DATE: January 18, 2009
Fred Tomaselli makes exquisitely rendered paintings on wood panels, combining an array of unorthodox materials suspended in a thick layer of clear, epoxy resin. Medicinal herbs, prescription pills and hallucinogenic plants are combined with images cut from books and magazines: flowers, birds, butterflies, arms, legs and noses. Tomaselli sees his paintings and their compendium of data as windows into a surreal, hallucinatory universe. He lives and works in New York.
During Prospect.1, Hancock's work can be seen at the CAC and Tomaselli's work is on view at the Old U.S. Mint. For information, call (504) 528-3805 or visit www.cacno.org
Prospect.1 Panel Discussion: Trenton Doyle Hancock and Fred Tomaselli In Conversation with Dan Cameron
Trenton Doyle Hancock's giant candy-colored works are suffused with personal mythology and presented at an operatic scale. Through collage, paint, and accumulations of detritus, he creates exuberant and subversive narratives that often involve his alter-ego superhero, "Torpedoboy." 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. Hancock was recently awarded with the 2007 Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize by The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York. He lives and works in Houston, Texas.Fred Tomaselli makes exquisitely rendered paintings on wood panels, combining an array of unorthodox materials suspended in a thick layer of clear, epoxy resin. Medicinal herbs, prescription pills and hallucinogenic plants are combined with images cut from books and magazines: flowers, birds, butterflies, arms, legs and noses. Tomaselli sees his paintings and their compendium of data as windows into a surreal, hallucinatory universe. He lives and works in New York.
During Prospect.1, Hancock's work can be seen at the CAC and Tomaselli's work is on view at the Old U.S. Mint. For information, call (504) 528-3805 or visit www.cacno.org