SILENT LUXURY AUCTION Featuring Design, Dining, Destination, Luxury Fashion and Curated Experiences

SILENT ART AUCTION Featuring Limited editions by past and upcoming Locust Projects artists

CATALOGUE SNEAK PEEK!!

Register in advance to receive your bid number by contacting [email protected]

Catalogue offerings as of April 6, 2019, information and details subject to change. Proceeds benefit programming at Locust Projects, a registered 501c3 not-for-profit

DESIGN and LIFESTYLE:

Minotti Flynt Wood Chair

A design collaboration between Minotti and Rodolfo Dordoni, this Flynt “Wood Base” has a solid ash base with lacquered Moka finish distinguished by clean, sleek design for an extensive array of uses and easy pairing with tables or desks with various types of finish.

Gretel Home “Kaleidoscopic Bundle”- Tabletop Rainbow, Arc Pattern Puzzle, Lenticular Puzzle, and Hana Flower Pencils

Two colorful puzzles designed by Dusen Dusen of Brooklyn, a table/desktop rainbow handmade in Australia by Bride & Wolfe, and a set of eco-friendly Hana pencils by Trinus that reveal flower- shaped shavings when sharpened.

JetSet Miami LOT 1: Brickell/10 Classes LOT 2: Wynwood/10 Classes

JetSet offers a variety of guided workouts and training programs to fit every body and fitness goal, including resistance- based weight training and pilates, cardio, and strengthening as well as an in-house nutritionist.

Vanity Projects $70 Gift Certificate

Since 2013, Vanity Projects has hosted over 100 leading international artists through its artist in residence program at its NY and Miami locations. With a focus on elevating the technical and aesthetic level of the craft of nail art, the company offers clients a unique opportunity to have their nails done by the best international talent.

Moleskine Limited Edition Bradley Theodor Moleskine and Books

The Bradley Theodore Capsule Collection takes the Moleskine Classic Notebook and Classic Backpack, both designed to celebrate the look, feel and function of the original legendary notebook, and gives them a powerful street art edge. Striking on the outside, but blank canvases on the inside, these notebooks and individually numbered backpacks make space for your own ideas, thoughts and unique creative contents.

Mrs. Mandolin Gift Basket of Pantry Items

A lifestyle shop and café, Mrs. Mandolin transports your home and your table to the places you long to be. The shop is filled with hand- selected goods from artisans around the world and features daily baked goods inspired by Mrs. Mandolin’s Greek pantry.

Jonathan Adler Dora Maar Urn and VIP Card

Jonathan Adler’s Dora Maar Urn features an unglazed finish highlighting the muse's flawless features in fabulously delicate detail. Inspired by Dora Maar, the French photographer, poet, and painter best known for being a lover and muse of Pablo Picasso. The VIP card gives the holder a 25% discount on a one-time purchase.

Red Herring Pottery Soda Fired Teapot and wheel class for 4 with James Herring

This teapot by master potter James Herring exemplifies the artist’s latest efforts in attempting to use carbon trapping in conjunction with soda firing. e right amount of early reduction produces the grays in the unglazed portions and the slow cooling allows for crystal formation in the turquoise glaze. The pinks and turquoise stand out for dramatic effect. The piece is 8- 1/2 x 6 x 5 inches and holds about 3 cups or 24 oz.

DINING:

Joe’s Stone Crab $100 Gift Certificate

For more than 100 years, no visit to Miami has been complete without Joe's Stone Crab. From the beginning, it has always been the love of food, family, and friends that has brought in customers and kept them coming. Again and again, Joe's owners and employees credit the restaurant's success to its family solidarity.

Salumeria 104 $100 Gift Certificate (2 lots)

Salumeria 104 is a rustic, trattoria- style restaurant serving signature salumi dishes (artisan Italian cured meats) and traditional, house made Italian classics prepared with the finest, freshest ingredients. Chef & Co-Owner Angelo Masarin is intent on creating dishes inspired by his childhood, such as the ones his grandmother taught him.

The menu focuses on seasonal ingredients as well as a variety of imported salumi that is exclusive to Salumeria 104 dine in or purchase by the pound.

