Color Crop
Artist-Led Audio Guide
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Broadway between 41st and 49th Streets
New York, NY
Start:
Feb 1, 2025
End:
Feb 28, 2025
Nightly, 11:57pm – 12am
View Public Programming
Broadway between 41st and 49th Streets
New York, NY
Start:
Feb 1, 2025
End:
Feb 28, 2025
Nightly, 11:57pm – 12am
View Public Programming
Presented with James Cohan
Over the past two decades, artist Trenton Doyle Hancock has created fantastical worlds inspired by his personal experiences, superheroes, pulp fiction, art history, and myriad pop culture references. Centering around universal narratives of dark and light, Hancock’s paintings, installations, and animations often feature the saga of the Mounds: a group of mythological half-animal, half-plant creatures with interconnecting narratives and physical forms inspired by the Garbage Pail Kids, the Tower of Babel, a beehive, and even the mashed potato tower from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
In Color Crop, a cartoon avatar of Hancock himself encounters Mound #1, the Legend in a forest-like setting. The furry, clown-like creature emits colorful pigments which Hancock harvests and carries away through a series of playful techniques involving buckets, a fork, drumsticks, and a straw.
Hancock’s Midnight Moment coincides with Draw Them In, Paint Them Out: Trenton Doyle Hancock Confronts Philip Guston, an exhibition at the Jewish Museum, New York, on view through March 30, 2025.
Color Crop (2018), Digital Animation, Courtesy the Artist & James Cohan, New York
Presented with James Cohan
Over the past two decades, artist Trenton Doyle Hancock has created fantastical worlds inspired by his personal experiences, superheroes, pulp fiction, art history, and myriad pop culture references. Centering around universal narratives of dark and light, Hancock’s paintings, installations, and animations often feature the saga of the Mounds: a group of mythological half-animal, half-plant creatures with interconnecting narratives and physical forms inspired by the Garbage Pail Kids, the Tower of Babel, a beehive, and even the mashed potato tower from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
In Color Crop, a cartoon avatar of Hancock himself encounters Mound #1, the Legend in a forest-like setting. The furry, clown-like creature emits colorful pigments which Hancock harvests and carries away through a series of playful techniques involving buckets, a fork, drumsticks, and a straw.
Hancock’s Midnight Moment coincides with Draw Them In, Paint Them Out: Trenton Doyle Hancock Confronts Philip Guston, an exhibition at the Jewish Museum, New York, on view through March 30, 2025.
Color Crop (2018), Digital Animation, Courtesy the Artist & James Cohan, New York
James Cohan is a contemporary art gallery with two locations in New York's Tribeca neighborhood, and a third gallery space on the Lower East Side. Its diverse programming includes solo exhibitions of represented artists and two thematic group exhibitions every year, which often span the three galleries. For 25 years, the gallery has been dedicated to championing the work of a global roster of exceptional artists that include Yinka Shonibare CBE, Fred Tomaselli, Teresa Margolles, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Bill Viola, Naudline Pierre, Elias Sime, and Gauri Gill.
Support for Midnight Moment is provided in part by the National Endowment for the Arts; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; and the Times Square Advertising Coalition, with additional in-kind support from the Times Square EDITION Hotel. Midnight Moment is made possible by the Times Square Advertising Coalition, ABC SuperSign, American Eagle, Big Outdoor, Branded Cities, Clear Channel, Coca-Cola, Diversified, Express, Heritage Outdoor Media, Levi's, LG, Line Friends, McDonald's, Microsoft, Midtown Financial, Morgan Stanley, New Tradition, Outfront, Paramount, Prudential, Sensory Interactive, Sephora, Sherwood Equities, Show + Tell, Silvercast, Swatch, TSX, and T-Mobile.
James Cohan is a contemporary art gallery with two locations in New York's Tribeca neighborhood, and a third gallery space on the Lower East Side. Its diverse programming includes solo exhibitions of represented artists and two thematic group exhibitions every year, which often span the three galleries. For 25 years, the gallery has been dedicated to championing the work of a global roster of exceptional artists that include Yinka Shonibare CBE, Fred Tomaselli, Teresa Margolles, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Bill Viola, Naudline Pierre, Elias Sime, and Gauri Gill.
Broadway between 41st and 49th Streets
New York, NY
Nightly, 11:57pm – 12am
Courtesy the artist and James Cohan New York
Trenton Doyle Hancock was born in 1974 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Raised in Paris, Texas, Hancock earned his BFA from Texas A&M University, Commerce, and his MFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Philadelphia. Hancock was featured in the 2000 and 2002 Whitney Biennial exhibitions, one of the youngest artists in history to participate in this prestigious survey. His work has been the subject of one-person exhibitions at Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; and Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami. The recipient of numerous awards, Hancock lives and works in Houston, where he was a 2002 Core Artist in Residence at the Glassell School of Art of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
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Trenton Doyle Hancock
Trenton Doyle Hancock was born in 1974 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Raised in Paris, Texas, Hancock earned his BFA from Texas A&M University, Commerce, and his MFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Philadelphia. Hancock was featured in the 2000 and 2002 Whitney Biennial exhibitions, one of the youngest artists in history to participate in this prestigious survey. His work has been the subject of one-person exhibitions at Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; and Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami. The recipient of numerous awards, Hancock lives and works in Houston, where he was a 2002 Core Artist in Residence at the Glassell School of Art of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
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Trenton Doyle Hancock
Trenton Doyle Hancock was born in 1974 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Raised in Paris, Texas, Hancock earned his BFA from Texas A&M University, Commerce, and his MFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Philadelphia. Hancock was featured in the 2000 and 2002 Whitney Biennial exhibitions, one of the youngest artists in history to participate in this prestigious survey. His work has been the subject of one-person exhibitions at Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; and Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami. The recipient of numerous awards, Hancock lives and works in Houston, where he was a 2002 Core Artist in Residence at the Glassell School of Art of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
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Trenton Doyle Hancock
