What do you get when a consummate graphic talent and profound thinker spends two years in Covid seclusion? “Good Grief, Bad Grief,” Trenton Doyle Hancock’s second exhibition in Los Angeles. A group of roiling, byzantine mixed-media paintings detail the urban development of the Vegans, central characters in Hancock’s fictional universe. Three Vegan suburbs and one city (each the subject of an individual work), as well as the epically cinematic The Skint Alterpiece: Vegans Make Deposits at the Tofu Bank, 2020, are rendered in black, white, and touches of red. Hancock’s images are as antic as ever,
Exploring a mythology that spans over twenty-five years, Trenton Doyle Hancock has created a cast of characters, a lexicon of symbols, and an evolving.
Trenton Doyle Hancock’s exhibition, 'Good Grief, Bad Grief' an exploration of race, class, identity and power opens at Shulamit Nazarian gallery on Saturday.