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Draw Them In, Paint Them Out: Trenton Doyle Hancock Confronts Philip Guston

Trenton Doyle Hancock, Step and Screw Part Too Soon Underneath the Bloody Red Moon, 2018.

Oct 16, 2025 – Mar 30, 2026
2701 N Sepulveda Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90049, USA

The Canadian-American artist Philip Guston used the white robes and pointed hoods of the Ku Klux Klan to portray blasé baddies going about their day—smoking cigarettes, grabbing coffee, filling up their gas tanks. His message: evil is woven into the fabric of the everyday. Trenton Doyle Hancock, a Black contemporary artist from Houston, has selected some of Guston’s most striking Klansmen paintings to be guests of this show, which sees him responding to the images with his own works. Also on view is Hancock’s 2014 series, “Epidemic! Presents: Step and Screw,” starring a Black superhero named Torpedo who interacts with the white-robed figures. —Elena Clavarino

Photo: Collection of Mandy and Cliff Einstein, Los Angeles

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