Soho Beach House 1 Night Stay in a Beachside 3 room and Dinner at Cecconis for 2 (valued at $250)

Founded by Soho House, a private club for the film and creative industries, this art-deco building on swanky beachside Collins Avenue offers rooms to nonmembers. Luxe quarters, filled with antiques, have a retro 1950's or European style. They include free Wi-Fi and flat-screens, and some have terraces, soaking tubs and ocean views. Room night and dinner at Cecconi’s must be used at the same time.

Mandolin Aegean Bistro $250 Gift Certificate

Inspired by the tavernas of Aegean coastal towns, Mandolin Aegean Bistro was opened by husband and wife team Ahmet Erkaya and Anastasia Koutsioukis in Miami in 2009 serving homespun recipes from Greece and Turkey. After a trip to Miami they stumbled upon an old 1940s bungalow and decided to move from New York and open their dream restaurant serving simple, unpretentious, healthy food using the freshest ingredients in a welcoming atmosphere being surrounded by a happy team and amazing people.

EXPERIENCES:

DIRECTOR’S TOUR: Pérez Art Museum Miami / Dining at Verde Admission for 4, Private Tour with Director Franklin Sirmans, $125 Verde Restaurant Gift Certificate

Miami’s flagship art museum, PAMM aims to be a leader in the presentation, study, interpretation, and care of international modern and contemporary art, while representing Miami-Dade and cherishing the unique viewpoint of its peoples. Through our exhibitions and programs, we aim to encourage everyone to see art as an incentive for genuine human interaction, communication, and exchange.

DIRECTOR’S TOUR: The Bass Museum of Art Admission for 4, Private Tour of Shelia Hicks: Campo Abierto (Open Field)

The Bass is Miami Beach’s contemporary art museum. Focusing on exhibitions of international contemporary art, The Bass presents mid-career and established artists reflecting the spirit and international character of Miami Beach. Grouping works of art from various periods, Campo Abierto (Open Field) explores the formal, social and environmental aspects of landscape that have been present, yet rarely examined, throughout Sheila Hicks’ expansive career. The exhibition brings together several large-format installations, as well as more intimately-scaled works, that utilize and transform the architecture of The Bass’ upstairs galleries.

CURATOR’S TOUR: Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami Private tour for 4, ICA NEXT 365 membership, and catalogue for inaugural exhibition The Everywhere Studio

The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami) is dedicated to promoting continuous experimentation in contemporary art, advancing new scholarship, and fostering the exchange of art and ideas throughout the Miami region and internationally.

PRIVATE TOUR: Rubell Family Collection Private Tour for 4 and Purvis Young Exhibition Catalogue

In Miami, Florida, since 1993, the RFC is exhibited within a 45,000-square-foot repurposed Drug Enforcement Agency confiscated goods facility. The Contemporary Arts Foundation was created in 1994 by Mera and Don Rubell with their son Jason Rubell to expand the RFC’s public mission inside the paradigm of a contemporary art museum. Each year the foundation presents thematic exhibitions drawn from the collection with accompanying catalogs.

CURATORS TOUR: Norton Museum of Art Admission for 4, Private Tour with Curator, $125 Gift Certificate to The Restaurant

The new building and accompanying lush sculpture garden, opened to the public on February 9, 2019, enabling the Norton to exhibit more art, present more programs, and provide a growing, but culturally underserved community with a breathtaking, brighter, more welcoming, up-to-date center for the public to engage with -- and enjoy -- art and culture.

DIRECTORS TOUR: NSU Art Museum Admission for 4, Private Tour, TBD Gift Certificate to the Cafe Founded in 1958, NSU Art Museum is a premier destination for exhibitions and programs encompassing all facets of civilization’s visual history. The Museum’s international exhibition program, which aims to challenge viewers’ perceptions of the world around them, is overseen by its visionary Director and Chief Curator Bonnie Clearwater, who joined the Museum in 2013.

The Cliff Hotel, Jamaica A Three Night Stay in a Junior Suite, subject to availability. Expires December 15, 2019. Blackout Dates: Aug 1-8, 2019.

