DATE: November 21, 2008
Hancock's works can currently be seen in Prospect.1 New Orleans Biennial and In the Beginning: Artists Respond to Genesis at the Contemporary Jewish Art Museum, San Francisco, CA. In April 2008, Hancock provided the costume and set design for Cult of Color: Call to Color, a collaboration with choreographer Stephen Mills and composer Graham Reynolds for the Austin Ballet, TX. In 2007, the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, hosted Hancock's first major European solo show, The Wayward Thinker, which traveled to the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam. Hancock was one of the youngest artists ever to be included in the Whitney Biennial, in both 2000 and 2002. Born in Paris, Texas, the artist currently lives and works in Houston.
Merrily Kerr is an art critic and writer living in New York. She writes regularly for Time Out New York, Art on Paper, Flash Art, Art Asia Pacific and other art magazines and has recently contributed essays to publications produced by Leo Koenig, Inc. and Kravets/Wehby Gallery.
The New York Center for Art and Media Studies (NYCAMS) program offers an academically challenging and structured environment, where young artists encounter contemporary trends in the visual arts and learn how to engage the culture with their creativity. The program is committed to equipping students for a successful career in the arts.
For more information on NYCAMS, please visit www.nycams.bethel.edu
NYCAMS Presents Trenton Doyle Hancock In Conversation with Merrily Kerr
Trenton Doyle Hancock is well known for evolving his absurdist narrative across a wide variety of media that includes painting, collage, sculpture, print and the performing arts. The artist's fourth solo show at James Cohan Gallery, entitled Fear, will include large-scale paintings, wall drawings and prints that continue the story of the epic battle between the Mounds and the Vegans. In this exhibition, forces of good, as represented by Mounds and their color-filled world, and forces of evil, as embodied by the skeletal Vegans who live underground in a world of black and white, reach a state of war. The artist's densely layered paintings incorporate text, drawing, collaged paper, plastic, felt, and fur to create a collision of symbols and visual tropes that evidence Hancock's singular vision and distinctive means of storytelling.Hancock's works can currently be seen in Prospect.1 New Orleans Biennial and In the Beginning: Artists Respond to Genesis at the Contemporary Jewish Art Museum, San Francisco, CA. In April 2008, Hancock provided the costume and set design for Cult of Color: Call to Color, a collaboration with choreographer Stephen Mills and composer Graham Reynolds for the Austin Ballet, TX. In 2007, the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, hosted Hancock's first major European solo show, The Wayward Thinker, which traveled to the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam. Hancock was one of the youngest artists ever to be included in the Whitney Biennial, in both 2000 and 2002. Born in Paris, Texas, the artist currently lives and works in Houston.
Merrily Kerr is an art critic and writer living in New York. She writes regularly for Time Out New York, Art on Paper, Flash Art, Art Asia Pacific and other art magazines and has recently contributed essays to publications produced by Leo Koenig, Inc. and Kravets/Wehby Gallery.
The New York Center for Art and Media Studies (NYCAMS) program offers an academically challenging and structured environment, where young artists encounter contemporary trends in the visual arts and learn how to engage the culture with their creativity. The program is committed to equipping students for a successful career in the arts.
For more information on NYCAMS, please visit www.nycams.bethel.edu