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548 First St NE, 2013


About the artist

Hancock lives and works in Houston, where he was a 2002 Core Artist in Residence at the Glassell School of Art of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. He was featured in the 2000 and 2002 Whitney Biennial exhibitions, becoming one of the youngest artists in history to participate in this prestigious survey. His work has been the subject of one-person exhibitions at the University of South Florida, Tampa; Savannah College of Art and Design; Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami. Hancock’s prints, drawings, and collaged felt paintings work together to tell the story of the Mounds—a group of mythical creatures that are the tragic protagonists of the artist’s unfolding narrative.

548 First St NE (16 prints by Trenton Doyle Hancock), is an autobiographical and visually explosive portfolio based on childhood memories in Hancock’s grandparent’s house in Paris, TX. The prints in the portfolio utilize many processes including silkscreen, photogravure, lithography, and etching.. Each print is 24"x19" with an edition size of 14, housed, with a title page, in a custom-made, linen-covered clamshell box.

mixed print techniques

24 x 19 inches

Edition of 14

Master Printer Tom Reed

Methods Chine-collé
Etching
Lithography
Photogravure
Relief
Screenprinting


Included in the portfolio


Image of portfolio title page of black text on light blue paper
Image of black text screen printed on a white background spelling out the nursery rhyme, "Old King Cole".
Screen print of floor tile pattern of brown, orange, and yellows, with cartoon eyeballs place on the tiles. The word TWITTY is printed below.
Screen print of upside down black letters over light blue shapes printed above a yellow rectangle with black and red circles printed in a grid pattern on top
Screen print of abstracted connect four game with a yellow rectangle at the top, pale blue structures below, and red and black checkers throughout the image
Image of printed black text on a white background spelling out the nursery rhyme "Hey Diddle, Diddle"
Photographic print of a small white stuffed animal on a black background
Screen print of intertwining tree branches with hand-drawn text banners woven in between in black and green
Screen print of intertwining tree branches with hand-drawn text banners woven in between in green and black
Screenprint of black letters on a white background spelling out the nursery rhyme "Little Boy Blue"  in irregular segments
image of white mannequin head on black background
Image of black text screen printed on a white background spelling out the nursery rhyme, "Buckle My Shoe"
Blue and pink squirrel screen print of a headless squirrel carcass
Image of black screen printed text on white paper spelling out the words to the nursery rhyme "Little Miss Muffet"
Image of black screen printed text on white paper spelling out the words to the nursery rhyme "Little Miss Muffet"
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Image of the letter "z" repeated in various sizes and black and white with the words "white noise" at the bottom
Image of the front cover of the portfolio box for 548 First St. NE; printed white text on a pale blue rectangle on a cream portfolio
Interior of portfolio box displaying green, yellow, and pink printed shapes reminiscent of 1970s wallpaper