Join artist Trenton Doyle Hancock for a guided walkthrough of the newly opened exhibition Draw Them In, Paint Them Out: Trenton Doyle Hancock Confronts Philip Guston.

This exhibition brings together the artwork of Philip Guston and Trenton Doyle Hancock, two trailblazing American artists of different generations—one Jewish, one Black—whose lives, both personal and creative, share unexpected and often remarkable connections. 

Highlighting both artists’ investigations of the entwined legacies of white supremacy, racism, and antisemitism in the United States in ways that are emotionally raw and darkly humorous, Hancock walks us through the exhibition and his artistic conversation with Guston for the past thirty years.

Trenton Doyle Hancock was born in 1974 in Oklahoma City, OK. Raised in Paris, Texas, Hancock earned his BFA from Texas A&M University, Commerce, and his MFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Philadelphia. For almost two decades, Trenton Doyle Hancock has been constructing his own fantastical narrative that continues to develop and inform his prolific artistic output. Part fictional, part autobiographical, Hancock’s work pulls from his own personal experience, the art historical canon, comics and superheroes, pulp fiction, and myriad other pop culture references, resulting in a complex amalgamation of characters and plots possessing universal concepts of light and dark, good and evil, and all the grey in between. Hancock’s work is in the permanent collections of institutions including the Menil Collection, Houston; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; among others.