Trenton Doyle Hancock | The Re-Evolving Door to the Moundverse

Hales Gallery is pleased to announce Trenton Doyle Hancock's upcoming exhibition The Re-Evolving Door to the Moundverse held at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.

 

Through painting, sculpture, and video, Hancock has created a mythological world, one in which an ongoing epic battle rages between good and evil. Raised in a religious home in Paris, Texas, where music, storytelling, and the Bible were central to his upbringing, the Houston-based artist makes art that, at least in part, is a fusion of those influences, along with his avid interests in comic books, films, cartoons, and video games. Beginning in childhood and continuing into his career as a mature artist, Hancock has developed intricate stories around the birth, death, life, and afterlife of the wild menagerie of characters he has conceived. In his most recent work, a more personal narrative has begun to emerge, which is evident in the exhibition with the inclusion of several self-portraits.  

 

Central to Hancock’s foundation myth is the Moundverse, where the protagonist Mounds—hybrid creatures, half-plant, half-animal, living in forests—are in constant threat from the Vegans, underground beings whose sole purpose is either to destroy or exploit the Mounds. Although the desperate plight of the Mounds is often treated as comedy, Hancock’s stories can also supply serious commentary on politics, race, identity, class, and social justice in our own everyday world.

 

Trenton Doyle Hancock: The Re-Evolving Door to the Moundverse is organised for the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis by Wassan Al-Khudhairi, Chief Curator.

 

 

Trenton Doyle Hancock

Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis

3750 Washington Blvd

St. Louis

MO 63108

USA

 

19 January - 22 April 2018

 

For more information please visit the CAM St. Louis website here.