Nestled within five acres of lush tranquility overlooking the Caribbean Sea, this exclusive hotel is a quintessential blend of authentic Jamaican hospitality meets cosmopolitan sensibilities. With only 22 suites and 4 private villas, it’s small enough to be intimate, yet large enough to provide all the five-star amenities, you’d expect from a luxury, island resort. With a world-class restaurant, yoga pavilion, fitness center, beauty salon, saltwater pool, and Spa, The Cliff Hotel is more than just a place to lay your head. It’s a complete destination. The perfect place to escape with friends, lovers or family.

The Standard Spa, Miami Beach 6 Month Wellness Membership

The Standard Membership gives you access to all the amenities of The Standard Spa, Miami Beach, including the Hamam, Aroma Steam Room, Cedar Sauna, Infinity Pool, Roman Waterfall Hot Tub, and gym. You’ll also receive unlimited yoga and fitness classes, discounts on food and drinks, spa services and classes, valet parking, hotel rooms and more.

LIV VIP Package for 6-8, including one bottle each of Magnum Belvedere Vodka and Veuve Clicquot Yellow Label champagne

An unforgettable experience for you and six (6) friends at the hottest and most exclusive club. You and your guests will be treated like VIP's from the moment you arrive, as you are escorted to your own VIP seating area, with one complimentary bottle of Magnum Belvedere and one bottle of Yellow Label champagne will be included. This does not include tax or gratuity. Settle in for an extraordinary night of great music, entertainment and dancing.

Elysze Held Styling Session, Shopping Spree at BA&SH and Lunch with Elysze Held with Private Car Cervice by Above & Beyond Transportation

In South Florida, the name Elysze Held is synonymous with style—she began her heralded career in San Francisco: I. Magnin, and Wilkes Bashford, both iconic establishments in the field of luxury fashion, and has been in every part of the fashion industry as a stylist, producer, fashion director and fashion editor. Elysze is the former fashion and visual director of Florida landmarks Lillie Rubin Stores and Burdines. Elysze was voted “Miami’s #1 Stylist” by the Miami Modern Luxury Magazine Reader’s Poll for 2016. She has provided on-air fashion commentary for CBS 4 South Florida as the Red Carpet Fashion Expert during the Oscar and Emmy Awards’ Season since 2013 through 2017.

WeWork 3 Month Hot Desk Membership at WeWork Security Building

WeWork has crafted an enormous, conveniently located coworking space that caters to your business’s every need—perfect for teams of any size or industry. Downtown Miami is the city’s bustling epicenter, packed with skyscrapers, gorgeous bay views, and decades of history. Don’t miss out on this wonderful workspace opportunity.

House of Lilac $100 Gift Certificate for Floral Delivery

House of Lilac is a premium flower company based in Miami that delivers flower bouquets and arrangements across the city and delivers and ships curated gifts. What started as founder Melanie Fernandez's passion for curating small batch gift product has evolved into sourcing and styling the freshest and most beautiful and unique flower bouquets and arrangements. House of Lilac sources its flowers fresh, a stylistic and artistically driven process, and takes same day delivery orders until 12, hand delivers both flowers and gifts locally in Miami every day except Sunday, and ships gifts with dried flower bundles nationwide.

Le Basque Catering $1,000 Gift Certificate

Le Basque is a full-service catering and event design company, celebrated for curating events distinguished by their simplistic elegance; la vie normale. With a meticulous eye for detail, Le Basque provides bespoke catering and elite coordination and planning services for private occasions, weddings and corporate events. Whether the feel is traditional or contemporary, Le Basque’s professional team of event planners and culinary experts will always exceed expectations.

The Plaza Hotel Two (2) Night Stay in a Deluxe Room

Since its debut on October 1, 1907, The Plaza Hotel has remained a New York icon hosting world leaders, dignitaries, captains of industry, Broadway legends, and Hollywood royalty. As an established staple for lavish society affairs and blockbuster films, The Plaza has welcomed guests from around the world to enjoy its magic at the castle on Central Park South for more than 100 years. Ideally situated on Fifth Avenue, The Plaza’s prestigious address continues to define elegance with unmatched service and an ever-evolving modern sensibility.

Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts Four Center Box Seats for Broadway's hit Lion King and access to the Terra Group Patrons Club on Sunday, May 19, 2019 at 6:30

The Surf Club Four Seasons Indulge yourself with a Luxurious Day Experience at Four Seasons Hotel at The Surf Club.

This spectacular day is inclusive of a Day Use Cabana, Lunch for two at Mare restaurant. Valid May -November 15, 2019 upon availability.

Marie Robinson Salon Miami Gift Certificate for Color, Cut and Blow Dry

A go-to New York City institution for professional hair care, the Marie Robinson Salon is well known in the fashion and entertainment industries for the raw creativity and trendsetting style of its world- renowned celebrity colorists, hair stylists and makeup artists.

Now with its recently established location in Miami’s Little River neighborhood that mirrors the New York salon’s unparalleled expertise and quality of service, the Marie Robinson Salon continues to grow its popularity and loyal following.

FASHION

Rag & Bone Private Styling Experience for 10 at Miami Design District Location, including $500 Gift Certificate, Prosecco, and Light Bites

Mont Blanc Mont Blanc Cuff Links in Box

Meisterstück cufflinks celebrate understated style and elegance. The timeless round shape with a black onyx inlay creates a jewel with a powerful Montblanc signature.

Neiman Marcus $2,500 Gift Certificate

Neiman Marcus offers unparalleled collections of the highest quality clothing, shoes, handbags and cosmetics from world-renowned designers for men, women and children. Come visit Neiman Marcus and let their exceptional staff help you create an amazing shopping experience.

Certificate valid through July 25, 2019. Must be regular priced merchandise. Items must be available in-store; no online orders or transfer requests. Jewelry excluded. Leased departments excluded. Must be redeemed in one day- items not to exceed 5. All sales final. Must have an appointment with the PR Department to redeem Monday-Friday only.

FENDI “By the Way” handbag

The Fendi By the Way bags are effortlessly stylish with cool details at every turn. The roomy shape is super versatile, easily matching with both casual looks and more sophisticated ensembles.

Linda Florence Limited Edition Silk Scarf

With an innovative approach to style, Linda Florence’s limited-edition pieces marry art, pattern and bold color with feminine expression and an art-inspired signature fashion look that defines the collections.

Each piece, made of pure silk, allows you to express your own individuality and joy of color. The patterns are inspired by transforming the essence of her photographs of nature, unique images and her own artwork into colorful silk style. This translation of photographs, collages, drawings and paintings into style, re-interprets color and fashion in a whole new way!

Soledad Lowe Reckon Hoops with Pearls. Sterling Silver - Rhodium Plated with Cultivated Pearls. Diam 4.5 - 5 cm. Pearl 10 mm

Soledad Lowe is an FGA Gemologist, Jewelry Designer and Jeweler. Born in Argentina, raised in Sweden, she spent years in NYC and London.

Zimmermann Tempest Ballet Dress in Buff / Black, Size 2-4 US from Fall 2018 Runway Collection

This Zimmermann Tempest Ballet Dress features a deep V-neckline with ruching at the bodice and sleeves.

The Webster Private Styling Session and $1,000 Gift Certificate

The Webster is an exclusive luxury multi-brand retailer. Enjoy a private styling session and $1,000 gift certificate to spend in the boutique.

Stubbs & Wootton $525 Value Gift Card for Pair of Slippers in Choice of Color

Launched in 1993 in Palm Beach, Florida - Stubbs & Wootton instantly became recognized as classically elegant and fashion forward. Their tongue-in-cheek designs derive their inspiration including everything from history to surfers. Giving the slipper its due recognition as an all-purpose shoe, Stubbs & Wootton is responsible for making evening slippers relevant once again. Brilliant with a tuxedo. Perfect with shorts, and everything in between, their European production ensures superior quality forever.

TOD’s Custom Gommino Driving Shoe for Men or Women

Italian brand Tod's is world-renowned for its handcraftsmanship and quality leathers and the Gommino Driving Shoe is its most iconic style, so called because of the 133 rubber 'pebbles' or gommini embedded on each sole. An utterly chic style in luxe suede, this versatile flat will work equally well as part of an off-duty outfit as it will with more formal ensembles.

