Trenton Doyle Hancock

So Saturday mornings are usually filled with homework for my contemprary art class.  We have been focusing on art from 1900 on and holy crap is there a lot of it.  I think in my undergrad art history classes stopped around the 1950s  and then I really got into learning about pre-columbian art history (art in Mexico and the Central and South Americas before Europeans joined the party).  This week we looked at the role of text in art I stumbled upon artist Trenton Doyle Hancock who originally set out to be a comic book artist yet in his fine art pieces has created a stories with  repeating characters. This class has surely been challenging my idea of art.  I starting to realize that I am more of a traditionalist that I thought. I really love the vibrancy and chaoticness of his works.  There is a great ART 21 video of his thought process.  If anything is hording tendencies and rationalization of them are facinating enough. 

(images via John Cohan Gallery)