Trenton Doyle Hancock at James Cohan Gallery

Trenton Doyle Hancock, Plate of Shrimp, acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 2012.
Trenton Doyle Hancock, Plate of Shrimp, acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 2012.

For a decade, Trenton Doyle Hancock’s busy, messy and captivating collages told the tales of his invented creatures – the Mounds and the Vegans.  He leaves those characters behind in his latest solo show at Chelsea’s James Cohan Gallery, but not before making this disconcerting self-portrait in which his eye and mostly removed face emerges from the open maw of a screaming, striped Mound. (through Dec 22nd)