Trenton Doyle Hancock

Trenton Doyle Hancock (b. 1974) has created a fantastical narrative that informs his prolific artistic output. Part fictional, part autobiographical, Hancock’s work pulls from his own personal experience, art historical canon, comics and superheroes, pulp fiction, and myriad pop culture references, resulting in a complex universe populated by Mounds, half animal and half plant creatures, who are preyed upon by evil beings called Vegans. His narratives employ a variety of cultural tropes, ranging in tone from comic-strip superhero battles to medieval morality plays and influenced in style by Hieronymus Bosch, Max Ernst, Henry Darger, Philip Guston and R. Crumb. Text embedded within the paintings and drawings both drives the narrative and acts as a central visual component.

Mound #1 The Legend

Hancock’s most recent project with Graphicstudio is a collaboration into the world of toys, titled Mound #1 The Legend. Designed to be “huggable”, Mound #1 The Legend is a faux fur and leatherette stuffed doll with a cast rubber head, each one with hand-painted features and a nose that is one of eight colors in this edition variée. The packaging is screen and digitally printed PVC board that was CNC routed and heat-molded to form. Each mound is accompanied by an original 8” x 8” acrylic on canvas painting by Trenton Doyle Hancock.

Flower Bed II: A Prelude to Damnation

Hancock’s blacklight reactive wallpaper, Flower Bed II: A Prelude to Damnation, is an explosion of color, imagery and text depicting “The Great Mound Massacre,” the violent murder of several hundred baby mounds by their half brother and sister Brouthescam and Cromalyna. As part of Hancock’s continuing narrative, Brouthescam and Cromalyna, are banished to the underworld for the murders and procreate, producing the Vegan race.

Vegan Arm

In his collaborative efforts with Graphicstudio, Hancock has produced Vegan Arm, a 10-foot sculptural arm of a Vegan clutching a bucket of a cast version of Pepto-Bismol, the artist’s chosen material to represent “Mound Meat”. For the production of this piece Graphicstudio worked with Walla Walla Foundry to transform the artist’s original sculptural arm modeled out of modeling clay into the 10-foot cast resin sculpture. Vegan Arm was debuted at Hancock’s exhibition at James Cohan Gallery in March 2006.

 

Further Resources

Artist's Site: trentondoylehancock.com

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