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Trenton Doyle Hancock at James Cohan Gallery

An epic battle between divine beings – scrawny-armed ‘Undom Engle’ on the left and the pink, wolf-like creature ‘Repaint’ to the right – vividly kicks off Trenton Doyle Hancock’s intense new show at James Cohan Gallery. Though it helps to know the language of Hancock’s invented mythology and his recurring characters, each new work is its own richly imagined tale. (At James Cohan Gallery’s Lower East Side location through Nov 27th).

Trenton Doyle Hancock, The She Wolf Amongst Them Fed Undom’s Conundrum, acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 72 x 108 x 4 1/2 inches, 2016.
Trenton Doyle Hancock, The She Wolf Amongst Them Fed Undom’s Conundrum, acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 72 x 108 x 4 1/2 inches, 2016.

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)