Trenton Doyle Hancock-"You Are A Liar And The Truth Is NOT In You"

Mr. Trenton painting "You Are A Liar And The Truth Is NOT In You" is a large mixed-media work hanging on the wall. A pair of tombstones function at once as fore- and background for a raining-down of collagiste forms. One is in pink and the other in black, and together they bear the words of the ominous title. Small and large swatches of fabric, some with impasto others without, vie with drawings in graphite and pink teardrops fashioned from the negative cut-outs of a layer of black canvas on top. His works gives and creates his own mythology to inform his massive, obsessive, and intricately, detailed and painting. He uses color, language and pattern to give me a way to understand why he creating a new character to convey a symbolic meaning.  Lastly he uses biblical elements, with references to religious stories that the artist learned as a child from his family and his community.  I am so amaze by the balancing of the moral dilemmas with humor and through a musical sense of language and colour.  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’s prints, drawings, and collaged-felt paintings work together to tell the story of the Mounds—a group of mythical creatures that are the tragic protagonists of the artist’s unfolding narrative....