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Trenton Doyle Hancock
Hancock makes prints, drawings, and collaged felt paintings which tell stories of a fantastical nature. The characters which populate his imaginary worlds include the Mounds, half-animal, half-plant creatures, which are preyed upon by evil beings called vegans. The usual meaning of the word vegan is a human who avoids leather, meat, milk and other products considered by the vegan lifestyle to be unethical, but in Trenton Doyle Hancock's work these people with their ethical lifestyle are merely being used by these "vegan" creatures. The style of Doyle's paintings and other visual work appears to be influenced by abstract expressionism, surrealism and "bad art".
Hancock’s glow-in-the-dark 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, ape man and woman, 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.
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 most recent exhibition at James Cohan Gallery in March 2006.
Links to other sites related to the artist:
PBS: Trenton Doyle Hancock
UsInfo: Trenton Doyle Hancock
Institute of Contemporary Art
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