In this film, artist Trenton Doyle Hancock confronts issues of race and power. By harnessing painting, graphic novels and art history, he builds a world around his avatar Torpedo Boy in an ongoing narrative of superheroes and villains.
In this episode, Trenton Doyle Hancock discusses the materiality at play throughout his practice and his experimental self-portraits.
Watch Trenton Doyle Hancock discuss the genesis of the Exchange paintings, which feature his superhero alter ego Torpedo Boy facing off against the buffoonish Klansmen that populated Philip Guston’s paintings.