Trenton Doyle Hancock: The Re-Evolving Door to the Moundverse, installation view, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, January 19–April 22, 2018. Photo: Tom Van Eynde.
“I believe in the democracy of art,” Trenton Doyle Hancock said during his Artist Talk in January. Hancock’s influences are never hidden in his work: the Bible that was central to his upbringing in his Paris, Texas home, comic books, cartoons, video games, Philip Guston, a boyhood imagination that matures…
Vashon instructor Tim Jennings and CAM’s Miriam Ruiz busily prepare the art room for the arriving students. “We’ll need the press, please,” Miriam tells Tim as she unlocks a supply cabinet. Two students stand by the door to the classroom, feigning innocence. “Did you two just lock the door?” Tim…
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