Shulamit Nazarian
Art Los Angeles Contemporary 2018

For ALAC 2018, Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present new and recent mixed-media paintings and drawings by Houston-based Trenton Doyle Hancock. This will be the artist's first solo presentation in Los Angeles.

Hancock’s elaborate works interlace personal memoir with the history of painting and pop-cultural pulp imagery. As the son of Baptist parents, Hancock’s childhood was immersed in resonant biblical themes, whose power persisted even as their religious specificity waned later in his life. As Hancock states, however, "these archetypes of heroes going through toil and trouble and coming out all the better for it" have been central to the way he constructs narrative.