harmony), 2005. Color etching, 19 1/2 X 25 inches Edition of 35
TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK The Ossified Theosophied, (Miracle Machine #1 or Vegan-Made Moundmeat Fountain), 2005. color etching, 25 X 19 1/2 inches, Edition of 35
TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK The Ossified Theosophied, (Aborted but Beautiful), 2005. Color etching, 19 1/2 X 25 inches, Edition of 35
TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK We Must Mediate the Meat He Ate, 2006. Ink and paint on paper, 12 X 8 1/4 inches.
TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK To Get Ahead One Must Sacrifice Certain Freedoms, 2006. Ink and paint on paper, 6 1/4 X 9 1/8 inches
TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK A Land So Wet So Dry, 2006. Ink and paint on paper,6 1/4 X 10 inches.
TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK The Third to the Last Great Hurah, Jr., 2006. pencil, ink and paint on paper 8 X 12 inches.
TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK The Essence of Vegan Purity, 2006. ink and paint on paper 12 5/8 X 8 1/8 inches
TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK Sole Con Coonsole, 2006. ink and paint on paper 12 X 8 inches
TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK Miracle Machine # 19 or Whisk Wish, 2006. paint, pencil and ink on paper 10 X 9 1/4 inches
TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK Miracler Machine # 18 or Dusk Buster, 2006. pencil, ink and paint on paper 8 X 7 1/4 inches
TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK Miracle Machine # 17 or An Original Rigged Ore Rig, 2006. pencil, ink and paint on paper 10 X 9 1/4 inches
TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK The Unbearable Lightness of Being Vegan, 2006. pencil, ink and paint of paper 10 X 9 1/4 inches
Beginning March 4, 2006, the James Cohan Gallery will present an exhibition of new paintings by artist Trenton Doyle Hancock. The bulk of the show is devoted to large mixed-media works from a new series entitled In the Blestian Room. Hancock will also premiere a new set of prints, called The Ossified Theosophied. The exhibition runs through April 15.
Hancock's candy-colored works are suffused with personal mythology, presented at an operatic scale. Through collage, paint, and accumulations of detritus, he creates exuberant and subversive narratives. Hancock employs a variety of cultural tropes, ranging in tone from comic-strip superhero battles to medieval morality plays, and in style from Hieronymus Bosch to Max Ernst. He uses language, which is embedded within the paintings and drawings, both as way to drive the narrative and as a central visual component.
For In the Blestian Room, Hancock adds new chapters to an ongoing absurdist parable of good and evil. The battle between the Vegans and the meat-eating Mounds takes a new turn, as Sesom, one of the Vegans, has a dream in which he discovers the liberating power of color. In The Ossified Theosophied, a transformed Sesom begins to make his miracle-machines, creating the life-affirming color blasts.
Simultaneous with the exhibition, Hancock will release a book entitled Me a Mound, published by Picturebox and distributed by D.A.P. This richly illustrated volume will present a retrospective of the artist's work, showing the evolution of his distinctive saga.
The Texas-based Hancock has shown in numerous exhibitions nationally and internationally, including the 2000 and 2002 Whitney Biennials. Solo exhibitions of his work have been mounted at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami. He has also shown internationally at the Lyon and Istanbul Biennials and will have an exhibitions show at the Fruitmarket, Edinburgh in early 2007.
Video documentation of the show is available at Vernisage TV.