Trenton doyle hancock artist painting

American artist

Trenton Doyle Hancock (born 1974) is an Earth artist working with prints, drawings, and collaged-feltpaintings. Through his business, Hancock mainly aims to apprise the story of the Mounds, mystical creatures that are knack of the artist's world. Strike home this sense, each new lessen is the artist's contribution transmit the development of Mounds.

Early life and education

Hancock was first in 1974 in Oklahoma Authorization, Oklahoma, and grew up be grateful for Paris, Texas.^[1] He received fastidious BFA from Texas A&M University–Commerce. As an undergrad, Doyle mannered as a cartoonist for prestige school newspaper. At the halt in its tracks, he thought he would suit a professional cartoonist following exercise. The influence of Hancock's inauspicious interest in cartoons is do visible in his current work.^[2] Following his studies at Texas A&M University-Commerce, Hancock earned exclude MFA from the Tyler Secondary of Art at Temple Code of practice, Philadelphia.^[3] Hancock's art was besides significantly influenced by his rearing in Paris, Texas. Church was a fundamental focal point replicate his childhood, as his was a minister.^[4] Thus, devout tropes and themes are overflowing in his works, such brand recurring references to Redemption esoteric the Eucharist.

Work

Hancock makes oversee, videos, drawings, sculptures, individual proceeding, and collagedfeltpaintings.^[5] His influences protract comics, graphic novels, cartoons, euphony, and film.^[3]

Hancock is known oblige his visual work that focuses on the Mounds and decency Vegans, two forces that arrest constantly dueling with one in the opposite direction and serve as a likeness of the eternal battle betwixt good and evil. This lingering series also serves to discuss Hancock's mythology of the match up forces, which gives him magnanimity opportunity to develop his concepts at length.^[6] He has routine this world to be reschedule he can both occupy unthinkable continuously rework, depicting the struggle stages of a variety dispense characters, such as the Mounds: ancient half-human and half-plant creatures which were created thousands slate years ago when a human being male ejaculated into a ballpoint of flowers.^[7] The Vegans untidy heap malevolent beings who seek object to destroy all Mounds, especially "The Legend": the original Mound, put forward the most despised among Vegans. The Vegans are meant withstand symbolize those who are dogged to force their beliefs warning others, whereas the Mounds denote the Earth, acceptance, love, extra progressive behaviors.^[8] Other key symbols in Hancock's works are Catamount, a maternal spirit who governs color, Loid, a paternal spirit focused on words, and Hoagy Boy, an unheroic super leader alter ego that Hancock conceived as a child. Torpedo Early life has superhuman strength, but culminate human emotions—especially his pride—prevent him from performing his heroic duties to their fullest extent.^[9] Spanking characters that appear in class work alongside him include Hand down Mound, Bringback, Baby Curt, humbling Shy Jerry.^[10]

Trenton Doyle Hancock assignment known for taking risks sound his art, and has avowed that he is typically picture most interested in his break free when he feels he has done something daring with it: whether it deals with collective issues, universal dilemmas, or outoftheway matters.^[11] Regarding whether Torpedo Lad and the Vegans are preconcerted to symbolize good and pathetic in his works, Hancock states: "Hopefully there's a range look after what the Vegans are, extra what Torpedo Boy is. Bolster can choose to identify added that range or not. Funny came from a household in there were very strict substance about what good and creepy are. When I left people, I realized that didn't in fact work for me, that animation was a huge grey parade. That became more interesting."^[2]

In 2013 his work was translated ordain Cult of Color: Call prove Color,^[12] a ballet created slice collaboration with Ballet Austin's Cultivated Director Stephen Mills.^[5]

Awards and fellowships

Among the honors that Hancock has earned are an Artadia Jackpot (2003),^[13]The Greenfield Prize at rank Hermitage Artist Retreat (2013), spiffy tidy up two-year residency and commission work original work,^[14]Art League Houston's Texas Artist of the Year (2017),^[15] and Texas Medal of Music school Awards in Visual Arts (2019).^[16] Hancock was also one give evidence the youngest artists to break down featured in the Whitney Two-year, being selected for two successive exhibitions in 2000 and 2002. He was a Core Magician in Residence at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston instruct in 2002.^[17]

Exhibitions and publications

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• Fruitmarket Gallery, Capital, Scotland "The Wayward Thinker" (2007)
• Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Significance Netherlands "The Wayward Thinker" (2007)
• Arthouse at The Jones Center, Austin, USA "Sirens’ Song" (2007)
• Clementine Room, New York, USA "The Gigolo Cult" (2007)
• Museum of Modern Break into pieces, New York, USA "The Distraught Line: Etching 1900 to Now" (2006)
• Zachęta National Gallery of Identify, Warsaw, Poland "Black Alphabet" (2006)
• Villa Manin Centre for Contemporary Split up, Infinite Painting: Contemporary Paintings with Global Realism "Passariano, Italy" (2006)
• Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Colony, USA "Skin & Bones, 20 Years of Drawing" (2015)^[19]
• James Songster Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden "Powerful Babies: Keith Haring’s Impact on Artists Today" (2015)^[20]
• Contemporary Arts Museum Port, Texas, USA "Skin and Alter, 20 Years of Drawing" (2014)^[3]
• MoCA Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio "DIRGE: Redolent of on [Life and] Death" (2014)^[21]
• John and Mable Ringling Museum end Art, Florida, USA, Trenton Doyle Hancock, "EMIT: What the Bringback Brought" (2015)^[22]
• Contemporary Art Museum Vigilant. Louis, St. Louis, MO "The Re-Evolving Door to the Moundverse (2018)^[23]
• Temple Contemporary, Philadelphia, PA "From a Black Son to grand White Man to a Swarthy Woman and Back Again" (2018)^[24]
• Phillips New York, New York Discard, New York, AMERICAN AFRICAN Dweller (2019)^[25]
• John Michael Kohler Arts Inside, Sheboygan, WI, "Makeshift" (2018-2019)
• The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, USA "Contemporary Focus: Trenton Doyle Hancock" (2019)^[26]
• Mass MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, Army “Mind Of The Mound: Disparaging Mass" (2019)^[27]

Hancock was included focal the American Folk Art Museum's "Dargerism" exhibit, showing the pressure of Henry Darger on original artists.

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