Trenton Doyle Hancock: Skin and Bones: 20 Years of Drawing
Author: Trenton Doyle Hancock, Valerie Cassel Oliver, Brooke Davis Anderson
Publisher: Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston
Year: 2014
Pages: 151
ISBN: 978-1933619507
Comprehensive in scope, this two-decade survey includes works from 1984 to 2014, uncovering the foundation of Trenton Doyle Hancock’s prolific career while chronicling the cast of colorful characters that he has brought to life. What emerges is a wide range of influences, including comics, graphic novels, cartoons, music, film and visual art-- the entire sweep of high and lower connections.
While Hancock’s paintings have become widely known, his extensive body of drawings, collages, and works on paper-- both discrete and monumental-- have not been fully explored.
This publication provides a glimpse into the evolution of the artist’s idiosyncratic vision by showing viewers the genesis of his mythology-- including the epic Mound saga-- as well as the larger development of his practice. Trenton Doyle Hancock: Skin and Bones, 20 Years of Drawing reveals the artist’s concentration on the line, his approach to the tradition of drawing, and his ability to implode that tradition through mark-making dexterity, compositional skill, and conceptual weight.