COS $1,000 Gift Certificate

COS is a fashion brand for women and men who want modern, functional and considered design.

Offering reinvented classics and wardrobe essentials, COS creates pieces that are made to last beyond the season, merging traditional methods and new techniques to form timeless, understated collections.

Theory $500 Gift Certificate and Styling Appointment at Theory Miami

Oliver Peoples Boudreau L.A. Sunglasses DM2

SHAPOH Red Laser-Cut felt Headband Designed by Claire Hahn of New Zealand

SHAPOH.com is a one-stop online shop for style-savvy women looking for high-end headpieces created by the world’s foremost milliners and talented up-and-coming designers.

Lulu Guinness Handbag

Since the company’s conception, Lulu Guinness’ intention has always been to be slightly outré and push boundaries. The brand’s creations are regularly seen on the arms of trailblazing women, such as Kate Moss, Fearne Cotton, Emma Watson, Poppy Delevigne, Paloma Faith and Dita Von Teese. They are women with a fierce sense of humour and an even fiercer sense of their own femininity, who dare to venture outside the parameters set by a predominantly trend led fashion industry.

WINE:

Mother Tongue Wine 3 bottles of Mother Tongue Shiraz

Launched by Debra and Dennis Scholl with a 2014 vintage Shiraz, Mother Tongue features grapes sourced from the Kraft family vineyard. Vines are over 80 years old, producing concentrated fruit that lays in rich oak Taransaud barrels for years.

Chasseur Wines 9 bottles of Chasseur

Chasseur Wines is dedicated to small-lot, handcrafted wines in the old French tradition with emphasis on vineyard designates. Our small size allows complete control over the winemaking process, enabling us to produce the finest wines the fruit has to offer. Chasseur Wines is the creation of William Hunter, a 30-year winemaking veteran. The name 'Chasseur' is French for Hunter and celebrates his desire to create Burgundian style wines.

ARTIST LIMITED EDITIONS FEATURING PAST AND UPCOMING LOCUST PROJECTS ARTISTS

Toby Barnes Bal Ganesh 3, Bal Shiva 3, Meenakshi, 2016

The Bal Series (2016) is an exploration of the artist as creator and the themes of birth, fertility, and new beginnings. It is a very personal series that reflects my own life experiences of becoming a father. Each of these paintings engages in this exploration through a practice found in many parts of Asia of painting deities as infants and children. This practice has centered on representations, or avatars, of gods and goddesses as children (“Bal”). It is a practice unique to the region and important to its culture. For this series, I’ve created a tryptic representing three child-like representations of gods: Bal Ganesh—an avatar of the elephant god, god of new beginnings and remover of obstacles; Bal Shiva—an avatar of the god of creation and destruction; and Teenage Minakshi—an avatar of Parvati, the goddess of fertility. The stories of these child avatars often surround narratives of couples who were unable to bear children, who struggled with fertility, and reflect non-traditional births.

Ivan Toth Depeña The Moment (Compiled Process), 2016

The Moment is a chapter in a citywide augmented reality custom mobile application project created by Depeña for Miami-Dade Art in Public Places. This print edition is related to a mural on the side of Locust Projects’ building consisting of a trigger image that springs to life when viewed through the smart phone app that Depeña developed with a team of software engineers.

Jim Drain Shark Tooth (Mauled), 2015 Cast bronze, Edition of 60

Artist Jim Drain originally created a limited-edition sculpture, Shark Tooth (Mauled), to support the mission and artist-centered programs of Cannonball. A long-time fan of the organization and a part-time resident of Miami, Drain captures the histories and mythologies of the sea with this bronze shark tooth. Cast from a real, and

Jim Drain frighteningly large, shark tooth, each piece bears Shark Tooth (Mauled), 2015 Bronze the impression of4h xthe 3w in artist's teeth—Drain literally bit each mold—rendering each Edition 58 of 60 edition unique. Continuing his playful investigation of materials, Drain's Shark Tooth (Mauled) cleverly blends personal childhood fantasies with universal fascinations and fears of the unknown that lurks just below the surface.

