Oct 04, 2018 - Sale 2487

Sale 2487 - Lot 185

Price Realized: $ 3,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK (1974 - )
Various Ossi-Units and Good Vegan Detritus #4.

Mixed media on wove paper, 2007. 248x159 mm; 10x6 1/4 inches. Signed, titled and dated in pencil, lower edge verso.

Provenance: private collection, Pennsylvania.

Exhibited: Fear. James Cohan Gallery, New York, November 20, 2008 - January 10, 2009; Trenton Doyle Hancock: Reveal. Galleria Marabini, Bologna, Italy, January 24 - April 12, 2008, with the labels on the frame back.

Born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1974, Trenton Doyle Hancock earned his BFA from Texas A&M University and his MFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Philadelphia. Using a variety of media Hancock assembles compositions infused with both personal and cultural mythologies. He references comics and superheroes, pulp fiction and pop cultures in intriguing narratives that plays on light and dark, good and evil and everything in between. Hancock has been greatly influenced by Hieronymus Bosch, Max Ernst, Henry Darger, Philip Guston and R. Crumb. His work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Studio Museum of Harlem, Dallas Museum of Art and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.