SARATOGA SPRINGS — Acclaimed multidisciplinary artist Trenton Doyle Hancock will deliver the sixth-annual Winter/Miller Lecture at the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, 6 p.m. Thursday, March 30. The in-person event is free and open to the public.
Hancock, who lives and works in Houston, Texas, is widely praised for melding comic book aesthetics, religion, race, and storytelling in exuberant paintings, drawings, and installations. In a fantastical narrative he’s developed for almost two decades, the character Torpedo Boy functions as the artists’ alter ego who protects the benevolent Mounds from the wrath of the Vegans of the underworld.
Previous Winter/Miller Lectures were delivered by Nicole Eisenman, 2018; Chris Ware, 2019; Wangechi Mutu, 2020; Nick Cave, 2021; and Juliana Huxtable, 2022.
Hancock, who was born in 1974 in Oklahoma City, first achieved national prominence when, in 2000, he was one of the youngest artists included in the Whitney Biennial Exhibition. Since then, he has had numerous solo exhibitions around the world.
More information at tang.skidmore.edu
