Schlep and Screw, Knowledge Rental Pawn Exchange Service, 2017
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas
60 x 60 x 6 in.
152.4 x 152.4 x 15.2 cm
152.4 x 152.4 x 15.2 cm
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'Schlep and Screw, Knowledge Rental Pawn Exchange Service,' 2017, is part of Hancock’s ongoing body of work that imagines a meeting between his alter-ego Torpedo Boy, a black superhero, and...
"Schlep and Screw, Knowledge Rental Pawn Exchange Service," 2017, is part of Hancock’s ongoing body of work that imagines a meeting between his alter-ego Torpedo Boy, a black superhero, and one of the buffoonish Klansmen who populated Philip Guston’s paintings.
In this work, the Klansman hands Torpedo Boy an apple as a tail-eating serpent coils around the edges of the tableau. This gesture, set against a verdant, blooming backdrop, recalls the primordial moment of exchange in Western Christian culture: the Original Sin, in which Adam and Eve are enticed to eat the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge and expelled from Paradise.
In this work, the Klansman hands Torpedo Boy an apple as a tail-eating serpent coils around the edges of the tableau. This gesture, set against a verdant, blooming backdrop, recalls the primordial moment of exchange in Western Christian culture: the Original Sin, in which Adam and Eve are enticed to eat the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge and expelled from Paradise.