Martha Friedman Knobs, 2015 C-print 40 x 30 inches, edition of 12

This edition was produced in conjunction with Martha Friedman’s 2015 exhibition Pore.

Gonzalo Fuenmayor Alibi, 2013 Lambda print on metallic glossy paper 9 x 12 inches, edition of 50

Originally commissioned by Cannonball

Liam Gillick Horizon, 2010 Archival inkjet print 18 x 12 inches Edition of 50

This edition was produced on the occasion of Locust Projects’ launch of its first “Out of the Box” billboard project in December 2010 supported by a grant by the Knight Foundation. The Horizon edition is representative of Gillick’s extensive graphic works derived from medieval woodcuts which have been an integral part of his practice since the early 1990s.

Kate Gilmore By Any Means (Aftermath), 2009 Archival print on Harman gloss FD AL 24 x 28 inches, Edition of 15

This edition was produced in conjunction with Kate Gilmore’s site-specific exhibition at Locust Projects by the same name in 2009. In “By Any Means,” 2009, Gilmore, donned in feminine dress and heels, digs, builds and climbs her way out of a dirt-filled wooden sculpture in back lot at Locust.

Felice Grodin YT-1300 492727, 201 Silkscreen on archival paper 20 x 14 inches Edition of 35

Felice Grodin, born in Bologna, Italy, currently lives and works in Miami Beach.

Adler Guerrier Untitled (ag-cbcsa), 2013

Adler Guerrier’s work presents a narrative conscious of the stratified presences that make place, a narrative told through the relations of objects, forms, and the envelopes that contain the voice, noise, music, image and language that make the urban landscape singular and worth considering.

Edition originally produced by Cannonball.

Drew Heitzler Untitled (Scarface X), 2010 Inkjet on watercolor paper, 10 x 8 inches, edition of 10

Untitled was produced in conjunction with Los Angeles- based artist and filmmaker Drew Heitzler. Heitzler's 2010 installation that focused on a two-channel video projection that explores the 1932 film Scarface.

Jiae Hwang Left: Multidimensional Map of Air, 2013 | Right: Multidimensional Map of Invisible Sky, 2013 4 x 4 inches each Edition originally produced by Cannonball

Jillian Mayer Homemade Laptop Case (Pink), 2013 C-print 20 x 30 inches, edition of 25, 5 AP

Homemade Laptop Case was produced in conjunction with Mayer’s 2013 exhibition Precipice/PostModem, which featured sculptural and installation work satirically exploring the concept of a technological singularity, the theoretical moment in time when the boundary between human and machine no longer exists. Mayer uses comedy as a means to inspire introspection about technology’s place as a surrogate for spirituality in our lives, and implies that it is quickly becoming much more, regardless of whether or not the predictions of futurists like Ray Kurzweil come to fruition.

Shikeith The Language Must Not Sweat, 2019

New limited edition produced in conjunction with upcoming exhibition by artist and filmmaker Shikeith. The Language Must Not Sweat. The Language Must Not Sweat, a five-channel video installation titled after an expression Toni Morrison used in a 1981 interview, mines what puddles at the core of the public and subconscious lives of black men. This immersive- installation ponders the symbolic moisture of blackness at the intersections of queerness and masculinity.

Phillip Smith Balance, 2015 Edition of 10

The curious and psychologically-charged images in Smith’s new works are drawn from found imagery in 1950s Cold War spy manuals, lingerie ads, books on mysticism and numerology, lost magic books and early genetic diagrams. Smith works the canvas like a physicist’s blackboard where he can postulate new image formulations and equations. The result is a disorienting universe characteristic of Smith’s long association with both pop culture and metaphysical practices.

Frances Trombly Twill, 2014 Silkscreen on archival paper 14 x 20 inches, edition of 30

In this print design Trombly uses the printing process in the same way that she produces her sculptural fabric works. The patterning of horizontal and vertical lines are similar to the layering that develops in a weaving. These lines expose the printing process revealing each layer printed. Yet, keeping an overlap where a twill is created. The artist’s hope is that the print is an emphasis on process, production and the making.

