Trenton Doyle Hancock b. 1974

Struggle and transformation are ideas that are extended throughout the exhibition. In several works, including the monumental painting titled The Skint Alterpiece: Vegans Make Deposits at the Tofu Bank, we find elaborate Vegan cities that are populated with Hancock’s nefarious subjects engaging in debauchery with a level of density and detail that is reminiscent of sixteenth-century Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch. These sprawling and intricate cityscapes show the Vegans at the height of their civilization, extracting and processing their natural resources in large factories to create tofu. These Vegan cities and suburbs provide a grand space for Hancock to enact various narratives, struggles, and sub-plots on a single work of art.