Curator Discussion: Copley, Comics, and Alternative Figures in American Art

The Menil Collection presents Copley, Comics, and Alternative Figures in American Art. Curator Toby Kamps in conversation with artists Dan Nadel and Trenton Doyle Hancock.

Dan Nadel is a New York curator, critic, and bookseller. His books include Art Out of Time (Unknown Comics Visionaries) and Art in Time (Unknown Comic Book Adventures).

In 2014, Nadel curated What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art: 1960 to the Present at the RISD Museum, a project which included work by William N. Copley and laid out “a hidden history of American figurative painting, sculpture and popular imagery.”

Houston artist Trenton Doyle Hancock is a painter and drawer, who, like Copley, has crafted his own eccentric, fantastical visual universe. Hancock’s 2006 book Me A Mound was edited and published by Dan Nadel.

With exhibition curator Toby Kamps, Nadel and Hancock will discuss Copley in the tradition of eccentric figuration in the United States and his influence on contemporary artists.

Free Admission. Seating Limited.

RELATED EXHIBITION: William N. Copley: The World According to CPLY.

Pictured: Dan Nadel; Trenton Doyle Hancock, 2011, courtesy Savannah College of Art and Design. (Trenton Doyle Hancock above).

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