Simón Vega Crom@crópolis, 2014 Digital print on archival paper, 14 x 20 inches, edition of 50

Crom@crópolis was produced in conjunction with Vega's exhibition "Sub- tropical Social Sculptures" on view at Locust Projects from November 15, 2014-January 2015.

Agustina Woodgate 1111, 2011

Conceived specifically for Locust Projects, the edition 1111 refers to the artist’s Artt on the Move projects of a series of displaced landscapes that create surreal inversions of exterior and interior spaces.

Agustina Woodgate has most recently been selected to participate in the 2019 Whitney Biennial.

Trenton Doyle Hancock The Year, 2009

Special offer of portfolio of etchings courtesy Trenton Doyle Hancock and James Cohan Gallery. Trenton Doyle Hancock will be the featured artist at Locust Projects Nov 2019- Feb 2020.

In addition to the narrative tradition of his religious upbringing, Trenton Doyle Hancock immersed himself in graphic novels, comics, and Greek mythology; at the age of ten, he began creating characters as articulations of his experience as a Black youth in small-town Paris, Texas. In The Moundverse, Hancock has developed an extensive cast: altruistic Mounds, destructive Vegans, and mutated Bringbacks; TorpedoBoy is a tragically flawed hero who serves as the artist's alter ego; Undom Endgle is a color-wielding goddess who protects young souls, representing the force of the Black women who have affected and supported Hancock over the years. These characters and others explore timeless polarities like good and evil alongside related issues of race, class, identity, politics, and social justice.

Using the fantastical to grapple with the deeply personal has long been at the core of Hancock's artistic practice. Formally, this is seen in what the artist calls his “rough and tumble” aesthetic: Richly colored tactile surfaces are loaded with objects that range from bottle caps that the artist played with in childhood to bits and pieces of older works that have been rebirthed to create something entirely new. Drawing heavily from the temporal structure of comics, Hancock’s practice seamlessly weaves storylines spanning long periods of time, often within a single artwork. The totality of his practice can be seen as an ever-expanding graphic novel in its own right, articulated through a variety of media.

Laced with personal memoir, Hancock's Moundverse is a metaphorical space that reflects the everyday world. Several works show TorpedoBoy in mid-stride, clad in football gear, wearing his “cutty black shoes” as he runs from evil-natured Vegans that at times take the aggregated form of a goofy-footed, cloaked member of the Ku Klux Klan (the Paris, Texas, of Hancock's youth had an active Klan). The malignant force that reaches for this distraught—albeit defiant—central character points to longstanding concerns of systematic racism and oppression.

ABOUT THE ARTIST Trenton Doyle Hancock (b. 1974, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) grew up in Paris, Texas. Hancock was featured in the 2000 and 2002 Whitney Biennial exhibitions, becoming one of the youngest artists in history to participate in this prestigious survey. In 2014, his exhibition Skin & Bones: 20 Years of Drawing was presented at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, and traveled to Akron Art Museum; the Studio Museum in Harlem; and Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art. A solo exhibition of his work, Mind of the Mound: Critical Mass, will open at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts, in 2019. His work has been the subject of one-person exhibitions at The Ringling Museum of Art; The University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum; The Savannah College of Art and Design; The Weatherspoon Museum; The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; The Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami; Institute for Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania; Olympic Sculpture Park at the Seattle Art Museum; Fruitmarket Gallery; and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Hancock’s world has also been translated into performance in the original ballet Cult of Color: Call to Color, commissioned by Ballet Austin; and into site-specific murals for the Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Dallas and at the Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Park. The artist’s work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Whitney Museum of American Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Brooklyn Museum; The Studio Museum in Harlem; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Baltimore Museum of Art; Columbus Museum of Art; The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu; The Cooper- Hewitt National Design Museum; Dallas Museum of Art; High Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art; Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Andy Warhol Museum; and Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University.

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Spring Fling proceeds support the program at Locust Projects, Miami's experimental laboratory producing and presenting new art and ideas through artist residencies and commissioned exhibitions, grants and resources for local artists, summer art incubator for aspiring teen artists, and mobile projects and public programs on contemporary art and curatorial practice.