Dec. 9, 2008

After going over the syllabus and discussing what projects we will do this term, we watched a video clip of the artist Trenton Doyle Hancock from the series art:21.

Everyone liked his art work. He makes large paintings, collage/mixed media works, and small drawings of comic book type characters. He features characters named "Mounds," "Torpedo Man," "Painter," and "Loid."

The class consenus, however, was that personally Hancock is "too obsessed with childhood, with collecting all of his childhood toys" and that "he keeps everything, and that isn't healthy." Hancock's studio was filled with what he calls 'mounds' of stuff: ballons, papers, photographs...he even kept drawings from when he was 10.
"He should learn to throw stuff away."

Want to see some of the video clip on Hancock? Go to the pbs website, scroll down and pick a section to watch. Click here