Trenton Doyle Hancock: Mind of the Mound Critical Mass

This is the exhibition catalog to accompany Trenton Doyle Hancock's Building 5 exhibition Mind of the Mound: Critical Mass. Part of the cover is an iron-on patch which can be peeled away and ironed on to your favorite article of clothing! Trenton Doyle Hancock has transformed his childhood love of comic books, toys, and superhero culture into his own creation myth. That mythology and the fascinating, multimedia iterations that it has sparked are told in this captivating and revealing book. Accompanied by images of his paintings, drawings, and installations alongside pictures of his own vast toy and pop culture collections as well as pages from his forthcoming graphic novel, the artist traces the birth of the Mounds and Vegans--the plants and mutants that are forever at war--through which he explores good, evil, authority, race, moral relativism, and religion. Hancock takes readers inside his largest exhibition yet at MASS MoCA--a multi-media work that blends sculpture, painting, and in