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Article: Food for thought: Trenton Doyle Hancock and Ballet Austin's rousing collaborative performance centers on a struggle between color-loving, meat-eating Mounds and misanthropic, white-skinned Vegans.(DANCE)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- September 1, 2008
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Trenton Doyle Hancock is known for sprawling installations that spill over gallery walls and floors in a three-dimensional torrent of handwritten words and cartoonish images. Figures tend to be fragmented and partial; space is compressed, with multiple perspectives collapsed onto a single plane; and flashes of color weave throughout the otherwise black-and-white proceedings, operating at times almost as active participants in the drama.
All conspire, in most of Hancock's recent work, to relate an ongoing epic of cosmic battle between Mounds and Vegans, influenced at once by Raw Comics, an evangelical upbringing and, more idiosyncratically, by the artist's ...